Effective: September 17, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 43 – 130th General Assembly (A) The chief clinical officer shall as frequently as practicable, and at least once every thirty days, examine or cause to be examined every patient, and, whenever the chief clinical officer determines that the conditions justifying involuntary hospitalization or commitment no longer […]
Effective: July 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 285 – 121st General Assembly When the chief clinical officer of a hospital considers it in the best interest of a patient, the officer may permit the patient to leave the hospital on a trial visit. The trial visit shall be for the period of time the […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly The chief clinical officer of a public hospital shall immediately report to the department of mental health and addiction services and the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services serving the patient’s county of residence the removal, death, escape, discharge, […]
Effective: October 10, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 317 – 118th General Assembly Any person who has been hospitalized or committed under this chapter may, at any time, apply to the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services serving his county of residence for services listed in section 340.09 of the Revised Code.
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly Upon the request of a hospital, person, board, community mental health services provider, or facility who has custody of a patient hospitalized pursuant to section 5122.15 of the Revised Code, or on the order of the court, such patient may be called […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly (A) If a patient is absent without leave, on a verbal or written order issued within five days of the time of the unauthorized absence by the department of mental health and addiction services, the chief clinical officer of the hospital from […]
Effective: September 17, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 43 – 130th General Assembly The chief clinical officer of the hospital or the chief clinical officer’s designee shall assure that all patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this chapter shall: (A) Receive, within twenty days of their admission sufficient professional care to assure that an evaluation […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section, the chief clinical officer or, in a nonpublic hospital, the attending physician responsible for a patient’s care shall provide all information, including expected physical and medical consequences, necessary to […]
Effective: August 26, 1976 Latest Legislation: House Bill 244 – 111th General Assembly No patient of a hospital for the mentally ill shall be compelled to perform labor which involves the operation, support, or maintenance of the hospital or for which the hospital is under contract with an outside organization. Privileges or release from the […]
Effective: October 1, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly All patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this chapter have the following rights: (A) The right to a written list of all rights enumerated in this chapter, to that person, that person’s legal guardian, and that person’s counsel. If the person is […]
Effective: September 17, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 43 – 130th General Assembly Any person detained pursuant to this chapter or section 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, or 2945.402 of the Revised Code shall be entitled to the writ of habeas corpus upon proper petition by self or by a friend to any court generally empowered to […]
Effective: July 1, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 381 – 118th General Assembly No person shall be deprived of any public or private employment solely because of having been admitted to a hospital or otherwise receiving services, voluntarily or involuntarily, for a mental illness or other mental disability. Any person admitted to a hospital or […]
Effective: July 1, 2017 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 319 – 131st General Assembly (A) All certificates, applications, records, and reports made for the purpose of this chapter and sections 2945.38, 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, and 2945.402 of the Revised Code, other than court journal entries or court docket entries, and directly or indirectly identifying a patient […]
Effective: September 17, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 43 – 130th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, if, on or after April 8, 2004, an individual is found by a court to be a mentally ill person subject to court order or becomes an involuntary patient other than […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) “Quality assurance committee” means a committee that is appointed in the central office of the department of mental health and addiction services by the director of mental health and addiction services, a committee of a […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly The department of mental health and addiction services may prescribe the form of applications, reports, records, and medical certificates provided for under this chapter, and the information required to be contained therein; require reports from the chief clinical officer of any public […]
Effective: September 17, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 43 – 130th General Assembly (A) Persons, including, but not limited to, boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and community mental health services providers, acting in good faith, either upon actual knowledge or information thought by them to be reliable, who procedurally or physically […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) “Facility or provider” means, in the context of a person committed to the department of mental health and addiction services under sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code, any entity in which the department […]
Effective: July 1, 1980 Latest Legislation: House Bill 900 – 113th General Assembly (A) In a case in which the jurisdiction of a court has not been specifically given or the procedure provided for, the court in the county in which a person alleged to be mentally ill is found shall have full, complete, and […]
Effective: September 29, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 – 131st General Assembly If the legal residence of a person suffering from mental illness is in another county of the state, the necessary expense of the person’s return is a proper charge against the county of legal residence. If an adjudication and order of hospitalization […]
