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Courts Sb 39, Georgia State University Law Review
Courts Sb 39, Georgia State University Law Review
Georgia State University Law Review
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Evidence Hearsay: Allow The Admission Of Medical Reports As Nonhearsay, Heather Browning
Evidence Hearsay: Allow The Admission Of Medical Reports As Nonhearsay, Heather Browning
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act allows reports by medical or mental health practitioners to be admitted into evidence at trial as nonhearsay, provided the party intending to introduce the report gives the opposing party sixty days notice. The report will not go out with the jury as documentary evidence.
Mental Health Examination, Treatment, Etc., For Mental Illness: Provide For Treatment Team To Concur On Decision To Discharge Mental Patients And For Period Of Conditional Release Of Mentally Ill Defendants, Melinda D. Taylor
Georgia State University Law Review
HB 889 amends Title 37 of the Georgia Code by changing several provisions relating to administration of mental health laws. The most significant changes include providing the Department of Human Resources with access to patient records, changing the duties of the chief medical officer, allowing chief medical officers to appoint designees, changing the provision regarding patient discharge, and allowing psychologists to perform functions traditionally performed by physicians. Other minor changes include providing for confidentiality of records and providing patients with the ability to seek treatment from private psychologists. HB 469 provides the court with authority to authorize a period of …
Mental Health Treatment Of Mentally Ill Persons / Alcoholics / Drug Abusers: Outpatient / Inpatient Procedures, Georgia State University Law Review
Mental Health Treatment Of Mentally Ill Persons / Alcoholics / Drug Abusers: Outpatient / Inpatient Procedures, Georgia State University Law Review
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act extensively revises the criteria and procedures for inpatient and outpatient commitment of mentally ill persons, alcoholics, and drug abusers. It allows physicians at community mental health facilities and state hospitals to initiate outpatient treatment for persons not meeting the inpatient criteria but requiring regular treatment to avoid the need for hospitalization. It provides procedures to remove an outpatient who fails to comply with a treatment plan to a mental health facility for treatment before his or her condition requires hospitalization.