Designation by Department of Emergency Receiving Facilities

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  2. Georgia Code
  3. Mental Health
  4. Examination, Treatment, etc., for Mental Illness
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  6. Emergency Receiving Facilities for Examination of Persons Apprehended Pursuant to Physician's Certificate, Court Order, Etc
  7. Designation by Department of Emergency Receiving Facilities

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Any state owned and state operated facility may be designated by the department as an emergency receiving facility. The department shall maintain an emergency receiving facility at each Georgia regional hospital which shall accept, under Code Sections 37-3-41 through 37-3-44, patients found in any county in the service region of the hospital. Any other facility within the State of Georgia may be so designated by the department at the request of or with the consent of the governing officers of the facility.

(Code 1933, § 88-504.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 505, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1789, § 1.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Medical admissions county is a county in which the procedure is governed by Ga. L. 1969, p. 505. 1972 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U72-29.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Hospital's liability as to diagnosis and care of patients brought to emergency ward, 72 A.L.R.2d 396.


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