Texas Health And Safety Code Title 7, Chapter 575 - Admission And Transfer Procedures For Inpatient Services

SUBCHAPTER A ADMISSION PROCEDURES

• Texas Section 575.001 - Authorization For Admission
  (a) The facility administrator of an inpatient mental health facility may admit and detain a patient under the procedures prescribed by this subtitle. (b) The...
• Texas Section 575.002 - Admission Of Voluntary Patient To Private Mental Hospital
  This subtitle does not prohibit the voluntary admission of a patient to a private mental hospital in any lawful manner. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd...

SUBCHAPTER B TRANSFER PROCEDURES

• Texas Section 575.003 - Admission Of Persons With Chemical Dependency And Persons Charged With Criminal Offense
  This subtitle does not affect the admission to a state mental health facility of: (1) a person with a chemical dependency admitted under Chapter 462;...
• Texas Section 575.011 - Transfer To Department Mental Health Facility Or Local Mental Health Authority
  (a) The department may transfer a patient, if the transfer is considered advisable, from an inpatient mental health facility operated by the department to: (1)...
• Texas Section 575.012 - Transfer Of Person With An Intellectual Disability To An Inpatient Mental Health Facility Operated By The Department
  (a) An inpatient mental health facility may not transfer a patient who is also a person with an intellectual disability to a department mental health...
• Texas Section 575.013 - Transfer Of Person With An Intellectual Disability To State Supported Living Center
  (a) The facility administrator of an inpatient mental health facility operated by the department may transfer an involuntary patient in the facility to a state...
• Texas Section 575.014 - Transfer To Private Mental Hospital
  The hospital administrator of a private mental hospital may transfer a patient to another private mental hospital, or the department may transfer a patient to...
• Texas Section 575.015 - Transfer To Federal Facility
  The department or the hospital administrator of a private mental hospital may transfer an involuntary patient to a federal agency if: (1) the federal agency...
• Texas Section 575.016 - Transfer From Facility Of Texas Department Of Criminal Justice
  (a) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer a patient committed to an inpatient mental health facility under Section 574.044 to a noncorrectional mental...
• Texas Section 575.017 - Transfer Of Records
  The facility administrator of the transferring inpatient mental health facility shall send the patient's appropriate hospital records, or a copy of the records, to the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016