(1) The Director with the advice and consent of the Commissioner shall:(1) Plan, establish and maintain treatment, education, training and prevention programs as necessary or desirable in relation to Behavioral Health, Mental Health, and Substance Use Disorder;(2) Administer or supervise the administration of provisions relating to persons who suffer from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, or substance use disorder in any Territorial plan submitted for federal funding pursuant to federal health, welfare or treatment legislation;(3) Coordinate the Division’s activities and cooperate with behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders in this Territory and other states or territories, and make contracts and other joint or cooperative arrangements with Territorial, local, or private agencies in this and other states for the treatment of persons who suffer from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders or substance use disorder and for the common advancement of behavioral health, mental health, and substance use disorder;(4) Do all other acts and things necessary or convenient to execute the authority expressly granted to it;(5) Provide treatment facilities for persons who suffer from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders and substance use disorders;(6) Establish health programs for the purpose of research into and aid of methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders or substance use disorders. The programs must include:(A) Emergency treatment provided by a facility affiliated with or part of the medical service of a general hospital;(B) Inpatient treatment;(C) Intermediate treatment; and(D) Outpatient and follow-up treatment.(7) Establish comprehensive and coordinated programs for the treatment of the persons who suffer from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, or substance use disorders;(8) Supervise the administration of those services included in programs that are not administered directly, excluding programs at Virgin Islands Government Health and Hospitals Facility Corporation Board facilities unless agreed to by Memorandum of Understanding;(9) Provide such methods of administration as are necessary for the effective operation of the program;(10) Extend and improve local health services for behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders or substance use disorders throughout the Virgin Islands;(11) Cooperate with the federal government through its appropriate agency or instrumentality in developing, extending and improving behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, and substance use disorder services;(12) Investigate, by personal visit, complaints made by any patient or by any person on behalf of a patient suffering from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, or substance use disorder;(13) Visit each behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder treatment facility regularly to review the commitment procedures of all new patients admitted between visits, and review protocols and procedures related to certification of patients under sections 1024a, 1024b, 1024c, 1026 and 1027;(14) Keep records and engage in research and the gathering of relevant statistics;(15) Require reports from the administrator of any hospital or residential care facility relating to the admission, examination, diagnosis, release or discharge of any patient;(16) Apply for civil commitment of a person;(17) Consider the suitability of the facility’s rehabilitation programs in meeting the needs of a person; and(18) Prescribe the form of applications, records, reports, and medical certificates provided for under this subchapter and prescribe the information required to be contained in them.
(1) Plan, establish and maintain treatment, education, training and prevention programs as necessary or desirable in relation to Behavioral Health, Mental Health, and Substance Use Disorder;
(2) Administer or supervise the administration of provisions relating to persons who suffer from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, or substance use disorder in any Territorial plan submitted for federal funding pursuant to federal health, welfare or treatment legislation;
(3) Coordinate the Division’s activities and cooperate with behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders in this Territory and other states or territories, and make contracts and other joint or cooperative arrangements with Territorial, local, or private agencies in this and other states for the treatment of persons who suffer from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders or substance use disorder and for the common advancement of behavioral health, mental health, and substance use disorder;
(4) Do all other acts and things necessary or convenient to execute the authority expressly granted to it;
(5) Provide treatment facilities for persons who suffer from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders and substance use disorders;
(6) Establish health programs for the purpose of research into and aid of methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders or substance use disorders. The programs must include:(A) Emergency treatment provided by a facility affiliated with or part of the medical service of a general hospital;(B) Inpatient treatment;(C) Intermediate treatment; and(D) Outpatient and follow-up treatment.
(A) Emergency treatment provided by a facility affiliated with or part of the medical service of a general hospital;
(B) Inpatient treatment;
(C) Intermediate treatment; and
(D) Outpatient and follow-up treatment.
(7) Establish comprehensive and coordinated programs for the treatment of the persons who suffer from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, or substance use disorders;
(8) Supervise the administration of those services included in programs that are not administered directly, excluding programs at Virgin Islands Government Health and Hospitals Facility Corporation Board facilities unless agreed to by Memorandum of Understanding;
(9) Provide such methods of administration as are necessary for the effective operation of the program;
(10) Extend and improve local health services for behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders or substance use disorders throughout the Virgin Islands;
(11) Cooperate with the federal government through its appropriate agency or instrumentality in developing, extending and improving behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, and substance use disorder services;
(12) Investigate, by personal visit, complaints made by any patient or by any person on behalf of a patient suffering from behavioral health challenges, mental health disorders, or substance use disorder;
(13) Visit each behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder treatment facility regularly to review the commitment procedures of all new patients admitted between visits, and review protocols and procedures related to certification of patients under sections 1024a, 1024b, 1024c, 1026 and 1027;
(14) Keep records and engage in research and the gathering of relevant statistics;
(15) Require reports from the administrator of any hospital or residential care facility relating to the admission, examination, diagnosis, release or discharge of any patient;
(16) Apply for civil commitment of a person;
(17) Consider the suitability of the facility’s rehabilitation programs in meeting the needs of a person; and
(18) Prescribe the form of applications, records, reports, and medical certificates provided for under this subchapter and prescribe the information required to be contained in them.