(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.