Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 43A-3-320: Certified Eating Disorder Treatment Programs

A. The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

shall promulgate rules and standards for certification of eating

disorder treatment programs and for private facilities and

organizations that offer eating disorder treatment services in this

state. Such facilities and organizations shall be known as

“Certified Eating Disorder Treatment Programs”.

B. For purposes of this section, “eating disorder treatment”

means any treatment for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or any

other severe disturbances in eating behavior specified in the most

current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental

Disorders.

C. Applications for certification as a certified eating

disorder treatment program, pursuant to the provisions of this

section, shall be made to the Department of Mental Health and

Substance Abuse Services on prescribed forms. The Board, or the

Commissioner upon delegation by the Board, may certify the program

for a period of three (3) years subject to renewal as provided in

the rules promulgated by the Board. Nothing in this section shall

preclude the Department from making inspection visits to a program

to determine program compliance.

D. Hospitals licensed by the State Department of Health shall

be exempt from certification requirements. In addition, licensed

physicians, licensed psychologists, licensed social workers,

individual members of the clergy, licensed marital and family

therapists, registered nurses, licensed behavioral practitioners,

and licensed professional counselors shall be exempt from

certification requirements; provided, however, these exemptions

shall only apply to individual professional persons in their private

practices and not to any eating disorder treatment program operated

by such person.

E. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

is authorized to establish and collect certification and renewal

fees for certification of eating disorder treatment programs as

provided in Section 3-324 of this title.

F. Failure to comply with rules and standards promulgated by

the Board shall be grounds for revocation, suspension or nonrenewal

of certification.

G. No eating disorder treatment program shall operate or

continue to operate unless the facility complies with the rules

promulgated by the Board and is certified as required by this

section.