59-2968. Admissions to a state psychiatric hospital; moratorium; procedure.
59-2968
59-2968. Admissions to a state psychiatric hospital; moratorium;procedure.(a) All admissions to a state psychiatrichospital upon any order of a court shall be to the statepsychiatric hospital designated by the secretary of social andrehabilitation services. The time and manner of the admissionshall be arranged by the participating mental health centerauthorizing such admission and coordinated with the hospital andthe official or agent who shall transport the person.
(b) No patient shall be admitted to a state psychiatrichospital pursuant to any of the provisions of this act, includingany court-ordered admissions, if the secretary has notified thesupreme court of the state of Kansas and each district courtwhich has jurisdiction over all or part of the catchment areaserved by a state psychiatric hospital, that the census of aparticular treatment program of that state psychiatric hospitalhas reached capacity and that no more patients may be admitted.Following notification that a state psychiatric hospital programhas reached its capacity and no more patients may be admitted,any district court which has jurisdiction over all or part of thecatchment area served by that state psychiatric hospital, and anyparticipating mental health center which serves all or part ofthat same catchment area, may request that patients needing thattreatment program be placed on a waiting list maintained by thatstate psychiatric hospital.
(c) In each such case, as a vacancy at that statepsychiatric hospital occurs, the district court and participatingmental health center shall be notified, in the order of theirprevious requests for placing a patient on the waiting list, thata patient may be admitted to the state psychiatric hospital. Assoon as the state psychiatric hospital is able to admit patientson a regular basis to a treatment program for which notice hasbeen previously given under this section, the superintendent ofthe state psychiatric hospital shall inform the supreme court andeach affected district court that the moratorium on admissions isno longer in effect.
History: L. 1996, ch. 167, § 24; Apr. 18.