Alaska Statutes Title 47, Chapter 47.30, Article 10 - Patient Rights

• Sec. 47.30.817 Advance Health Care Directives.
  A health care provider or a health care institution may not require or prohibit the execution or revocation of an advance health care directive...
• Sec. 47.30.825 Patient Medical Rights.
  (a) A patient who is receiving services under AS 47.30.660 - 47.30.915 has the rights described in this section.(b) The patient and the following...
• Sec. 47.30.830 Prohibition of Experimental Treatments.
  (a) Experimental treatments involving any significant risk of physical or psychological harm may not be administered to a patient.(b) If the personnel of an...
• Sec. 47.30.833 Nutritional Evaluation; Right to Proper Diet.
  (a) A treatment facility shall conduct a nutritional evaluation of a person admitted or committed to a treatment facility for evaluation or treatment, whether...
• Sec. 47.30.835 Civil Rights Not Impaired.
  (a) A person may not deny to a person who is undergoing evaluation or treatment under AS 47.30.660 - 47.30.915 a civil right, including...
• Sec. 47.30.836 Psychotropic Medication in Non-Crisis Situation.
  An evaluation facility or designated treatment facility may not administer psychotropic medication to a patient in a situation that does not involve a crisis...
• Sec. 47.30.837 Informed Consent.
  (a) A patient has the capacity to give informed consent for purposes of AS 47.30.836 if the patient is competent to make mental health...
• Sec. 47.30.838 Psychotropic Medication in Crisis Situations.
  (a) Except as provided in (c) and (d) of this section, an evaluation facility or designated treatment facility may administer psychotropic medication to a...
• Sec. 47.30.839 Court-Ordered Administration of Medication.
  (a) An evaluation facility or designated treatment facility may use the procedures described in this section to obtain court approval of administration of psychotropic...
• Sec. 47.30.840 Right to Privacy and Personal Possessions; Other Rights.
  (a) A person undergoing evaluation or treatment under AS 47.30.660 - 47.30.915(1) may not be photographed without the person's consent and that of the...
• Sec. 47.30.845 Confidential Records.
  Information and records obtained in the course of a screening investigation, evaluation, examination, or treatment are confidential and are not public records, except as...
• Sec. 47.30.847 Patients' Grievance Procedures.
  (a) A patient has the right to bring grievances about the patient's treatment, care, or rights to an impartial body within an evaluation facility...
• Sec. 47.30.850 Sealing Records.
  Following the discharge of a person from a treatment facility or the issuance of a court order denying a petition for commitment, the person...
• Sec. 47.30.851 Relief From Legal Disability.
  (a) A person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(4) as a result of an involuntary commitment or...
• Sec. 47.30.855 Posting of Rights.
  The rights set out in AS 47.30.817 - 47.30.855 shall be prominently posted in all treatment facilities in places accessible to all patients. A...
• Sec. 47.30.860 Documents and Notices in Other Languages.
  When practicable, all documents and notices required by AS 47.30.660 - 47.30.915 to be served on a respondent, or on the respondent's parents, guardian...
• Sec. 47.30.865 Discrimination Prohibited.
  (a) The fact that a person is or has been evaluated or treated for mental illness may not be a basis for discrimination in(1)...

Last modified: November 15, 2016