2014 Vermont Statutes
Title 18 - Health
Chapter 171 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 7106 Notice of hospitalization and discharge
§ 7106. Notice of hospitalization and discharge
Whenever a patient has been admitted to a hospital other than upon his or her own application, the head of the hospital shall immediately notify the patient's legal guardian, spouse, parent or parents, or nearest known relative or interested party, if known. If the involuntary hospitalization or admission was without court order, notice shall also be given to the superior court judge for the family division of the superior court in the unit wherein the hospital is located. If the hospitalization or admission was by order of any court, the head of the hospital admitting or discharging an individual shall forthwith make a report thereof to the commissioner and to the court which entered the order for hospitalization or admission. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1977, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 150.)
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