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Capacity
and Demand Study for Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital and Community
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Requires
the Department of Social and Health Services, in consultation with
the appropriate committees of the legislature, to assess the
current and needed residential capacity for crisis response and
ongoing treatment services for persons in need of treatment for
mental disorders and chemical dependency. In addition to considering
the demand for persons with either a mental disorder or chemical
dependency, the assessment shall consider the demand for services
for mentally ill offenders, and persons with co-occurring disorders,
mental disorders caused by traumatic brain injury or dementia, and
drug induced psychosis.
Authorization: Chapter 166, Laws of 2004, Sections 22
Type of Report: Annual
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Report
Date:
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December
2004 (PDF)
September 2005 (PDF)
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Expanding
Community Services
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Requires
the department to report to the appropriate committees of the legislature
on its plans for and progress toward achieving the objectives set
forth in (c) of this subsection.
(c) Requires the department to see to reduce the census of the two
state psychiatric hospitals by 120 beds by April 2003 by arranging
and providing community residential, mental health, and other support
services for long-term state hospital patients.
Authorization: Chapter 7, Laws of 2001, Sections 204(1)(d),
204(2)(e); 206(6) and 206(7)
Type of Report: Multiple
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Report
Date:
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November
2002 (PDF) |
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Federal Medicaid Funds for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment for Children |
Requires the department to report to the appropriate committees of the legislature on the feasibility, costs, benefits, and time frame to access federal medicaid funds for mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Authorization: Chapter 504, Laws of 2005, Sections 102
Type of Report: One-Time |
Report Date: |
December 2005 (PDF) |
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Forensic Competency Evaluation and Restoration - Strategies to Minimize Waiting Periods |
Requires the department to report to the legislature with an analysis of several alternative strategies for addressing increases in forensic population and minimizing waiting periods for competency evaluation and restoration. The report shall discuss, at a minimum, the costs and advantages of, and barriers to co-locating professional persons in jails, performing restoration treatment in less restrictive alternatives than the state hospitals, and the use of regional jail facilities to accomplish competency evaluation and restoration.
Authorization: Chapter 504, Laws of 2005, Sections 506(2)
Type of Report: One-Time |
Report Date: |
June 2006 (PDF) |
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JLARC
Mental Health System Performance Audit Report
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Requires
the department to submit a report to the legislature on the status
of implementation of the recommendations made in the Joint Legislative
Audit and Review Committee (JLARC) Performance Audit of the Mental
Health system.
Authorization: RCW 71.24.820
Type of Report: Annual
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Report
Date:
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June
2002 (PDF)
June 2003 (PDF) |
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Mental
Health System Administrative Reduction Study
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Directs
the department to work with appropriate stakeholders to complete
a plan to reduce mental health system administrative expenses to
ten percent of available funds and make recommendations to the Governor
and the legislature by October 1, 2002.
Authorization: Chapter
323, Laws of 2001, Section 20 Partial Veto
Type of Report: One-Time
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Report
Date:
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October
2002 (PDF) |
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Mentally
Ill Offender Community Transition Program (MIO-CTP)
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Outcomes
of specialized access and services to mentally ill offenders upon
release from total confinement who meet service program entrance
criteria.
Authorization:
RCW 71.24.460
Type of Report: Annual
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Report
Date:
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December
2001 (PDF)
December 2002 (PDF)
December 2003 (PDF)
December 2004 During the 2003-2005 fiscal biennium, the requirement is suspended that the department issue the reports required by the following statutes; however, the department shall continue to maintain any required data.
December 2005 (PDF)
December 2006 (PDF)
December 2007 (PDF)
December 2008 (PDF)
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Prevalence
of Serious Mental Illness in Washington State
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This
report presents the results of a study of the prevalence of serious
mental illness in Washington State.
Authorization: Chapter 7, Laws of 2001, Section 204(5)(c) and Chapter
25, Laws of 2003, Section 204(5)(b)
Type of Report: Annual
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Report
Date:
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December
2003 (PDF) |
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Protocols:
County Designated Mental Health Professionals
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An update
of the state-wide protocols for professional persons and county
designated mental health professionals in administration of Chapter
71.05.214 and 10.77 RCW. These protocols provide uniform development
and application of criteria in evaluation and commitment recommendations,
of persons who have, or are alleged to have mental disorders and
are subject to Chapter 71.05 RCW.
