Amend Hospital Regulations – Psychiatric Services/Denial of Admissions

HB1777 requires the Board of Health to include in the Regulations for the licensure of hospitals the requirement that hospitals providing psychiatric services establish a protocol to address the refusal for admission of medically stable patients referred for psychiatric care. The protocol would include direct verbal communication between the on-call psychiatric physician and the referring physician and would prohibit on-call physicians or other hospital staff from refusing a request for direct verbal communication by a referring physician.

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