397.679 Emergency admission; circumstances justifying. - Florida Statutes

397.679 Emergency admission; circumstances justifying.

A person who meets the criteria for involuntary admission in s. 397.675 may be admitted to a hospital or to a licensed detoxification facility or addictions receiving facility for emergency assessment and stabilization, or to a less intensive component of a licensed service provider for assessment only, upon receipt by the facility of the physician’s certificate and the completion of an application for emergency admission.

History. s. 6, ch. 93-39.