2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 191 Health and Welfare
191.735. Multidisciplinary teams to be established, duties--qualifications, expenses--team training content.

191.735. 1. The directors of the department of health and senior services, mental health and social services and the commissioner of the department of elementary and secondary education shall establish multidisciplinary teams in areas deemed appropriate. Such teams shall act in an advisory capacity for local physicians or health care providers and shall include as a minimum a public health nurse, a representative of a hospital staff, an experienced child protection supervisor from the division of family services, an obstetrician, a neonatologist, pediatrician or a family practice physician with an interest in perinatal medicine, a medical social worker, a child psychologist and a drug treatment provider. No compensation shall be paid to the members of the multidisciplinary teams. These teams shall report to the director of the department of health and senior services. Necessary expenses of the teams may be paid from appropriations of the department of health and senior services upon approval by the director.

2. The director, in conjunction with the department of mental health, the department of elementary and secondary education, and the department of social services, shall ensure that these teams are trained in health issues affecting pregnant mothers and their babies, care in the home for medically complex infants, developmental impairments of exposed infants and treatment resources for drug-abusing families. The teams should also receive training in child protection aspects of intervention in child abuse and neglect cases and the various types of alternative resources available.

3. The local multidisciplinary teams shall ensure local cooperation in the implementation of sections 191.725 to 191.735.

(L. 1991 S.B. 190 § 6)

Effective 7-1-92