Louisiana Children’s Code 1428 – Notice of admission
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Terms Used In Louisiana Children's Code 1428
- MHAS: means Mental Health Advocacy Service, as established by Louisiana Children's Code 1404
- 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 Children's Code 1404
- Treatment facility: means any public or private hospital, retreat, institution, mental health center, or facility licensed by the state of Louisiana in which any mentally ill minor or minor suffering from substance abuse is received or detained as a patient except a facility under the control or supervision of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections unless otherwise provided in Title VIII of this Code. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
A. The director of the treatment facility shall notify the minor’s nearest relative, if known, or designated responsible party, if any, in writing of the minor’s admission by emergency certificate as soon as reasonably possible.
B. Within seventy-two hours after an admission of any minor to a treatment facility by emergency certificate, copies of the physician’s and coroner’s emergency certificates shall be delivered by the facility by personal delivery, email, or facsimile to the MHAS office located nearest to the treatment facility.
Acts 1991, No. 235, §14, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2024, No. 92, §1.