R432-151-3. General Provisions

(1) R432-150 also applies to a Mental Disease Facility.

(2) The Department shall consider the following to determine whether a facility is an MDF:

(a) The facility specializes in providing psychiatric care and treatment, with emphasis on active treatment programs which focus on mental disease.

(b) Fifty per cent or more of the residents in the facility have a diagnosis of mental disease (using the ICD-9-CM codes) excluding the following:

(i) 290 through 294.9 and 310 through 310.9 for senility or organic brain syndrome;

(ii) 317 through 319 for mental retardation;

(iii) 314 through 315.9 for individuals suffering impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior similar to that of mentally retarded persons; and

(iv) 309 and 316 for Adjustment Reaction or Psychic factors associated with disease classified elsewhere.

(3) A facility that is determined to be an MDF according to this rule must be licensed as a mental disease facility.

(4) When a facility census identifies 40 per cent or more of the resident population with a mental disease diagnosis, the Department may request the facility to submit a completed Utah Level of Care Survey (ULOCS).