Giving Patient and His Representatives Notice of Their Rights Upon Patient's Admission to Emergency Receiving Facility

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Mental Health
  4. Hospitalization and Treatment of Alcoholics, Drug Dependent Individuals, and Drug Abusers
  5. Examination, Hospitalization, and Treatment of Involuntary Patients
  6. Emergency Receiving Facilities for Examination of Persons Apprehended Pursuant to Physician's Certificate or Court Order
  7. Giving Patient and His Representatives Notice of Their Rights Upon Patient's Admission to Emergency Receiving Facility

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  1. Immediately upon arrival of a patient at an emergency receiving facility under Code Section 37-7-43, the facility shall give the patient written notice of his right to petition for a writ of habeas corpus or for a protective order under Code Section 37-7-148. This written notice shall also inform the patient that he has a right to legal counsel and that, if the patient is unable to afford counsel, the court will appoint counsel.
  2. The notice informing the patient's representatives of the patient's hospitalization in an emergency receiving facility shall include a clear notification that the representatives may petition for a writ of habeas corpus or for a protective order under Code Section 37-7-148.

(Code 1933, § 88-404.10, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 273, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-404.6, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1856, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 1098, § 7.)

Cross references.

- Arrest of persons, T. 17, C. 4.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Drugs and Controlled Substances, § 96 et seq.

ALR.

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

PART 2 EVALUATING FACILITIES FOR EXAMINATION OF PERSONS ORDERED TO UNDERGO EVALUATION FOR MENTAL ILLNESS

37-7-60. Designation of evaluating facilities.

Any state owned or state operated facility may be designated by the department as an evaluating facility. The department shall maintain an evaluating facility at each Georgia regional hospital which shall accept, under Code Sections 37-7-61 through 37-7-65, patients found in any county in the service region of the hospital designated by the department. 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, § 88-404.11, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 273, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-405.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1856, § 1.)


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