Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health
Chapter 635 - Certificate of Need Standards for Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Service Beds
Section 310:635-1-1.1 - Definitions

The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Emergency" means the urgent need to admit a person under 18 years of age for psychiatric or chemical dependency treatment services due to the imminent threat to life, health and/or safety of the person to be admitted and/or others.

"Temporary" means the period of time, but not to exceed 72 hours, from when a person under 18 years of age presents at the hospital for emergency psychiatric or chemical dependency treatment services in a bed ordinarily used for an adult until the earliest time as determined by the physician that the person can be transferred appropriately within the hospital to a bed that is certified for persons under 18 years of age, or to another hospital where such a bed is available, or the emergency ceases.

"Appropriate transfer" means a transfer in which the transferring hospital or unit provides the required treatment within its capability which minimizes the risks to the person's life, health and safety and such risks that may relate to others; and, in which the receiving hospital or unit has available space and qualified personnel for the psychiatric or chemical dependency treatment of persons under 18 years of age, and has agreed to accept transfer of the patient and to provide the indicated treatment.

Added at 9 Ok Reg 1975, eff 6-11-92