71.24.405 - Streamlining delivery system.

Streamlining delivery system.

The department shall establish a comprehensive and collaborative effort within regional support networks and with local mental health service providers aimed at creating innovative and streamlined community mental health service delivery systems, in order to carry out the purposes set forth in RCW 71.24.400 and to capture the diversity of the community mental health service delivery system.

     The department must accomplish the following:

     (1) Identification, review, and cataloging of all rules, regulations, duplicative administrative and monitoring functions, and other requirements that currently lead to inefficiencies in the community mental health service delivery system and, if possible, eliminate the requirements;

     (2) The systematic and incremental development of a single system of accountability for all federal, state, and local funds provided to the community mental health service delivery system. Systematic efforts should be made to include federal and local funds into the single system of accountability;

     (3) The elimination of process regulations and related contract and reporting requirements. In place of the regulations and requirements, a set of outcomes for mental health adult and children clients according to chapter 71.24 RCW must be used to measure the performance of mental health service providers and regional support networks. Such outcomes shall focus on stabilizing out-of-home and hospital care, increasing stable community living, increasing age-appropriate activities, achieving family and consumer satisfaction with services, and system efficiencies;

     (4) Evaluation of the feasibility of contractual agreements between the department of social and health services and regional support networks and mental health service providers that link financial incentives to the success or failure of mental health service providers and regional support networks to meet outcomes established for mental health service clients;

     (5) The involvement of mental health consumers and their representatives. Mental health consumers and their representatives will be involved in the development of outcome standards for mental health clients under *section 5 of this act; and

     (6) An independent evaluation component to measure the success of the department in fully implementing the provisions of RCW 71.24.400 and this section.

[2001 c 323 § 19; 1999 c 10 § 11; 1995 c 96 § 2; 1994 c 259 § 2.]

Notes: *Reviser's note: Section 5 of this act was vetoed by the governor.

Purpose -- Intent -- 1999 c 10: See note following RCW 71.24.025.

Effective date -- 1995 c 96: See note following RCW 71.24.400.