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Section 27A-8-1 - Requirements for admission of voluntary patients.

27A-8-1. Requirements for admission of voluntary patients. The facility director or administrator may receive as a voluntary patient any individual eighteen years of age or older who understands the nature of voluntary inpatient treatment, is capable of giving informed consent, and voluntarily executes a written application for admission, if the following requirements are met:
(1) If, after examination by a staff psychiatrist, the facility director or administrator determines that the applicant is clinically suitable for inpatient treatment. In the event of the unavailability of a staff psychiatrist, admission may be granted pending an examination by a staff psychiatrist within one working day;
(2) A less restrictive treatment alternative is inappropriate or unavailable;
(3) The individual is in need of and will likely benefit from treatment which is available at the facility;
(4) The requirements in § 27A-8-15 have been met;
(5) The person does not have medical needs which are beyond the capacity of the center or inpatient psychiatric facility.
If a person eighteen years of age or older voluntarily seeks admission to an inpatient psychiatric facility without any element of force, duress, threat or other form of coercion and the facility director or administrator determines, after the explanation required in § 27A-8-15, that the person is incapable of exercising an informed consent to the admission, the person may be admitted upon exercise of a substituted informed consent by a guardian or a next of kin in accordance with § 27A-8-18 or 27A-8-19.

Source: SDC 1939, § 30.0115; SL 1955, ch 111; SL 1957, ch 147; SL 1959, ch 170; SL 1961, ch 153; SL 1964, ch 104, § 8; SDCL, § 27-4-12; SL 1975, ch 181, § 32; SL 1981, ch 206, § 1; SL 1991, ch 220, § 46; SL 1992, ch 190, § 4; SL 1995, ch 158, § 1.

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