California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 6002.35

WIC § 6002.35Div. 6 · Part 1 · Ch. 1

Statute text

(a)It shall be the responsibility of the psychiatrist conducting the independent clinical review to keep a record of the proceeding.

(b)After considering all the clinical information, the psychiatrist conducting the review shall render a binding decision. If he or she determines that further inpatient treatment is reasonably likely to be beneficial to the minor’s disorder and placement in the facility represents the least restrictive, most appropriate available setting in which to treat the minor, the minor’s inpatient treatment shall be authorized.

(c)If the psychiatrist conducting the review determines that the admission criteria have been met, this determination shall terminate when the minor is discharged from the facility.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1375, Sec. 6.