Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:215.3 – Treatment facilities; dissemination of information
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:215.3
- Addictive disorder: is a primary, chronic neurobiologic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
- Discharge: means the full or conditional release from a treatment facility of any person admitted or otherwise detained under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
- Treatment: means an active effort to accomplish an improvement in the mental condition or behavior of a patient or to prevent deterioration in his condition or behavior. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
- Treatment facility: includes but is not limited to the following, and shall be selected with consideration of first, medical suitability; second, least restriction of the person's liberty; third, nearness to the patient's usual residence; fourth, financial or other status of the patient; and fifth, patient's expressed preference, except that such considerations shall not apply to forensic facilities:
(i) Public and private behavioral health services providers licensed pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
A. Notwithstanding La. Rev. Stat. 28.2, for the purposes of this Section, “treatment facility” shall mean any healthcare facility which provides services or treatment to a person who is suffering from a mental illness or substance-related or addictive disorder except for a nursing home as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 40:2009.2.
B. A treatment facility shall provide to all individuals in the parish suffering from a mental illness or substance-related or addictive disorder upon discharge or release an information and consent form which details the information, programs, and services which can be provided by the CSI/HIP to individuals suffering from mental illness and substance-related or addictive disorders and includes a voluntary consent form for the individual to complete if the individual desires to have the treatment facility notify the CSI/HIP on behalf of the individual that the individual would like to be contacted by the CSI/HIP to receive additional information about the program.
C. The information and consent forms shall be provided to the treatment facility by the CSI/HIP.
Acts 2010, No. 907, §1; Acts 2017, No. 369, §2.