12VAC35-105-1590. Clinically managed population-specific high-intensity residential services Level of care 3.3 program criteria.
A clinically managed, population-specific, high-intensity residential services program shall meet the following programmatic requirements. The program shall:
1. Provide daily clinical services that shall include a range of cognitive, behavioral, and other therapies administered on an individual and group basis, medication education and management, educational groups, and occupational or recreation activities as deemed appropriate by a credentialed addiction treatment professional and included in an assessment and treatment plan;
2. Provide daily professional addiction and mental health treatment services that may include relapse prevention, exploring interpersonal choices, peer recovery support, and development of a social network;
3. Provide services to improve the individual's ability to structure and organize the tasks of daily living and recovery. Such services shall accommodate the cognitive limitations within this population;
4. Make available medical, psychiatric, psychological, and laboratory and toxicology services through consultation or referral as indicated by the individual's condition;
5. Provide case management, including ongoing transition and continuing care planning;
6. Provide motivational interventions appropriate to the individual's stage of readiness to change and designed to address the individual's functional limitations;
7. Have direct affiliations with other easily accessible levels of care or coordinate through referral to more or less intensive levels of care and other services;
8. Provide family and caregiver treatment services as deemed appropriate by an assessment and treatment plan;
9. Utilize random drug screening to monitor progress and reinforce treatment gains;
10. Regularly monitor the individual's adherence to taking prescribed medications;
11. Make the substance use treatment program available to all individuals served by the residential care service; and
12. Make MAT available for all individuals with opioid use disorder or alcohol use disorder. Medication assisted treatment may be provided by facility staff or coordinated through alternative resources.
Statutory Authority
§§ 37.2-302 and 37.2-400 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 39, Issue 11, eff. February 17, 2023.