Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 5 > Article 3 - Voluntary Admissions

• Administration: means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Admitting officer: means a psychiatrist or other physician or psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner with experience in performing psychiatric examinations who has been designated as an admitting officer of the evaluation agency by the person in charge of the evaluation agency. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Court: means the superior court in the county in this state in which the patient resides or was found before screening or emergency admission under this title. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the administration. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Evaluation: means :

  (a) A professional multidisciplinary analysis that may include firsthand observations or remote observations by interactive audiovisual media and that is based on data describing the person's identity, biography and medical, psychological and social conditions carried out by a group of persons consisting of at least the following:

  (i) Two licensed physicians who are qualified psychiatrists, if possible, or at least experienced in psychiatric matters, who shall examine and report their findings independently. See Arizona Laws 36-501

• Grave disability: means a condition evidenced by behavior in which a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is likely to come to serious physical harm or serious illness because the person is unable to provide for the person's own basic physical needs. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Informed consent: means a voluntary decision following presentation of all facts necessary to form the basis of an intelligent consent by the patient or guardian with no minimizing of known dangers of any procedures. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Mental disorder: means a substantial disorder of the person's emotional processes, thought, cognition or memory. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Patient: means any person who is undergoing examination, evaluation or behavioral or mental health treatment under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Prescribed form: means a form established by a court or the rules of the administration in accordance with the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Records: means all communications that are recorded in any form or medium and that relate to patient examination, evaluation or behavioral or mental health treatment. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Screening agency: means a health care agency that is licensed by the department and that provides those services required of the agency by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• State hospital: means the Arizona state hospital. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215