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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 21

SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS SHALL BE CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE.

(C)  NO STATE SHALL BE OBLIGED TO RECEIVE ANY PATIENT
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS ARTICLE
UNLESS THE SENDING STATE HAS GIVEN ADVANCE NOTICE OF ITS
INTENTION TO SEND THE PATIENT; FURNISHED ALL AVAILABLE
MEDICAL AND OTHER PERTINENT RECORDS CONCERNING THE PATIENT;
GIVEN THE QUALIFIED MEDICAL OR OTHER APPROPRIATE CLINICAL
AUTHORITIES OF THE RECEIVING STATE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXAMINE
THE PATIENT IF SAID AUTHORITIES SO WISH; AND UNLESS THE
RECEIVING STATE SHALL AGREE TO ACCEPT THE PATIENT.

(D)  IN THE EVENT THAT THE LAWS OF THE RECEIVING STATE
ESTABLISH A SYSTEM OF PRIORITIES FOR THE ADMISSION OF
PATIENTS, AN INTERSTATE PATIENT UNDER THIS COMPACT SHALL
RECEIVE THE SAME PRIORITY AS A LOCAL PATIENT AND SHALL BE
TAKEN IN THE SAME ORDER AND AT THE SAME TIME THAT HE WOULD
BE TAKEN IF HE WERE A LOCAL PATIENT.

(E)  PURSUANT TO THIS COMPACT, THE DETERMINATION AS TO
THE SUITABLE PLACE OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION FOR A PATIENT MAY
BE REVIEWED AT ANY TIME ANY SUCH FURTHER TRANSFER OF THE
PATIENT MAY BE MADE AS SEEMS LIKELY TO BE IN THE BEST
INTEREST OF THE PATIENT.

ARTICLE IV

(A)   WHENEVER, PURSUANT TO THE LAWS OF THE STATE IN
WHICH A PATIENT IS PHYSICALLY PRESENT, IT SHALL BE
DETERMINED THAT THE PATIENT SHOULD RECEIVE AFTER-CARE OR
SUPERVISION, SUCH CARE OR SUPERVISION MAY BE PROVIDED IN A
RECEIVING STATE. IF THE MEDICAL OR OTHER APPROPRIATE
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES HAVING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CARE AND
TREATMENT OF THE PATIENT IN THE SENDING STATE SHALL HAVE
REASON TO BELIEVE THAT AFTER-CARE IN ANOTHER STATE WOULD BE
IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PATIENT AND WOULD NOT JEOPARDIZE
THE PUBLIC SAFETY, THEY SHALL REQUEST THE APPROPRIATE
AUTHORITIES IN THE RECEIVING STATE TO INVESTIGATE THE
DESIRABILITY OF AFFORDING THE PATIENT SUCH AFTER-CARE IN
SAID RECEIVING STATE, AND SUCH INVESTIGATION SHALL BE MADE
WITH ALL REASONABLE SPEED. THE REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION
SHALL BE ACCOMPANIED BY COMPLETE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE
PATIENT'S INTENDED PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND THE IDENTITY OF
THE PERSON IN WHOSE CHARGE IT IS PROPOSED TO PLACE THE
PATIENT, THE COMPLETE MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE PATIENT, AND
SUCH OTHER DOCUMENTS AS MAY BE PERTINENT.

(B)  IF THE MEDICAL OR OTHER APPROPRIATE CLINICAL
AUTHORITIES HAVING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CARE AND TREATMENT
OF THE PATIENT IN THE SENDING STATE AND THE APPROPRIATE
AUTHORITIES IN THE RECEIVING STATE FIND THAT THE BEST
INTEREST OF THE PATIENT WOULD BE SERVED THEREBY, AND IF THE
PUBLIC SAFETY WOULD NOT BE JEOPARDIZED THEREBY, THE PATIENT
MAY RECEIVE AFTER-CARE OR SUPERVISION IN THE RECEIVING
STATE.