Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part VIII - Intellectual Disability and Autism Manual › Subpart C - Administration and Fiscal Management › Chapter 6250 - COMMITMENT AND ADMISSION PROCEDURES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY › ADMISSION PROCEDURES FOR JUVENILES › Section 6250.21 - Admission procedures

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a) All
					 juveniles 18 years of age and younger to be admitted to an institution must be
					 referred from a recognized medical facility, intellectual disability therapist,
					 pediatrician, general physician, or psychologist.
(b) This referral must be accomplished by a
					 psychiatric, medical, or psychological evaluation and that report must indicate
					 with specificity the reasons that the person requires institutional
					 care.
(c) The director of the
					 institution or his delegate, shall have conducted an independent examination of
					 the proposed juvenile, and if his results disagree with the professional's
					 opinion, the director, or his delegate shall discharge the juvenile.
(d) The telephone number and address of the
					 juvenile's parents or the person who is requesting admission for the juvenile
					 shall accompany the referral.
(e)
					 Within 24 hours after the juvenile's admission, every youth who is at least 13
					 years of age shall receive written notification (which he signs) explaining his
					 rights indicating that he will be given a status report periodically of his
					 condition; that he can contact bytelephone or bymail his parents or the person
					 who requested his admission, and that he will be furnished with the number of
					 counsel (Public Defender's number; Legal Services) that he can call for
					 representation. An appropriate person shall explain his notice.
(f) In the event that a juvenile whose
					 chronological age is 13 or older objects (either orally or in writing) to
					 remain in the institution, the director, or his delegates, if he feels it is
					 necessary for the youth to remain, may continue the institutionalization for 2
					 business days during which time he shall notify the applicant and the referral
					 unit so that either party may institute a 406 proceeding. During that same
					 2-day period, the director, or his delegate, shall notify the public defender's
					 office or notify legal services readily available of the juvenile's need for
					 legal representation. If a 406 proceeding is begun during the 2-day period, the
					 juvenile shall remain institutionalized. If the applicant cannot be located and
					 the director, or his delegate, feels that the juvenile does not require
					 institutionalization, the director, or his delegate shall direct the base
					 service unit to assume responsibility of providing for the juvenile's
					 aftercare. However, if the director, or his delegate, feels that the juvenile
					 requires institutionalization, he shall direct the base service unit to file a
					 406 proceeding within 2 days after failure to locate the applicant.
(g) The juvenile's counsel shall be furnished
					 with the juvenile's evaluation from the referral unit, with a psychiatric
					 evaluation from the institution, and with a written report of the reasons to
					 institutionalize the juvenile.
(h)
					 If the staff member of the facility giving notice to the patient determines
					 that the patient is incapable of understanding the notification, it shall be
					 written on the notification.
The provisions of this §
													6250.21 amended under sections
						  201(2) and (8) and 202 of the Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Act of
						  1966 (50 P.S. §§
														4201(2) and
						  (8) and
						  4202).