Section 10-813 – Compensation for Initial Assessment
The Administration shall compensate case managers or other appropriate community mental health providers for conducting initial assessments of inmates who are: (1) Identified by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services as having a serious mental illness; and (2) Expected to be within 3 months of release.
Section 10-901.1 – Financial Statements and Salary Information
(a) A community mental health services program shall submit annually financial statements and salary information in accordance with the Department’s regulations. (b) The Administration may impose a penalty not exceeding $500 per day per violation for each day a violation occurs on a licensee that fails to comply with subsection (a) of this section.
Section 10-712 – Records
(a) (1) Each facility shall keep complete records for each individual who is admitted to the facility under this title. (2) The records shall contain all of the information that is required by this title or the Administration. (b) A facility shall keep the records in a separate and secure area at the facility.
Section 10-713 – Reports of Deaths
(a) (1) In this section, “program or facility” means an inpatient or residential treatment setting, residential crisis service, group home, or residential rehabilitation program. (2) Upon notification of the death of an individual in a State funded or operated program or facility, the administrative head of the program or facility shall report the death: (i) Immediately to the sheriff, […]
Section 10-631 – Notice of Admission Status and Hearing Rights
(a) The Administration shall prepare and provide each facility with standard forms that provide, in clear and simple words, at least the following information: (1) Notice of the admission of the individual; (2) The right of the individual to consult with a lawyer that the individual chooses; (3) The availability of the services of the legal aid bureaus, lawyer […]
Section 10-801 – “Release” Defined
In this subtitle, “release” means a permanent, temporary, absolute, or conditional release of an individual from a residential facility or a Veterans’ Administration hospital.
Section 10-632 – Notice and Time of Hearing; Hearing Officer; Decision
(a) Any individual proposed for involuntary admission under Part III of this subtitle shall be afforded a hearing to determine whether the individual is to be admitted to a facility or a Veterans’ Administration hospital as an involuntary patient or released without being admitted. (b) The hearing shall be conducted within 10 days of the date of […]
Section 10-802 – Duty of Director
If the Director finds that any individual is held by a facility in a manner contrary to law, the Director shall begin appropriate proceedings for release of that individual.
Section 10-633 – Final Decision
The determination of a hearing officer on an involuntary admission under this subtitle is a final decision of the Department for the purpose of judicial review of a final decision under the Administrative Procedure Act.
Section 10-803 – Voluntary Admissions
(a) An individual who is admitted voluntarily to a facility, on an informal request, may leave the facility at any time between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., unless the admission status of the individual has been changed to an involuntary admission. (b) (1) An individual who has been admitted voluntarily, under a formal written application, may not be […]