(1) Inpatient hospital psychiatric care is the briefest possible inpatient hospital stay necessary to provide the intensive psychiatric intervention and stabilization required to evaluate and/or stabilize the individual for discharge to the least restrictive appropriate setting for continuing care and treatment of the individual's psychiatric condition.

(2) The therapeutic intervention or evaluation must be designed to achieve the patient's discharge from inpatient hospital status to a less restrictive environment at the earliest possible time.

(3) The individual's psychiatric condition must be of such a nature as to pose a significant danger to self, others or the public safety.