Illinois Administrative Code › Title 20 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Part 503 - CLASSIFICATION AND TRANSFERS › Subpart B - TRANSFERS › Section 503.150 - Transfers to Specialized Mental Health Settings - Adult Division

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Any person committed to the Adult Division may be transferred
				  to a specialized mental health setting if, upon examination by a Department
				  physician or psychiatrist, the physician or psychiatrist certifies such a
				  transfer is required.
a) Emergency
				transfers to specialized mental health settings may be granted by verbal
				approval of the Dwight Chief Administrative Officer for female transfers, or by
				verbal approval of the Director for male transfers if certification of the
				necessity of such transfer is made by a Department physician or psychiatrist.
				If the certification is made by a Department physician, the individual must be
				examined by the physician no more than two hours prior to transfer.
b) Non-emergency transfers of committed
				persons shall be made in accordance with the following provisions:
1) The Psychiatric Report shall be reviewed
				by the Dwight Mental Health Supervisor for a female or the institution Clinical
				Services Supervisor for a male.
2)
				The committed person shall receive written notice of the impending transfer and
				his right to request, within 24 hours, a hearing before the Psychiatric Review
				Committee regarding his impending placement in a specialized mental health
				setting. The Psychiatric Review Committee shall be composed of three persons.
				One member shall be a mental health professional, one member shall be a
				representative of the clinical services staff and one member shall not be
				employed by the Department.
A) A hearing will
				be held within five days of receipt of the written request unless the committed
				person requests, in writing, an additional two days to prepare for the hearing.
				The committed person shall be allowed to make a reasonable number of collect
				telephone calls to family members or outside professional persons to advise
				them of his impending hearing.
B)
				The committed person may have, at his expense, a personal psychiatrist or other
				mental health professional appear to present verbal or written testimony
				pertaining to his mental status.
C)
				The committed person may request that witnesses be called to appear at the
				hearing.
D) The Psychiatric Report
				must be read at the hearing and the psychiatrist may appear in
				person.
E) The Committee shall, by
				majority vote, recommend the transfer, recommend that the committed person's
				mental health status be reviewed by another mental health professional or, if
				in the opinion of a mental health professional the transfer is not warranted,
				recommend the transfer not be approved.
F) The Committee's recommendation shall be
				forwarded to the Chief Administrative Officer.
3) Approval for the transfer of a female by
				the Dwight Chief Administrative Officer or approval for the transfer of a male
				by the Director shall be made after:
A) A
				review of the Psychiatric Report; and
B) A review of the Psychiatric Review
				Committee's recommendations; or,
C)
				Receipt of a signed document by the committed person that he does not request a
				hearing.