94 STAT. 1588
PUBLIC LAW 96-398—OCT. 7, 1980 MENTAL HEALTH PROVISIONS OF STATE HEALTH PLANS
42 USC 300m-2.
SEC. 303. Section 1523(a)(1)(B) of the Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting after "the statewide health needs of the State" the following: ", including the need for mental health services in the State,". PART B—APPLICATIONS AND RELATED PROVISIONS STATE ADMINISTRATION
42 USC 9461.
Qualified State mental health authority.
Chronically mentally ill individuals, discharge monitoring. Service program.
Discharge, notification.
Prerelease consultation.
Treatment and services plan.
SEC. 305. (a) The Secretary may enter into an agreement with any qualified State mental health authority of a State under which the authority will be the exclusive agent for the State and entities within the State for purposes of the financial assistance programs authorized by title II (other than the programs authorized by sections 207 and 208). (b) For purposes of subsection (a), a qualified State mental health authority is an authority which meets the following requirements: (1) A State mental health authority shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary (A) that it is effectively implementing its State mental health services program prepared pursuant to section 301, and (B) that it, or another agency of the State, is making a good faith effort to establish and implement procedures for carrying out the requirements of paragraph (2). (2)(A) For the purpose of eliminating the overconcentration of chronically mentally ill individuals in any community or group of communities in a State, the State mental health authority of the State shall monitor the discharge and diversion of such individuals into communities by inpatient mental health facilities. (B) A State mental health authority shall administer a program of services for chronically mentally ill individuals in the State who have been discharged or diverted from inpatient mental health facilities. Such program shall include at least the following: (i) The timely notification by the inpatient mental health facilities in the State to the appropriate community mental health centers or other entities of the discharge of and the location of the residence of each chronically mentally ill individual who has given an informed consent to such notification. (ii) Before a chronically mentally ill individual is discharged from an inpatient mental health facility into a community, a prerelease consultation between the facility and the appropriate community mental health center or other entity respecting the individual if the individual has given an informed consent to such consultation. Such consultation shall take place without delaying the discharge of such individual from the mental health facility. Such consultation shall include a preliminary evaluation of the physical, mental, social, and monetary needs of the individual to be discharged, and an identification of the services and programs for which such individual is eligible. (iii) Development by each inpatient mental health facility QJ ^ written treatment and services plan for each chronically mentally ill individual who is to be discharged or who is diverted by the facility and who has given an informed consent to the development of such plan. The plan shall be
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