51.01(6)
(6) "Director" means the person in charge of a state treatment facility, state or local treatment center, or approved private facility.
51.01(7)
(7) "Discharge" of a patient who is under involuntary commitment orders means a termination of custody and treatment obligations of the patient to the authority to which the patient was committed by court action. The "discharge" of a patient who is voluntarily admitted to a treatment program or facility means a termination of treatment obligations between the patient and the treatment program or facility.
51.01(8)
(8) "Drug dependent" means a person who uses one or more drugs to the extent that the person's health is substantially impaired or his or her social or economic functioning is substantially disrupted.
51.01(10)
(10) "Inpatient facility" means a public or private hospital or unit of a hospital which has as its primary purpose the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of mental illness, developmental disability, alcoholism or drug abuse and which provides 24-hour care.
51.01(11)
(11) "Law enforcement officer" means any person who by virtue of the person's office or public employment is vested by law with the duty to maintain public order or to make arrests for crimes while acting within the scope of the person's authority.
51.01(12)
(12) "Mental health institute" means any institution operated by the department for specialized psychiatric services, research, education, and which is responsible for consultation with community programs for education and quality of care.
51.01(13)(a)(a) "Mental illness" means mental disease to such extent that a person so afflicted requires care and treatment for his or her own welfare, or the welfare of others, or of the community.
51.01(13)(b)
(b) "Mental illness", for purposes of involuntary commitment, means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory which grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life, but does not include alcoholism.
51.01(14)
(14) "Residence", "legal residency" or "county of residence" has the meaning given under
s. 49.001 (6).
51.01(15)
(15) "State treatment facility" means any of the institutions operated by the department for the purpose of providing diagnosis, care or treatment for mental or emotional disturbance, developmental disability, alcoholism or drug dependency and includes but is not limited to mental health institutes.
51.01(16)
(16) "Transfer" means the movement of a patient or resident between approved treatment facilities or to or from an approved treatment facility and the community.
51.01(17)
(17) "Treatment" means those psychological, educational, social, chemical, medical or somatic techniques designed to bring about rehabilitation of a mentally ill, alcoholic, drug dependent or developmentally disabled person.
51.01(18)
(18) "Treatment director" means the person who has primary responsibility for the treatment provided by a treatment facility. The term includes the medical director of a facility.
51.01(19)
(19) "Treatment facility" means any publicly or privately operated facility or unit thereof providing treatment of alcoholic, drug dependent, mentally ill or developmentally disabled persons, including but not limited to inpatient and outpatient treatment programs, community support programs and rehabilitation programs.
51.02
51.02
Council on mental health. 51.02(1)
(1) The council on mental health shall have the following duties:
51.02(1)(a)
(a) Advise the department, the legislature and the governor on the use of state and federal resources and on the provision and administration of programs for persons who are mentally ill or who have other mental health problems, for groups who are not adequately served by the mental health system, for the prevention of mental health problems and for other mental health related purposes.
51.02(1)(b)
(b) Provide recommendations to the department on the expenditure of federal funds received under the community mental health block grant under
42 USC 300x to
300x-9 and participate in the development of and monitor and evaluate the implementation of, the community mental health block grant plan.
51.02(1)(c)
(c) Review all departmental plans for services affecting persons with mental illness and monitor the implementation of the plans.
51.02(1)(d)
(d) Serve as an advocate for persons with mental illness.
51.02(1)(f)
(f) Consult with the department in the development of a model community mental health plan under
s. 51.42 (7) (a) 9., and review and advise the department on community mental health plans submitted by counties under
s. 51.42 (3) (ar) 5.
51.02(1)(g)
(g) Promote the development and administration of a delivery system for community mental health services that is sensitive to the needs of consumers of the services.
51.02(1)(h)
(h) Review and comment on the human services and community programs board member training curriculum developed by the department under
s. 51.42 (7) (a) 3m.
51.02(2)
(2) The secretary shall submit all departmental plans affecting persons with mental illness to the council for its review. The council shall provide its recommendations to the secretary within such time as the secretary may require.
51.03
51.03
Department; powers and duties. 51.03(1g)(a)
(a) "Early intervention" means action to hinder or alter a person's mental disorder or abuse of alcohol or other drugs in order to reduce the duration of early symptoms or to reduce the duration or severity of mental illness or alcohol or other drug abuse that may result.
51.03(1g)(b)
(b) "Individualized service planning" means a process under which a person with mental illness or who abuses alcohol or other drugs and, if a child, his or her family, receives information, education and skills to enable the person to participate mutually and creatively with his or her mental health or alcohol or other drug abuse service provider in identifying his or her personal goals and developing his or her assessment, crisis protocol, treatment and treatment plan. "Individualized service planning" is tailored to the person and is based on his or her strengths, abilities and needs.
