2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 25 - INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE
CHAPTER 10 - HOSPITALIZATION OF MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
25-10-127. Convalescent status; discharge; readmittance.

(a) After providing fourteen (14) days notice to the court and county attorney who initiated involuntary hospitalization procedures, the hospital may release an improved patient on convalescent status. Release on convalescent status shall include a plan of treatment on an outpatient or nonhospital basis and other provisions for continuing responsibility to and by the hospital. Prior to the end of one (1) year on convalescent status, and not less than annually thereafter, the hospital shall reexamine the facts relating to the hospitalization of the patient on convalescent status and if the hospital determines hospitalization is no longer anticipated, the hospital shall discharge the patient and make a report of discharge to the court and county attorney involved in ordering the hospitalization, if any.

(b) The hospital from which the patient is given convalescent status may readmit to the hospital an involuntary hospitalized patient who has been released on convalescent status if the hospital reasonably believes that it is in the best interests of the patient. The person readmitted shall have all the rights he had upon admission to the hospital. Upon readmission he shall be given notice of his rights pursuant to W.S. 25-10-116. It is the responsibility of the hospital to provide or pay for any transportation or other services in connection with any revocation of a convalescent status.

(c) The hospital shall discharge any patient who has remained on convalescent status for a period of two (2) continuous years.

(d) This section shall not apply to a person who has been committed to the hospital pursuant to a criminal proceeding.