The child/adolescent psychiatric residential treatment facility shall provide adequate supervision of patients in a safe therapeutic manner and shall meet the following minimum requirements:
1. At least two direct care staff members shall be assigned to patient care responsibilities during all hours the patients are awake and not in school.2. At least one direct care staff member shall be assigned to direct care responsibilities for each five patients during all hours the patient are awake and not in school.3. At least one direct care staff member shall be assigned patient care responsibility for each ten patients, be awake, and be continuously available to the children/adolescents on each living unit during hours the patient are asleep. A minimum of one additional direct care staff member for each fourteen children/adolescents shall be immediately available on site to assist with emergencies or problems which might occur at any time.4. At least one licensed nurse (registered nurse or practical nurse) shall be on duty at all times, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.5. During waking hours, one professional staff member (other than a nurse) shall be on duty for each 22 patients.6. Other appropriate professional staff shall be available to assist in emergencies on at least an on-call basis at all times.7. A licensed physician shall be available on at least an on-call basis at all times.15 Miss. Code. R. § 16-1-51.19.7
Miss. Code Ann. § 43-11-13