51.03(1g)(c)
(c) "Prevention" means action to reduce the instance, delay the onset or lessen the severity of mental disorder, before the disorders may progress to mental illness, by reducing risk factors for, enhancing protections against and promptly treating early warning signs of mental disorder.
51.03(1g)(d)
(d) "Recovery" means the process of a person's growth and improvement, despite a history of mental illness or alcohol or other drug abuse, in attitudes, feelings, values, goals, skills and behavior and is measured by a decrease in dysfunctional symptoms and an increase in maintaining the person's highest level of health, wellness, stability, self-determination and self-sufficiency.
51.03(1g)(e)
(e) "Stigma" means disqualification from social acceptance, derogation, marginalization and ostracism encountered by persons with mental illness or persons who abuse alcohol or other drugs as the result of societal negative attitudes, feelings, perceptions, representations and acts of discrimination.
51.03(1r)
(1r) The department through its authorized agents may visit or investigate any treatment facility to which persons are admitted or committed under this chapter.
51.03(2)
(2) No later than 14 days after the date of a death reported under
s. 51.64 (2) (a), the department shall investigate the death.
51.03(3)(a)(a) Beginning on September 1, 1996, the department shall collect and analyze information in this state on each of the following:
51.03(3)(a)3.
3. The number of, cost of and paying sources for days of inpatient mental health treatment that result from the commitments initiated under
subd. 1. or ordered under
subd. 2.
51.03(3)(a)5.
5. The number of persons who are receiving care and treatment under community support programs voluntarily or under commitments ordered under
s. 51.20 (13).
51.03(3)(b)
(b) By April 1, 1997, and annually by that date for 3 years thereafter, the department shall submit a report to the legislature under
s. 13.172 (2) on the information collected under
par. (a).
51.03(4)
(4) Within the limits of available state and federal funds, the department may do all of the following:
51.03(4)(a)
(a) Promote the creation of coalitions among the state, counties, providers of mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services, consumers of the services and their families and advocates for persons with mental illness and for alcoholic and drug dependent persons to develop, coordinate and provide a full range of resources to advance prevention; early intervention; treatment; recovery; safe and affordable housing; opportunities for education, employment and recreation; family and peer support; self-help; and the safety and well-being of communities.
51.03(4)(b)
(b) In cooperation with counties, providers of mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services, consumers of the services, interested community members and advocates for persons with mental illness and for alcoholic and drug dependent persons, develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce stigma of and discrimination against persons with mental illness, alcoholics and drug dependent persons.
51.03(4)(c)
(c) Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to involve counties, providers of mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services, consumers of the services and their families, interested community members and advocates for persons with mental illness and for alcoholic and drug dependent persons as equal participants in service system planning and delivery.
51.03(4)(d)
(d) Promote responsible stewardship of human and fiscal resources in the provision of mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services.
51.03(4)(e)
(e) Develop and implement methods to identify and measure outcomes for consumers of mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services.
51.03(4)(f)
(f) Promote access to appropriate mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services regardless of a person's geographic location, age, degree of mental illness, alcoholism or drug dependency or availability of personal financial resources.
51.03(4)(g)
(g) Promote consumer decision making to enable persons with mental illness and alcohol or drug dependency to be more self-sufficient.
51.03(4)(h)
(h) Promote use by providers of mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services of individualized service planning, under which the providers develop written individualized service plans that promote treatment and recovery, together with service consumers, families of service consumers who are children and advocates chosen by consumers.
51.03(5)
(5) The department shall ensure that providers of mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services who use individualized service plans, as specified in
sub. (4) (h), do all of the following in using a plan:
51.03(5)(a)
(a) Establish meaningful and measurable goals for the consumer.
51.03(5)(b)
(b) Base the plan on a comprehensive assessment of the consumer's strengths, abilities, needs and preferences.
51.032
51.032
Denial and revocations of certification or approval based on tax delinquency. 51.032(1)
(1) Except as provided in
sub. (1m), the department shall require each applicant to provide the department with his or her social security number, if the applicant is an individual, or the applicant's federal employer identification number, if the applicant is not an individual, as a condition of issuing any of the following:
51.032(1m)
(1m) If an individual who applies for a certification or approval under
sub. (1) does not have a social security number, the individual, as a condition of obtaining the certification or approval, shall submit a statement made or subscribed under oath or affirmation to the department that the applicant does not have a social security number. The form of the statement shall be prescribed by the department of workforce development. A certification or approval issued in reliance upon a false statement submitted under this subsection is invalid.
51.032(2)
(2) The department may not disclose any information received under
sub. (1) to any person except to the department of revenue for the sole purpose of requesting certifications under
s. 73.0301.
51.032(3)
(3) Except as provided in
sub. (1m), the department shall deny an application for the issuance of a certification or approval specified in
sub. (1) if the applicant does not provide the information specified in
sub. (1).
51.032(4)
(4) The department shall deny an application for the issuance of a certification or approval specified in
sub. (1) or shall revoke a certification or approval specified in
sub. (1) if the department of revenue certifies under
s. 73.0301 that the applicant for or holder of a certification or approval is liable for delinquent taxes.
