(a) When the treating psychiatrist or advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority and who holds an accredited national certification in an advanced practice registered nurse psychiatric specialization contemplates discharge for a subject of the order because of expiration of the court order or because the subject of the order is no longer a proper subject for assisted community treatment, as determined by the criteria in § 334-121, the treating psychiatrist or advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority and who holds an accredited national certification in an advanced practice registered nurse psychiatric specialization shall provide notice of intent to discharge.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-131

  • Court: means any duly constituted court and includes proceedings, hearings of per diem judges as authorized by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
  • Discharge: means the formal termination on the records of a psychiatric facility of a patient's period of treatment at the facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
  • Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, out-patient, intermediate, domiciliary, and inpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social service care, vocational rehabilitation, career counseling, and other special services which may be extended to handicapped persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 334-1
(b) The notice shall be filed with the family court that issued the order for assisted community treatment, and served by personal service or by certified mail on the interested party who filed the petition and those persons whom the order for assisted community treatment specifies as entitled to receive notice.
(c) The notice of intent to discharge shall be mailed at least ten days prior to the intended date of discharge.
(d) If no objection is filed under § 334-132 prior to the intended date of discharge, the subject of the order is thereupon fully discharged from assisted community treatment.

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