ARTICLE 6 - RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF PATIENTS, THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, ETC., GENERALLY
- PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 37-7-140 - Retention of rights and privileges by patients generally; right to due process
- § 37-7-141 - Patients' right to legal counsel
- § 37-7-142 - Right of patients to communicate with persons outside facility and to receive visitors; inspection, restriction, and censorship of patient correspondence; establishment by chief medical
- § 37-7-143 - Patients' rights in regard to personal effects; liability of facility's employees and staff members for loss of or damage to patients' personal effects
- § 37-7-144 - Patients' right to vote
- § 37-7-145 - Employment of patients outside facilities
- § 37-7-146 - Education of children undergoing treatment in a facility
- § 37-7-147 - Appointment of patient representatives and guardians ad litem; notice provisions; duration and scope of guardianship ad litem
- § 37-7-148 - Rights of patients or representatives to petition for writ of habeas corpus and for judicial protection of rights and privileges granted by this chapter
- § 37-7-149 - Establishment of patients and staff complaint procedures; making of final decisions; complaint procedures as alternative to legal remedies
- § 37-7-150 - Right to appeal orders of probate court, juvenile court, or hearing examiner; payment of costs of appeal; right of patient to subsequent appeal; right of patient to legal counsel on app
- PART 2 - RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS TO MANNER OF CARE AND TREATMENT AND AS TO MAINTENANCE AND RELEASE OF CLINICAL RECORDS
- § 37-7-160 - Individual dignity of patients to be respected; treatment of alcoholics and drug abusers as medical patients; use of criminal facilities and procedures
- § 37-7-161 - Securing of least restrictive alternative placement; assisting patient in securing placement in noninstitutional community facilities and programs
- § 37-7-162 - Patient's care and treatment rights
- § 37-7-163 - Recognition of patients' physical integrity; patients' right to refuse medication; obtaining consent to treatment and surgery; performance of emergency surgery, immunity of physician; d
- § 37-7-164 - "Representative," "substantial change" defined; consultation by patient's representative with treatment facility; notification of treatment change; guardian's consultation and notificat
- § 37-7-165 - Mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of patients; use of medication, seclusion, or physical restraints
- § 37-7-166 - Maintenance, confidentiality, and release of clinical records; disclosure of confidential or privileged patient information
- § 37-7-167 - Right of patient to examine his records and to request correction of inaccuracies; promulgation of rules and regulations; judicial supervision of files and records relating to proceedin
- § 37-7-168 - Right of patient's attorney to interview physician or psychologist and staff attending patient; establishment of regulations as to release of information to patient's attorney