North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 28 - MENTAL HEALTH, STATE OPERATED FACILITIES AND SERVICES
Subchapter F - ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE
Section .0200 - VOLUNTARY ADMISIONS, INVOLUNTARY COMMITEMENTS AND DISCHARGES OF ADULTS FROM REGIONAL PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS
Section 28F .0204 - AUTHORIZATION OF HOSPITALIZATION WHEN INDIVIDUAL ARRIVES DIRECTLY AT HOSPITAL
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) When an individual from an area program arrives at the hospital for admission without area program authorization, the hospital shall contact designated personnel of the individual's county of residence area program, before admission is approved.
(b) If the area program does not respond within one hour, the hospital is deemed to have been authorized to admit, and shall contact the area program on the next working day to obtain authorization for continuation of the hospitalization.
Authority
G.S.
122C-3;
122C-211;
143B-147;
Eff.
February 1, 1989;
Amended Eff. July 1, 1996;
Pursuant
to G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. August 24,
2019.
