SOP 508.25-att-4: Notification of Involuntary Hospitalization Due Process Committee Hearing
Summary
Key Topics
- involuntary hospitalization
- due process hearing
- mental health committee
- psychiatric hospitalization
- mental health advocacy
- offender advocate
- due process rights
- hospitalization criteria
- mental health services
- hospitalization notification
Full Text
SOP 508.25
Attachment 4
8/2/22
# Notification of Involuntary Hospitalization Due Process Committee Hearing
Date: ___________________
To: ID # _______________________________
Offender Name
From: ______________________________ ______________________________
Mental Health Unit Manager Facility
RE: Mental Health Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization Due Process Committee Hearing
This is to advise you that a due process committee will meet on at hours in
the following location: ________________________________. The purpose of the meeting is to
determine whether you meet the criteria for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
A representative from the GDC Mental Health Staff, _________________________________,
has been appointed to assist you as your advocate. The assistance of this staff member will be
limited to helping you to verbalize your reasons for refusal of the hospitalization.
Form no. M65-01-04 Page 1 of 1
Retention Schedule: Completed forms will be given to the offender, a copy will be given to the Psychiatric Hospital,
and a copy will be placed in the offender’s mental health file (section 5) and medical file (section 5). At the end of the
offender’s need for mental health services and/or sentence, the mental health file will be placed within the offender’s
health record and retained for 10 years.