Appendix E

Institutions for Mental Diseases

An Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) is a hospital, nursing facility, or other institution or residential program that has 17 or more beds and provides diagnosis, treatment, or care of people with mental diseases.

Types of IMD facilities include:

In-state children's mental health residential facilities
Some In-State and Out-of-State severe emotional disturbance (SED) residential treatment facilities for children Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF) are excluded from IMD status.
Regional Treatment Center (RTC) - mental illness (MI) psychiatric inpatient hospital
Residential substance use disorder treatment programs
Rule 36 MI treatment program
Privately owned psychiatric inpatient hospital
State sex offender program
State forensic program
Nursing homes – when 50% or more of beds are for treatment of mental illness

Legal Citations

Code of Federal Regulations, title 42, Section 435.1010

Minnesota Statutes, section 253B.045