Authorization: RCW 71.05.214
Type of Report: Every three years
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Report
Date:
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September
2002 (PDF)
September 2005 (PDF) |
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RSN
Administration of a Portion of Funds Appropriated to State Psychiatric
Hospitals
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Requires
the department to submit a report to the appropriate committees
of the Senate and House of Representatives on the efforts to implement
this Section 17 by October 1, 2002. Sec. 17: Prohibits the department
from determining the roles and responsibilities of county authorities
as to each other under regional support networks by rule, except
to assure that all duties required of regional support networks
are assigned and that counties and the regional support network
do not duplicate functions and that a single authority has final
responsibility for all available resources and performance under
the regional support network's contract with the Secretary.
Authorization: RCW
71.24.300(I)(e)
Type of Report: One-Time
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Report
Date:
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October
2002 (PDF) |
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Statewide
Mental Health Performance Indicators
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Requires
the department to provide a report to the appropriate committees
of the legislature on the development and implementation of the
use of performance measures by October 2002.
Authorization: Chapter
7, Laws of 2001, Section 204(5)(b), Uncodified
Type of Report: One-Time
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Report
Date:
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October
2002 (PDF) |
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Status
of Implementation of the August 2002 JLARC Recommendation Regarding
Children's Mental Health
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Requires
the department to provide a report to the appropriate committees
of the legislature in 2002 JLARC produced a study of the public
mental health system for children and the recommendation for improvements
to services and system performance, including the need for performance
and client outcome measures. The report provides preliminary details
of tasks and activities undertaken by the department, with the assistance
of OSPI to implement the statutory of RCW 71.35.040 to implement
four of the JLARC Children's Mental Health Study recommendations
Authorization: 71.36.050(1)
Type of Report:
One-Time
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Report
Date:
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June 2006 (PDF)
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Workplace
Safety in State Hospitals
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Chapter 72.23 RCW requires each state hospital to develop a plan to reasonably prevent and protect their employees from violence at those hospitals and directs the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to provide an annual report to the legislature on efforts to reduce violence in the hospitals.
Authorization: Chapter 187, L05, Sec. 1 and RCW
72.23.450
Type of Report: Annual
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Report
Date:
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September
2002 (PDF)
September 2005 (PDF)
December 2006 (PDF)
September 2007 (PDF)
September 2008 (PDF)
September 2009 (PDF)
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State Hospital Ward Sizes, Discharge Practices & Community Placement Issues |
Chapter 329, Laws of 2008, Section 204(4c) requires the department to report on ward sizes at Eastern and Western State Hospitals and patient case mix by ward; discharge practices for state hospitals to include the Child Study and Treatment Center and community placements to include placements for adults and children.
Authorization: Chapter 329, Laws of 2008, Section 204(4c)
Type of Report: One time |
Report Date: |
March 2009 |
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System Transformation Initiative |
Requires the department to provide an update to the legislature on the following four areas of planning and studies:
- Preparation of a plan for the expansion of housing options for people with persistent mental health illness
- The development of a utilization management system to assure people receive appropriate levels and durations of inpatient care
- A review of the state's involuntary commitment statute
- A study of alternative approaches to establishing Medicaid managed care rates with particular emphasis on approaches that emphasize defined benefit levels and risk adjustment.
Authorization: Chapter 333, Laws of 2006 & Chapter 372 Section 204(i)(j) Laws of 2006
Type of Report: One Time
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Report Date: |
January 2008 (PDF) |
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Consumer Directed Mental Health Care |
Substitute House Bill 2654 directed the department to prepare a report on strategies for developing consumer and family run services.
Authorization: SHB 2654, Section1
Type of Report: Every 3 years |
Report Date: |
January 2009 (PDF)
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Co-Occurring Disorders Among DSHS Clients |
Section 601 (2) of the Omnibus Treatment of Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders Act of 2005 directed the department to adopt an integrated and comprehensive screening and assessment process to identify indications of mental illness, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders (COD). This also required the use of a screening tool that can be used by intake personnel system-wide and which will identify the most common types of co-occurring disorders.
Authorization: Section 601(2), OmnibusTreatment of Mental & Substance Abuse Disorders Action of 2005
Type of Report: One time |
Report Date: |
December 2008 (PDF) |
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