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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 331
(ii) The Veterans' Administration hospital, in the case of a Veterans'
Administration hospital:
(4) State the relationship of the applicant to the individual for whom
admission is sought:
(5) Be signed by the applicant:
(6) Be accompanied by the certificates of:
(i) 1 physician and 1 psychologist: or
(ii) 2 physicians; and
(7) Contain any other information that the Administration requires.
(a) A facility or Veterans' Administration hospital may not admit the
individual under Part III of this subtitle unless:
(1) The individual has a mental disorder;
(2) The individual needs inpatient care or treatment;
(3) The individual presents a danger to the life or safety of the individual
or of others:
(4) The individual is unable or unwilling to be admitted voluntarily; and
(5) There is no available, less restrictive form of intervention that is
consistent with the welfare and safety of the individual.
Article - Insurance
15-840.
(a) In this section, "residential crisis services" means intensive mental health
and support services that are:
(1) provided to a child or an adult with a mental illness who is
experiencing or is at risk of a psychiatric crisis that would impair the individual's
ability to function in the community;
(2) designed to prevent a psychiatric inpatient admission, provide an
alternative to psychiatric inpatient admission, or shorten the length of inpatient stay;
(3) provided out of the individual's residence on a short-term basis in a
community-based residential setting: and
(4) provided by entities that are licensed by the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene to provide residential crisis services.
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