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-# mental-health-outpatient
+# Mental Health Outpatient Services Quality Management System
 
-A comprehensive QMS template designed for outpatient mental health clinics, counseling centers, and behavioral health practices.
+A comprehensive QMS template designed for outpatient mental health clinics, counseling centers, and behavioral health practices.
+
+## 🧠 Designed For
+
+- **Community Mental Health Centers** - Publicly funded outpatient services
+- **Private Psychiatric Practices** - Outpatient psychiatry and medication management
+- **Counseling and Therapy Centers** - Individual, group, and family therapy
+- **Child/Adolescent Mental Health** - Pediatric outpatient behavioral health
+- **Substance Abuse Treatment** - Outpatient addiction services
+- **Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP)** - Structured day treatment
+- **Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP)** - Day hospital services
+
+## 📋 Regulatory Framework
+
+This template supports compliance with:
+
+- **The Joint Commission** - Behavioral Health Care accreditation
+- **CARF** - Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
+- **State Mental Health Authority** - State licensing and certification
+- **HIPAA** - Mental health information privacy
+- **42 CFR Part 2** - Substance abuse treatment confidentiality
+- **State Licensing Boards** - Psychologist, social worker, counselor regulations
+- **Medicare/Medicaid** - Outpatient mental health billing requirements
+- **APA Practice Guidelines** - Evidence-based treatment standards
+- **SAMHSA** - Substance abuse treatment guidelines
+
+## Repository Structure
+
+```
+├── SOPs/
+│   ├── Intake-Assessment/     # Referral, intake, diagnostic evaluation
+│   ├── Treatment/             # Therapy protocols, medication management
+│   ├── Crisis-Management/     # Crisis response, safety planning, hospitalization
+│   ├── Documentation/         # Progress notes, treatment plans, outcomes
+│   ├── Compliance/            # Consent, confidentiality, records
+│   └── General/               # Document control, training, CAPA
+├── Forms/
+│   ├── Intake-Forms/          # Registration, consent, authorization, history
+│   ├── Assessment-Tools/      # PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT, depression/anxiety scales
+│   ├── Treatment-Plans/       # Initial and updated treatment plan templates
+│   ├── Safety-Plans/          # Crisis plans, safety contracts
+│   ├── Progress-Notes/        # Session documentation templates
+│   └── Training/              # Competency assessments
+├── Policies/                  # Practice policies
+├── Work-Instructions/         # Step-by-step procedures
+└── Templates/                 # Document templates
+```
+
+## Document Numbering Convention
+
+- **POL-XXX**: Policies
+- **SOP-INT-XXX**: Intake/Assessment SOPs
+- **SOP-TX-XXX**: Treatment SOPs
+- **SOP-CRS-XXX**: Crisis Management SOPs
+- **SOP-DOC-XXX**: Documentation SOPs
+- **SOP-CMP-XXX**: Compliance SOPs
+- **WI-XXX**: Work Instructions
+- **FRM-XXX**: Forms and Records
+
+## 🤖 AI-Powered Assistance
+
+This repository includes **AtomicAI**, your outpatient mental health QMS assistant. Mention `@atomicai` in any issue or pull request to:
+
+- Draft intake and assessment procedures
+- Create treatment protocols for specific conditions
+- Generate crisis intervention and safety planning SOPs
+- Develop progress note documentation standards
+- Create consent and confidentiality procedures
+- Review documents for accreditation compliance
+
+### Example Prompts
+
+- "@atomicai create an SOP for psychiatric intake evaluation"
+- "@atomicai draft a crisis intervention and safety planning protocol"
+- "@atomicai write a progress note documentation standard per billing requirements"
+- "@atomicai create a treatment plan template for depression"
+- "@atomicai develop a no-show and missed appointment policy"
+- "@atomicai create a telehealth informed consent procedure"
+
+## Getting Started
+
+1. **Establish Consent Procedures** - Configure informed consent and authorization forms
+2. **Standardize Assessments** - Implement validated screening tools
+3. **Define Documentation Standards** - Set up progress note and treatment plan templates
+4. **Create Crisis Protocols** - Establish safety planning and escalation procedures
+5. **Train Clinicians** - Use competency assessment forms
+
+## Key Documents to Create First
+
+1. **Intake Assessment SOP** - Standardized evaluation process
+2. **Treatment Planning Policy** - Individualized treatment plan requirements
+3. **Crisis Response Procedure** - Suicidal/homicidal ideation management
+4. **Safety Plan Template** - Client crisis planning tool
+5. **Progress Note Standards** - Documentation requirements for sessions
+6. **Informed Consent Forms** - Treatment consent, HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2
+7. **Telehealth Policy** - Virtual care protocols and consent
+
+## Special Considerations for Outpatient Mental Health
+
+### Intake and Assessment
+- Referral management and triage
+- Comprehensive diagnostic evaluation
+- Validated screening instruments
+- Treatment matching and level of care
+- Insurance authorization
+
+### Treatment Services
+- Evidence-based therapy protocols
+- Medication evaluation and management
+- Group therapy programming
+- Family and couples therapy
+- Care coordination with other providers
+
+### Crisis Management
+- Suicide risk assessment
+- Safety planning
+- Crisis hotline resources
+- Hospitalization criteria and procedures
+- Post-crisis follow-up
+
+### Documentation and Compliance
+- HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 requirements
+- Progress note medical necessity
+- Treatment plan updates
+- Outcome measurement
+- Supervision and peer review
+
+---
+
+*This template is maintained by AtomicQMS. For questions, open an issue in this repository.*