66-409. AUTHORITY TO ADMIT DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS. The head of any facility licensed under state law, or a practitioner granted admitting privileges by the facility’s bylaws and other process by which the facility’s governing body and medical staff exercise oversight, such as through credentialing and competency review, is authorized to admit for observation, diagnosis, care or treatment any developmentally disabled person for services provided by that facility.
History:
[66-409, added 1982, ch. 59, sec. 7, p. 103; am. 2017, ch. 278, sec. 4, p. 729.]