51.032 History
History: 1997 a. 237;
1999 a. 9.
51.038
51.038
Outpatient mental health clinic certification. Except as provided in
s. 51.032, if a facility that provides mental health services on an outpatient basis holds current accreditation from the council on accreditation of services for families and children, the department may accept evidence of this accreditation as equivalent to the standards established by the department, for the purpose of certifying the facility for the receipt of funds for services provided as a benefit to a medical assistance recipient under
s. 49.46 (2) (b) 6. f., a community aids funding recipient under
s. 51.423 (2) or as mandated coverage under
s. 632.89.
51.038 History
History: 1987 a. 27;
1997 a. 237.
51.04
51.04
Treatment facility certification. Except as provided in
s. 51.032, any treatment facility may apply to the department for certification of the facility for the receipt of funds for services provided as a benefit to a medical assistance recipient under
s. 49.46 (2) (b) 6. f. or to a community aids funding recipient under
s. 51.423 (2) or provided as mandated coverage under
s. 632.89. The department shall annually charge a fee for each certification.
51.04 History
History: 1975 c. 224; Stats. 1975 s. 51.44;
1975 c. 430 s.
53m; Stats. 1975 s. 51.04;
1983 a. 27;
1985 a. 29,
176;
1995 a. 27;
1997 a. 237.
51.05
51.05
Mental health institutes. 51.05(1)
(1)
Designation. The mental health institute located at Mendota is known as the "Mendota Mental Health Institute" and the mental health institute located at Winnebago is known as the "Winnebago Mental Health Institute". Goodland Hall West, a facility located at Mendota Mental Health Institute, is designated as the "Maximum Security Facility at Mendota Mental Health Institute". The department shall divide the state by counties into 2 districts, and may change the boundaries of these districts, arranging them with reference to the number of patients residing in them at a given time, the capacity of the institutes and the convenience of access to them.
51.05(2)
(2) Admissions authorized by counties. The department may not accept for admission to a mental health institute any resident person, except in an emergency, unless the county department under
s. 51.42 in the county where the person has legal residency authorizes the care, as provided in
s. 51.42 (3) (as). Patients who are committed to the department under s.
975.01, 1977 stats., or s.
975.02, 1977 stats., or
s. 971.14,
971.17,
975.06 or
980.06, admitted by the department under s.
975.17, 1977 stats., or are transferred from a secured correctional facility, a secured child caring institution or a secured group home to a state treatment facility under
s. 51.35 (3) or from a jail or prison to a state treatment facility under
s. 51.37 (5) are not subject to this section.
51.05(3)
(3) Admissions authorized by department. Any person who is without a county responsible for his or her care and any person entering this state through the compact established under
s. 51.75 may be accepted by the department and temporarily admitted to an institute. Such person shall be transferred to the county department under
s. 51.42 for the community where the best interests of the person can best be served, as soon as practicable.
51.05(3g)
(3g) Expense reduction. The department shall annually reduce by $500,000 the amount by which accumulated expenses of providing care to patients of the mental health institutes exceed the accumulated revenues from providing that care, until the accumulated revenues of the mental health institutes are in balance with the accumulated expenses of the mental health institutes.
51.05(3m)
(3m) Revenues and expenditures; reports. Notwithstanding
s. 20.903 (1), the department shall implement a plan that is approved by the department of administration to assure that there are sufficient revenues, as projected by the department of health and family services, to cover anticipated expenditures under the appropriation under
s. 20.435 (2) (gk) for the purpose of reimbursing the provision of care to patients of the Mendota Mental Health Institute or the Winnebago Mental Health Institute and to ensure that the department complies with
sub. (3g). The department of health and family services shall make reports to the department of administration every 3 months, beginning on October 1, 1993, concerning the implementation of this plan. The department of health and family services shall make reports to the joint committee on finance by December 31 of each year that identify the change, during the preceding fiscal year, in the amount by which the accumulated expenses of providing care to patients of the mental health institutes exceed the accumulated revenues from providing that care; describe the actions taken by the department during the preceding fiscal year to reduce that amount; and describe the actions that the department is taking during the current year to reduce that amount.
51.05(4)
(4) Transfers and discharges. The transfer or discharge of any person who is placed in a mental health institute shall be made subject to
s. 51.35.
51.05(5)
(5) School activities. If an individual over the age of 2 and under the age of 22 and eligible for special education and related services under
subch. V of ch. 115 is committed, admitted or transferred to or is a resident of the Mendota Mental Health Institute or Winnebago Mental Health Institute, the individual shall attend a school program operated by the applicable mental health institute or a school outside the applicable mental health institute which is approved by the department of public instruction. A school program operated by the Mendota Mental Health Institute or Winnebago Mental Health Institute shall be under the supervision of the department of public instruction and shall meet standards prescribed by that agency.
