N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 29.13: Treatment plans

§ 29.13 Treatment plans.

(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.