Workplace Essentials (WE) Recipient Rights for Physicians
Michigan has a very prescriptive rights system for people receiving mental health services. While providers at every level of care must be informed, knowledgable and acutely aware of each recipient's rights while receiving mental health services, your role as a psychiatrist includes awareness of not only the rights, but the responsibilities of everyone working with mental health recipients, and the implications for providing appropriate care.
The seven modules in this series will provide you with basic information about rights that recipients have while recieving mental health services, your role to ensure that those rights are protected, and your responsibilities regarding those rights as well as the rights that you will need to be aware of in your daily work.
This course is intended for physicians and physician's assistants who provide psychiatric services in Michigan. While the last module references telepsychiatry, it is applicble to physicians practicing in all mental health settings and as such, focuses specifically on physicians. It covers the basic tenets of Recipient Rights protection and provides you with information necessary for telepsychiatry with special emphasis on Michigan law.
In this course, you will learn important information about Recipient Rights for people receiving mental health treatment. In each module there are some knowledge checkpoints to help you assess your learning, and at the end of each module, you will complete a quiz. When you've completed the modules psychiatrists and telepsychiatry, you'll take the final course assessment and receive your completion certificate.
The State Office of Recipient Rights created and approved the content of this course as appropriate recipient rights training for all employees who work in or are affiliated with a contracted agency of Michigan’s community mental health system, licensed psychiatric hospitals or who provide telepsychiatry services.
Through seven individual Recipient Rights Training Modules you will be provided basic knowledge specifically for physicians practicing psychiatry in Michigan.
- Recipient Rights
- Person-Centered Planning
- Abuse and Neglect
- Confidentiality; Photos, Prints, Audio Recording; Dignity and Respect; Civil, Family, Residential and Other Rights
- Seclusion and Restraint
- The Rights Process and Reporting Rights Violations
- Telepsychiatry
Have you ever wondered:
- What happens when a person receiving mental health services has a service animal?
- What rights do mental health recipients have in Person-Centered Planning?
- Who can complain on behalf of a recipient?
- What happens if a complaint is made?
These questions and many, many more are answered in this course!
You will find the course objectives within each individual module.
Andrew Silver
Andrew Silver is the Director of Education, Training and Compliance for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Recipient Rights (ORR). In his various positions at ORR he has been a rights investigator at several state hospitals, a reviewer of CMH rights protection systems, and the Director of Education and Training for the MDHHS Office of Recipient Rights. In his current position he oversees the development and implementation of MDHHS ORR training programs, the CMH assessment recipient rights compliance process, and the technical assistance activities MDHHS ORR provides to Licensed Private Hospitals, other State Departments, consumers and other stakeholders.
Beverly Sobolewski
Beverly Sobolewski is one of ORR’s four Community Rights Specialists, at MDHHS-ORR. Her focus is on the Rights system in the private hospitals, which includes the psychiatric units.
Ms. Sobolewski has more than 39 years of diversified experience in the Behavioral Health Services and Recipient Rights fields. She been in state government service 2000, serving in the Office of Recipient Rights. She is resource for rights officers in both the licensed hospital and CMH offices. Ms. Sobolewski trains new rights officers and advisors and assists consumers and rights staff in accessing and understanding the rights system. She trains advocates and recipients in the community on the rights process and how to successfully navigate the system, from complaint through appeal.
Previously, she was a recipient rights advisor at Mercy Hospital-Detroit, Southwest Counseling and Development Services (a part of DWMHA) and St. John Northeast Hospital in Detroit.
Ms. Sobolewski holds a Master’s degree in Administration with a concentration in education and training from Madonna University, in Livonia, Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
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