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Requirements for Voluntary and Informal Admissions and Notices Regarding Hospitalization – N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 9.19
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Current as of June 2015
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Requirements for Voluntary and Informal Admissions and Notices Regarding Hospitalization
New York’s Mental Hygiene Law allows directors of hospitals to accept both voluntary (defined by N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 9.13 as any suitable person in need of care and treatment, who voluntarily submits a written application asking to be admitted to the mental health care facility) and informal (defined by § 9.15 as those patients voluntarily seeking hospitalization without applying formally in writing) patients.
This particular section of the law requires the director of the hospital to inform such voluntary and informal patients of their status and rights once every 120 days of hospitalization, including their right to obtain legal services. The law further requires that the director obtain written consent from such patients after notifying them, and that the director give the mental hygiene legal service a copy of that written consent.
Current as of June 2015
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