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Section 27A-8-17 - Assessment of need for continued admission--Informed consent required forcontinued admission--Substitute informed consent.

27A-8-17. Assessment of need for continued admission--Informed consent required for continued admission--Substitute informed consent. Thirty days after the voluntary admission of a patient and every ninety days thereafter, the facility director or center administrator shall review the patient's record and assess the need for continued admission. If continued admission is indicated, the facility director or center administrator shall consult with the patient and request from the patient an oral and written affirmation of his informed consent to continued admission. If a patient was admitted upon the substituted informed consent of a guardian or next of kin as provided in § 27A-8-1, and continues to be incapable of exercising an informed consent to continued admission, a substituted informed consent to continuing admission shall be obtained from the guardian or next of kin. The notification, request, and affirmation shall become part of the patient's record. A patient's, next of kin's, or guardian's failure to affirm his informed consent to continued admission constitutes notice of an intention to terminate inpatient treatment as provided in § 27A-8-10.

Source: SL 1991, ch 220, § 66; SL 1992, ch 190, § 4D.

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