California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 1 - Voluntary Admissions to Mental Hospitals and Institutions

• Section 6000.
  (a) Pursuant to applicable rules and regulations established by the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Developmental Services, the medical director of...
• Section 6000.5.
  Pursuant to Section 6000, the medical director of a state hospital for the developmentally disabled may receive in such hospital, as a boarder and patient,...
• Section 6001.
  Admissions to the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute or to the Neuropsychiatric Institute, U.C.L.A. Medical Center, may be on a voluntary basis after approval by the...
• Section 6002.
  (a) The person in charge of a private institution, hospital, or clinic that is conducted for, or includes a department or unit conducted for, the care...
• Section 6002.10.
  A facility licensed under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to provide inpatient psychiatric treatment, excluding...
• Section 6002.15.
  (a) Prior to accepting the written authorization for treatment, the facility shall assure that a representative of the facility has given a full explanation of the...
• Section 6002.20.
  (a) If the minor requests an independent clinical review of his or her continued inpatient treatment, the patients’ rights advocate shall be notified of the request,...
• Section 6002.25.
  The independent clinical review shall be conducted by a licensed psychiatrist with training and experience in treating psychiatric adolescent patients, who is a neutral party...
• Section 6002.30.
  (a) All reasonably available clinical information which is relevant to establishing whether the minor meets the admission criteria pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 6002.35 shall...
• Section 6002.35.
  (a) It shall be the responsibility of the psychiatrist conducting the independent clinical review to keep a record of the proceeding.(b) After considering all the clinical information,...
• Section 6002.40.
  (a) For any insurance contracts entered into after January 1, 1990, where any private insurer, certified medical plan, or private health service plan is liable to...
• Section 6003.
  As used in this article, “county psychiatric hospital” means the hospital, ward, or facility provided by the county pursuant to the provisions of Section 7100.(Repealed...
• Section 6003.1.
  As used in this article, county psychiatric health facility means a 24-hour acute care facility provided by the county pursuant to the provisions in Sections...
• Section 6003.2.
  Wherever in this article the term “county psychiatric hospital” appears, such term shall be interchangeable with the term “psychiatric health facility.”(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch.
• Section 6004.
  The superintendent or person in charge of the county psychiatric hospital may receive, care for, or treat in the hospital any person who voluntarily makes...
• Section 6005.
  A voluntary adult patient may leave the hospital or institution at any time by giving notice of his desire to leave to any member of...
• Section 6006.
  A person admitted as a voluntary patient to a state hospital, a private mental institution, or a county psychiatric hospital shall have the following rights...
• Section 6007.
  (a) Any person detained pursuant to this section shall be evaluated by the facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health...
• Section 6008.
  For the purposes of this part, a person who is a conservatee with a conservator of the person or of the person and estate appointed...

Last modified: October 22, 2018