2011 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code
DIVISION 4. MENTAL HEALTH [4000 - 4390]
CHAPTER 3. Officers and Employees
Section 4318

Each state hospital shall, prior to the discharge of any patient who was placed in the facility under a county Short-Doyle plan, prepare a written recommended aftercare plan which shall be transmitted to the local director of mental health services in the county of the patient s placement.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, such aftercare plan shall specify the following:

(a) Diagnoses;

(b) Treatment initiated;

(c) Medications and their dosage schedules;

(d) Date of discharge;

(e) Location of community placement;

(f) Plan for continuing treatment; and

(g) List of referrals indicated, including, but not limited to:

(1) Public social services.

(2) Legal aid.

(3) Educational services.

(4) Vocational services.

(5) Medical treatment other than mental health services.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 962.)