Source: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/fullchapter/18/179
Timestamp: 2020-05-27 12:49:13
Document Index: 119308858

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 7501', '§ 1', '§ 7502', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 6', '§ 7504', '§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 4', '§ 7', '§ 141', '§ 5', '§ 7506', '§ 36']

Chapter 179: ADMISSION PROCEDURES
§ 7501. Authority to receive patients
The head of a hospital which has been officially designated by the Commissioner may receive therein for observation, diagnosis, care, and treatment any individual whose admission is sought on proper application. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968.)
§ 7502. Control and treatment of patients
A person admitted to a hospital shall be subject to the control and treatment of the head of the hospital and the Board until his or her condition warrants his or her release, or until he or she has been lawfully removed or otherwise discharged. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968.)
(b) Before the person may be admitted as a voluntary patient he or she shall give his or her consent in writing on a form adopted by the Department. The consent shall include a representation that the person understands that his or her treatment will involve inpatient status, that he or she desires to be admitted to the hospital, and that he or she consents to admission voluntarily, without any coercion or duress.
(c) If the person is under 14 years of age, he or she may be admitted as a voluntary patient if he or she consents to admission, as provided in subsection (b) of this section, and if a parent or guardian makes written application. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1977, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.)
§ 7504. Application and certificate for emergency examination
(a) Upon written application by an interested party made under the pains and penalties of perjury and accompanied by a certificate by a licensed physician who is not the applicant, a person shall be held for admission to a hospital for an emergency examination to determine if he or she is a person in need of treatment. The application and certificate shall set forth the facts and circumstances that constitute the need for an emergency examination and that show that the person is a person in need of treatment.
(b) The application and certificate shall be authority for transporting the person to a hospital for an emergency examination, as provided in section 7511 of this title.
(c) For the purposes of admission of an individual to a designated hospital for care and treatment under this section, a head of a hospital, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, may include a person designated in writing by the head of the hospital to discharge the authority granted in this section. A designated person must be an official hospital administrator, supervisory personnel, or a licensed physician on duty on the hospital premises other than the certifying physician under subsection (a) of this section. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1969, No. 33, § 2, eff. April 1, 1969; 1973, No. 107, § 4; 1977, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2003, No. 122 (Adj. Sess.), § 141f; 2013, No. 192 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.)
§§ 7506, 7507. Repealed. 1977, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 36.