Show 1 There Are Four Ways To Get Admitted By LE ANN BLODGETT if There are four ways people can get admitted to the State Hospital in County Mental Health Department is expected to tenter into the picture should be to the benefit of the prospective the sheriff and the mA PROCEDURES for if emergency where a I if person is judged to be in I danger to himself or those J has been J changed by the County Com p mission and Second District Judge Director of Mental Health Michael Hansen will reduce the number of committals to the hospital and persons will be where through mental health THE NEW concept involves cases requiring a court order for Judge Swan has appointed Mental Health Director Michael Hansen as his special commissioner to advise him concerning the mental health of persons appearing for Bailiff Thomas representing the said he believes the judicial branch would be glad to turn part of the commitment decisions over to Mental Health IS a shocking amount of power to put a person in the state hospital on the stroke of a after an interview with a family said The sheriff is very often in- in handling the dangerously In some in the it has been necessary to take them directly to the One or the provisions of the new concept puts Hansen or his assistants in contact with police His auto will be equipped with a police mobile radio HOPE to treat more using our own says most we can handle the problem right here on a local The Mental Health Department will also be used more effectively in cases where the judge requires mental health PERSONS imprisoned for a felon are required to have mental health In the these persons have been sent to the state hospital for 30 days and the bill has come back to the Hansen crime is a state offense and the state is the one who requests the yet the county gets to pay the The expense also requires about a half-day for two deputies to provide MENTAL Health Department will take this evaluation and therapy eliminating the USH in most The other three ways of insanity committal will remain the One way is where it is the desire of the prospective ia- The second way is a non-judicial process in which two psychiatrists can make application to the This way is used often in geriatric nursing ANOTHER involuntary method is by the use of a A spouse or other person acquainted with the mental behavior of the person in question makes application and the person is examined by a licensed medical doctor who must certify that he believes the patient is mentally ill and needs to be hospitalized to avoid injury to himself or to other That is the most common Admittance to the hospital is used only as a last resort and persons in judgemental generally use a great deal of THE NEW proposal promises to be a benefit to the county as well as to the |