Quarterly, each local mental health director shall furnish to the Director of Health Care Services, the facility reports of the number of persons whose rights were denied and the right or rights which were denied. The content of the reports from facilities shall enable the local mental health director and Director of Health Care Services to identify individual treatment records, if necessary, for further analysis and investigation. These quarterly reports, except for the identity of the person whose rights are denied, shall be available, upon request, to Members of the State Legislature, or a member of a county board of supervisors.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, information pertaining to denial of rights contained in the person’s treatment record shall be made available, on request, to the person, his or her attorney, his or her conservator or guardian, the local mental health director, or his or her designee, or the Patients’ Rights program of the State Department of Health Care Services. The information may include consent forms, required documentation for convulsive treatment, documentation regarding the use of restraints and seclusion, physician’s orders, nursing notes, and involuntary detention and conservatorship papers. The information, except for the identity of the person whose rights are denied, shall be made available to the Members of the State Legislature or a member of a county board of supervisors.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 34, Sec. 87. (SB 1009) Effective June 27, 2012.)