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CHAPTER 85

 
H.P. 1060 - L.D. 1515

 
Resolve, To Establish a Responsive, Community-based,

 
Cost-effective and Comprehensive Adult Mental Health System

 
Sec. 1. AMHI Consent Decree Plan and system transformation plan. Resolved: That
the Department of Health and Human Services shall ensure that the
plan presented for court approval to achieve compliance with the
Augusta Mental Health Institute Consent Decree Plan and that the
system transformation plan as referenced in Public Law 2005,
chapter 12, Part XXX are consumer-directed, community-based and
comprehensive. Any plan development must be done in
collaboration with a working group inclusive of consumers,
families, providers and advocates. The plan must address, at a
minimum, service delivery structures, service options, financing
of those services, quality assurance and quality improvement
strategies to be reflected as part of the management of the
system. The plan must also address the development of a local
system to ensure continuity of care and to identify utilization
management strategies for all components of the mental health
system as referenced in section 3; and be it further

 
Sec. 2. System values and standards. Resolved: That the system for adult
mental health services must be based on those values and
standards already adopted by this State so that:

 
1. All services and support promote recovery and resiliency;

 
2. Planning and services are consumer-driven, holistic,
flexible and strength-based;


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