Insights & Resources

With the tremendous influx of individuals with mental illness to New York hospitals for evaluation, it is incumbent upon hospitals to remain vigilant and ensure their compliance with the laws that govern involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill. Potential liability for psychiatrists and hospitals, as well as negative impacts for the community at large, are possible if a court orders that a patient be released because a hospital failed to adhere to the deadlines required by law.
 
In this webinar, Garfunkel Wild will guide psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurse practitioners, hospital administrators, health care attorneys, and all other mental healthcare workers through the laws and principles that govern the treatment of mentally ill patients in New York, and will provide guidance on how they must be applied.
 
Key topics will include:
 

• Article 9 of the New York Mental Hygiene Law, which provides strict criteria and deadlines that Hospitals must follow when making a determination of whether or not a person, if discharged, will pose a danger to self or to others.
• Discussion of the importance of determining when inpatients have the capacity to make reasoned decisions concerning their treatment, and how to obtain treatment for them when they lack capacity.
• Circumstances when it is necessary to pursue court-ordered Assisted Outpatient Treatment for mentally ill patients.

*CLE credit was offered for New York during the live presentation.