{"content":[{"text":"BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INFORMATION NOTICE NO.: 20-014 \n Page 2 \n June 16, 2021","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.082955,"width":0.542708,"height":0.05569099999999999}},{"text":"BACKGROUND: \n Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-55-20 in response to the COVID-19 public \n health emergency. The Executive Order permits the California Department of Health \n Care Services (DHCS) to provide flexibility for Short-Term Residential Treatment \n Programs (STRTP), Community Residential Treatment Systems/Social Rehabilitation \n Programs (CRTS/SRP), Community Treatment Facilities (CTF), and Special Treatment \n Programs (STP) to ensure uninterrupted care. The executive order allows DHCS to \n grant some flexibility in the applicable provisions in Welfare and Institutions Code, state \n regulations, and/or policies or procedures for facilities with a mental health program \n approval (MHPA), mental health program certification, or are currently seeking an \n approval or certification.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.170101,"width":0.762312,"height":0.195098}},{"text":"POLICY: \n DHCS expects programs to take all appropriate and necessary measures to ensure \n children and adults can access all medically necessary mental health services while \n operating during the public emergency.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.37923,"width":0.7259140000000001,"height":0.07309100000000002}},{"text":"Requests for flexibility for specific state regulatory standards and requirements pursuant \n to the Executive Order will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, \n STRTPs with a MHPA operating in a county where the local Mental Health Plan (MHP) \n has the delegated authority to perform the MHPA tasks will need to submit their \n flexibility requests to DHCS, as DHCS has the granting authority.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.466351,"width":0.7622430000000001,"height":0.09054000000000001}},{"text":"Providers can submit flexibility requests to DHCS for the following programmatic and \n administrative requirements: \n Update: flexibility ends 6/30/21","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.570922,"width":0.732654,"height":0.05578799999999995}},{"text":"1.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.640619,"width":0.016430999999999987,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"Programmatic and Operational Flexibility: \n  Increasing client length of stay; \n  Adjusting mental health program staff scheduling; \n  Changing mental health programs staffing ratios; or \n  Altering socialization and group programming within the program and general \n community.","bbox":{"left":0.147098,"top":0.640619,"width":0.6987220000000001,"height":0.11202999999999996}},{"text":"2.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.766717,"width":0.016430999999999987,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"Administrative Flexibility: \n  Allowing initial facility certification through virtual review, while deferring initial on- \n site reviews; \n  Allowing renewal of certification or approval while deferring annual on-site \n reviews; \n  Submission of documentation, as part of a facilities certification or approval in lieu \n of on-site reviews; or","bbox":{"left":0.147098,"top":0.766793,"width":0.735889,"height":0.128313}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}