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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".14" citation="COMAR 10.21.17.14" title_num="10" subtitle_num="21" chapter_num="17" heading="Staff Credentials, Competencies, and Privileges.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The program director shall ensure that staff and consultants perform only those duties for which the staff and consultants have the appropriate credentials and competencies according to the provisions of this regulation.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Staff Credentials. The program director shall ensure that the program has in effect a process for reviewing credentials that requires the program to collect, verify, review, and document the following information:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Education;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If required, primary source verification of licenses or certification under Health Occupations Article, Annotated Code of Maryland, to practice a health occupation; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Documentation of professional liability insurance that is carried either individually or through the program.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Staff Competencies. The program director, in consultation, if appropriate, with the medical director, clinical director, or program psychiatrist, shall develop and implement:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A process by which the program reviews and evaluates:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Education, credentials, and additional training;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Relevant work experience, including experience with populations served by the program, including but not limited to:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Adults with serious and persistent mental illness;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Elderly individuals with mental illness; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Competencies required to perform the services rendered;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A system to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke privileges to perform specific services; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Methods for periodic review of credentials and competencies.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Staff Criminal Conduct.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If a staff member is charged with a crime that involves abuse of an individual, or individuals served by the program, the governing body, board of directors, or advisory committee, whichever applies, shall have a process to determine, without the participation of the staff member in interest, whether the staff member can continue to provide services.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If the governing body, board of directors, or advisory committee, whichever applies, determines that the staff member may continue to provide services, the governing body, board of directors, or advisory committee, whichever applies, shall determine the capacity in which the staff member may continue to provide services until the charges are resolved.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>