{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-5601","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 65-5601","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in K.S.A. 65-5601 through 65-5605, and amendments thereto:\n(a) \"Patient\" means a person who consults or is examined or interviewed by treatment personnel.\n(b) \"Treatment personnel\" means any employee of a treatment facility who receives a confidential communication from a patient while engaged in the diagnosis or treatment of a mental, alcoholic, drug dependency or emotional condition, if such communication was not intended to be disclosed to third persons.\n(c) \"Ancillary personnel\" means any employee of a treatment facility who is not included in the definition of treatment personnel.\n(d) \"Treatment facility\" means a community mental health center, community service provider, psychiatric hospital and state institution for people with intellectual disability.\n(e) \"Head of the treatment facility\" means the administrative director of a treatment facility or the designee of the administrative director.\n(f) \"Community mental health center\" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 39-2002, and amendments thereto.\n(g) \"Psychiatric hospital\" means Larned state hospital, Osawatomie state hospital, south central regional mental health hospital and hospitals licensed under K.S.A. 39-2001 et seq., and amendments thereto.\n(h) \"State institution for people with intellectual disability\" means Parsons state hospital and the Kansas neurological institute.\n(i) \"Community service provider\" means: (1) A community facility for people with intellectual disability organized pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-4001 through 19-4015, and amendments thereto, and licensed in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 39-2001 et seq., and amendments thereto; (2) community service provider as provided in the developmental disabilities reform act; or (3) a nonprofit corporation that provides services for people with intellectual disability pursuant to a contract with an intellectual disability governing board.","path":["Chapter 65.—PUBLIC HEALTH","Article 56.—CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch65/065_056_0001.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-10-15T06:24:41Z","sha256":"0fc9254595d8e26b4133d9ea1c20f67a9f059b0b44e15beb6f70704cbeb95ce6","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-5517","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-5602"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}