Montana Code Annotated
Part 4. Special Education for Exceptional Children
20-7-436. Definitions

20-7-436. Definitions. For the purposes of 20-7-435 and this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) (a) "Children's psychiatric hospital" means a freestanding hospital in Montana that:
(i) has the primary purpose of providing clinical care for children and youth whose clinical diagnosis and resulting treatment plan require in-house residential psychiatric care; and
(ii) is accredited by the joint commission on accreditation of healthcare organizations, the standards of the centers for medicare and medicaid services, or other comparable accreditation.
(b) The term does not include programs for children and youth for whom the treatment of chemical dependency is the primary reason for treatment.
(2) "Eligible child" means a Montana resident child or youth who is less than 19 years of age and who has an emotional problem that is so severe that the child or youth has been placed in a children's psychiatric hospital or residential treatment facility for inpatient treatment of emotional problems.
(3) (a) "Residential treatment facility" means a facility in the state that:
(i) provides services for children or youth with emotional disturbances;
(ii) operates for the primary purpose of providing residential psychiatric care to individuals under 21 years of age;
(iii) is licensed by the department of public health and human services; and
(iv) participates in the Montana medicaid program for psychiatric facilities or programs providing psychiatric services to individuals under 21 years of age; or
(v) notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (3)(a)(iii) and (3)(a)(iv), has received a certificate of need from the department of public health and human services pursuant to Title 50, chapter 5, part 3, prior to January 1, 1993.
(b) The term does not include programs for children and youth for whom the treatment of chemical dependency is the primary reason for treatment.
History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 765, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 375, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 34, Ch. 18, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 50, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 70, Ch. 546, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 479, L. 2003.

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