Section R. 330.2067 - Community mental health board responsibilitiesRule 2067. A community mental health board shall do all of the following:
(a) Ensure that a person is not denied service on the basis of race, color, nationality, religious or political belief, sex, age, handicap, county of residence, or ability to pay. This policy shall be stated in the program statements of the community mental health board and in contractual agreements.(b) Operate under personnel practices that do not discriminate against an employee or an applicant for employment with respect to hiring, tenure, terms, conditions or privileges of employment, or any matter which is directly or indirectly related to employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, handicap, or sex, except if a requirement of age or sex is based on a bona fide occupational qualification.(c) Report to the department on the types and scopes of services directly operated by the board, on services provided by contract with the board, and on expenditures and receipts on forms prescribed and furnished by the department.(d) Require agencies which provide services by contract or agreement with the board and which receive state aid to furnish the board with an accounting of fee revenue received from patients or from persons paying on behalf of patients.(e) Coordinate the board's services with other pertinent human services to ensure that the total needs of the population of the service area are met in a comprehensive manner without fragmentation or duplication of services. To accomplish this, a board shall do all of the following:(i) Participate in community and regional planning, including health systems planning.(ii) Establish, or cause to be established, continuity of care agreements between appropriate service entities and with appropriate agencies which provide services to the population served by the boards, including department facilities.(iii) If possible, provide the mental health component of health services established in the service area by health maintenance organizations and community health centers.(iv) If possible, collaborate with existing agencies rather than establishing competing services.(f) Assure, on an annual basis, that none of its board members is in violation of the conflict of interest prohibition of section 222 of the act.(g) Assure that each employee is made aware of the provisions concerning conflict of interest and attests to the absence of conflict of interest, and assure that each prospective employee is made aware of these provisions and is not offered employment if there is a conflict of interest as identified in Act No. 317 of the Public Acts of 1968, as amended, being S15.321 et seq. of the Michigan Compiled Laws.(h) Require each of its contracts to contain mutual representations that, to the best of the respective parties knowledge, the entering into of the contract is free of conflict of interest as identified in Act No.317 of the Public Acts of 1968, as amended, being S15.321 et seq. of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and section 222 of the act.Mich. Admin. Code R. 330.2067
1979 AC; 1981 AACS; 1986 AACS