Safety
20 Seconds
What is the recommended length of time to wash your hands to prevent the spread of infections at work and at home?
Individually-identifiable health information held by a mental health program.
What is PHI (private health information). Information that relates to a person's past, present or future physical or mental condition.
Chapter 34
What is the Mental Health Rehabilitation Services (MHRS) Certification Standards in DC. Chapter 63 is the Substance Use Disorders Treatment and Recovery Certification Standards.
8
What is the number of schools where LAYC has partnerships for school-based mental health?
OSHA
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act Administration. Federal agency charged with ensuring healthful working conditions for workers?
42 CFR Part 2
What is the Portion of the Code of Federal Regulations governing privacy of individuals receiving substance use disorders treatment. It is more strict that HIPAA and requires a patient's written consent before making a disclosure of protected records. (Unlike HIPAA once a record is disclosed, the recipient is now bound by Part 2's privacy and security requirements.)
85
What is the number of policies required by DBH for LAYC to be certified for MHRS and SUD services?
November
What is the month with the most birthdays of Social Services team members?
Jessica November 1, Taylor November 5, Elizabeth November 18, Tyvon November 25
Universal precautions is an approach to infection control to treat all human blood and certain human body fluids as if they were known to be infectious for HIV, HBV and other bloodborne pathogens
What are Universal Precautions?
The age after which children must consent to the release of mental health information.
What is 14? For children 14 years of age and older, the child as well as the parent or legal guardian must authorize the release of mental health information.
Staff Corner
What is the location of LAYC's policies? Includes Employee Handbook, LAYC Safety Policies and Procedures, Suicide Intervention Guidelines and COVID-Policies.
Housing Department
What LAYC department used to be part of Social Services?
3045 15th Street, NW.
LAYC Housing Department. The Alternative site for Social Services operations in the event of an emergency or natural disaster
Minimum Necessary
What is the best practice when disclosing PHI? We should limit protected health information to the minimum necessary to accomplish the intended purpose of the use, disclosure or request.
Who should you ask if you have questions about policies related to mental health/sud treatment services? Supervisors can in turn ask director, director will ask provider relations specialist at DBH.
Green
What is the assigned color for the Social Services Department? (Bonus question: what are the colors of the other LAYC departments?)