37.2-838 - Discharge of persons from a licensed hospital.
§ 37.2-838. Discharge of persons from a licensed hospital.
The person in charge of a licensed hospital may discharge any consumerinvoluntarily admitted who is recovered or, if not recovered, whose dischargewill not be detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to the consumer,or who meets other criteria as specified in § 37.2-837. The person in chargeof the licensed hospital may refuse to discharge any consumer involuntarilyadmitted, if, in his judgment, the discharge will be detrimental to thepublic welfare or injurious to the consumer. The person in charge of alicensed hospital may grant a trial or home visit to a consumer in accordancewith regulations adopted by the Board.
(1968, c. 477, § 37.1-99; 1976, c. 671; 1980, cc. 582, 583; 2005, c. 716.)