Administrative Rules of Montana
Department 37 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 37.106 - HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
Subchapter 37.106.18 - Licensure of Specialty Mental Health Facilities
Rule 37.106.1812 - SPECIALTY MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY: MEDICAL AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF
Universal Citation: MT Admin Rules 37.106.1812
Current through Register Vol. 6, March 22, 2024
(1) A specialty mental health facility must:
(a) Have a
single, organized professional staff with overall responsibility for the
quality of all clinical care provided to patients and the professional
practices of its members;
(b)
Employ or contract with the numbers of qualified mental health professional and
support staff necessary to adequately evaluate patients and to sufficiently
participate in each individual treatment plan to its completion; thoroughly
document such participation; formulate written, individualized, and
comprehensive treatment plans; provide active treatment measures; and engage in
discharge planning.
(c) Ensure that
the medical staff adopts and enforces bylaws approved by the governing body
that include:
(i) a description of the
qualifications a medical and professional staff candidate must meet in order to
be recommended to the governing body for appointment;
(ii) a statement of the duties and privileges
of each category of medical and professional staff.
(iii) a requirement that a physical
examination be made and medical history taken of a patient by a member of the
medical staff no more than seven days before or 24 hours after the patient's
admission to the facility.
(d) Ensure that the medical staff includes at
least one Montana-licensed psychiatrist.
(e) Ensure that a staff psychiatrist does the
following:
(i) Provides medical direction for
the facility's residential mental health care activities and consultation for,
and medical supervision of, mental health professional and non-physician health
care staff;
(ii) Reviews and signs
the records of each patient admitted; and
(iii) is directly involved with the mental
health treatment of each admitted patient as determined in each individual
treatment plan and documents that direct involvement.
Sec. 50-5-103, MCA; IMP, Sec. 50-5-103, MCA;
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