Section 29.13. Treatment plans  


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  • (a)  Subject  to  the regulations of the commissioner, the director of
      each departmental facility shall require the development  of  a  written
      treatment plan to assure adequate care and treatment for each patient.
        (b) The written treatment plan shall include, but not be limited to, a
      statement   of  treatment  goals;  appropriate  programs,  treatment  or
      therapies to be undertaken to meet such goals; and a specific  timetable
      for  assessment  of  patient programs as well as for periodic mental and
      physical reexaminations. In causing such a plan to be prepared  or  when
      such a plan is to be revised, the following persons shall be interviewed
      and  provided an opportunity to actively participate in such preparation
      or revision: the patient; an authorized representative of  the  patient,
      to  include the parent or parents if the patient is a minor, unless such
      minor sixteen years of age or older objects to the participation of  the
      parent  or  parents  and  there  has  been a clinical determination by a
      physician indicating that the involvement of the parent  or  parents  is
      not  clinically  appropriate and such determination is documented in the
      record; upon the request of the patient sixteen years of age or older, a
      significant individual to the  patient  including  any  relative,  close
      friend  or  individual  otherwise  concerned  with  the  welfare  of the
      patient, other than an employee of the facility.