Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on proposed information

requests, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

(SAMHSA) will publish periodic summaries of each proposed collection of

information. To request a copy of these documents, contact the SAMHSA

Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-8005.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways

to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,

including through the use of automated collection techniques or other

forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: The 1997 Sample Survey of Mental Health

Organizations and General Hospitals with Separate Psychiatric

Services--Revision of the Inventory of Mental Health Organizations and

General Hospital Mental Health Services (IMHO/GHMHS). The survey will

be conducted in two phases. Phase I will be a brief two page inventory

consisting of two forms--one for all organizations that provide mental

health treatment services and the other for all managed behavioral

health care organizations. Phase II will be a sample survey of 3,800

organizations drawn from the universe of organizations providing mental

health treatment services identified in the first phase. The sample

survey will use a more comprehensive, but very similar form to the one

used in the 1994 IMHO/GHMHS. The organizational data to be collected

include ownership and management, client/patient

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demographics, revenues and expenditures, and staffing. The dataset

produced will be used to provide national statistical estimates and

will be the basis of the National Directory of Mental Health Services.

The annual burden estimate is as follows:

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Annual

number of Average

Number of responses hours per Annual

respondents per response burden hours

respondent

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Phase I................................................. 10,559 1 0.23 2,478

Specialty Mental Health Organizations............... (3,235) (1) (00.20) (647)

General Hospitals with Psychiatric Services......... (1,374) (1) (00.25) (343)

General Hospitals to be screened for Psychiatric

Services........................................... (4,080) (1) (00.25) (1,020)

Community Residential Organizations................. (1,275) (1) (00.25) (319)

Managed Care Organizations.......................... (595) (1) (00.25) (149)

Phase II (Sample Survey)................................ 3,229 1 2.0 6,939

Specialty Mental Health Organizations............... (2,267) (1) (02.0) (4,534)

General Hospitals with Psychiatric Services......... (962) (1) (02.5) (2,405)

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Total............................................. 13,788 ............ ............ 9,417

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Send comments to Beatrice Rouse, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,

Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

Dated: December 12, 1997.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 97-33011 Filed 12-17-97; 8:45 am]

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