Louisiana Children’s Code 1450 – Advisement of rights
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Terms Used In Louisiana Children's Code 1450
- MHAS: means Mental Health Advocacy Service, as established by La. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
- Patient: means any person detained and taken care of as a person with mental illness or person suffering from substance abuse. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
- Treatment: means an active effort to accomplish an improvement in the mental condition or behavior of a patient or to prevent deterioration in his condition or behavior. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
- Treatment facility: means any public or private hospital, retreat, institution, mental health center, or facility licensed by the state of Louisiana in which any mentally ill minor or minor suffering from substance abuse is received or detained as a patient except a facility under the control or supervision of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections unless otherwise provided in Title VIII of this Code. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
A. Every minor patient admitted by judicial commitment shall be informed in writing at the time of his admission of the procedures for requesting release from the treatment facility, the availability of counsel, information about the MHAS, the rights enumerated in Article 1409, and the rules and regulations applicable to or concerning his conduct while a patient in the treatment facility.
B. If the minor patient is illiterate or does not read or understand English, appropriate provisions should be made to supply him this information.
C. In addition, a copy of the information listed in this Article must be posted in any area where patients are confined and treated.
Acts 1991, No. 235, §14, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.