West Virginia § 27-1-7 Administrator and clinical director

West Virginia Statutes

§ 27-1-7 — Administrator and clinical director

West Virginia § 27-1-7

Ch. 27MENTALLY ILL PERSONS

Art. 1WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED

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Bluebook

W. Va. Code § 27-1-7 (2026).

Text

(a)The administrator of a state-operated treatment facility is its chief executive officer and has the authority to manage and administer the financial, business and personnel affairs of such facility. All other persons employed at the state-operated treatment facility are under the jurisdiction and authority of the administrator of the treatment facility who need not be a physician.

(b)The clinical director has the responsibility for decisions involving clinical and medical treatment of patients in a state-operated mental health facility. The clinical director must be a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this state who has completed training in an accredited program of post-graduate education in psychiatry.

(c)In any facility designated by the Secretary of the Department

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(a) The administrator of a state-operated treatment facility is its chief executive officer and has the authority to manage and administer the financial, business and personnel affairs of such facility. All other persons employed at the state-operated treatment facility are under the jurisdiction and authority of the administrator of the treatment facility who need not be a physician.

(b) The clinical director has the responsibility for decisions involving clinical and medical treatment of patients in a state-operated mental health facility. The clinical director must be a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this state who has completed training in an accredited program of post-graduate education in psychiatry.

(c) In any facility designated by the Secretary of the Department of Health Facilities as a facility for individuals with an intellectual disability in which programs and services are designed primarily to provide education, training and rehabilitation rather than medical or psychiatric treatment, the duties and responsibilities, other than those directly related to medical treatment services, assigned to the clinical director by this section or elsewhere in this chapter, are assigned to and become the responsibility of the administrator of that facility, or of a person with expertise in the field of intellectual disability, who need not be a physician, designated by the administrator.

Legislative History

2024 Reg. Sess., HB4274; 2024 Reg. Sess., SB1004; 2010 Reg. Sess., HB4281; 1992 Reg. Sess., SB76; 1984 Reg. Sess., SB657; 1973 Reg. Sess., HB687; 1972 Reg. Sess., HB689; 1965 Reg. Sess., HB586