2018 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 28 - Mental Health
RS 28:75 - Failure to comply with involuntary outpatient treatment
§75. Failure to comply with involuntary outpatient treatment
A. If either party alleges noncompliance under the written treatment plan, a judicial review can be scheduled and all persons listed in R.S. 28:69(A) are to receive notice.
B. When a physician, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, or psychologist determines the patient has failed to comply with the ordered treatment, efforts were made to solicit compliance by the local governing entity, case manager, or assertive community treatment provider, and the patient may be in need of involuntary admission to a treatment facility, he may execute an emergency certificate in accordance with R.S. 28:53, request an order for custody in accordance with R.S. 28:53.2, or seek a judicial commitment in accordance with R.S. 28:54.
C. If the patient refuses to take medication or refuses to take or fails blood or other laboratory tests as required by court order, the physician, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, or psychologist may consider his refusal in determining whether the patient is in need of inpatient treatment services.
Acts 2008, No. 407, §2; Acts 2018, No. 375, §1.
