R.I. Gen. Laws § 40.1-5.3-2

Current through 2024 Public Law 457

Section 40.1-5.3-2 - Transfers between state-operated hospitals

Whenever any person committed, transferred, or removed to either the Rhode Island State Psychiatric Hospital or the Eleanor Slater Hospital to the facility provided for in § 40.1-5.3-1 shall have recovered his or her mental health sufficiently, the director may, upon request of the chief executive officer or the chief medical officer of either state-operated hospital, discharge the person from the first hospital and then admit the person to the general units of either the Rhode Island State Psychiatric Hospital or Eleanor Slater Hospital, as the case may be.

Amended by 2022 Pub. Laws, ch. 231,§ 11-8, eff. 6/27/2022.

P.L. 1973, ch. 175, § 2: G.L. 1956, § 26-4-2; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1.