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

§27-1-7. Administrator and clinical director.

(a) The administrator of a state-operated treatment facility shall be its chief executive officer and shall have 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 shall be under the jurisdiction and authority of the administrator of the treatment facility who need not be a physician.

(b) The clinical director shall have 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 and human resources as a facility for the mentally retarded 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, shall be assigned to and become the responsibility of the administrator of such facility, or of a person with expertise in the field of mental retardation, who need not be a physician, designated by the administrator.