Mississippi Code
Persons in Need of Mental Treatment
§ 41-21-99. Continued care of patients

The director shall obtain all the available facts relative to the illness of each patient admitted to said treatment facility. The director or a physician on the staff of said treatment facility shall, as often as practicable but not less frequently than every six (6) months, examine the patient and review the records as to the need for continued treatment of each patient and make the results of such examination a part of the patient's clinical record. The patient shall have the right to request a hearing at least annually, pursuant to Section 41-21-83. The patient shall be advised of his right to request a hearing and of his right to consult an attorney prior to his decision concerning whether or not to request such hearing, and the fact that the patient has been so advised shall be documented in the clinical record.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 41 - Public Health

Chapter 21 - Individuals with Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability

Persons in Need of Mental Treatment

§ 41-21-61. Definitions

§ 41-21-67. Person to be taken into custody; community mental health center as first point of entry for pre-evaluation screening and treatment; referral to crisis intervention team; appointment of examining physicians, or physician and psychologist,...

§ 41-21-70. Development of standards for training of psychiatrists and psychologists to perform mental examinations ordered under Section 99-13-11 and MRCrP 12; publication of list of psychiatrists and psychologists so trained

§ 41-21-71. Procedure after examination; release or confinement pending hearing

§ 41-21-73. Procedures for hearing; evidence; witnesses; commitment; disposition and findings

§ 41-21-76. Waiver of rights by respondent

§ 41-21-77. Commitment to state hospital or Veterans Administration facility

§ 41-21-79. Payment of costs

§ 41-21-81. Twenty days' observation, diagnosis and treatment; notice of need for further treatment; right to hearing on need for further treatment

§ 41-21-82. Report prior to termination of initial commitment or discharge

§ 41-21-83. Hearing on need for further treatment

§ 41-21-85. Payment of costs of hearing on need for further treatment

§ 41-21-88. Release of individual acquitted on the ground of insanity and ordered confined to psychiatric hospital or institution; notice of release to be given to certain individuals

§ 41-21-89. Discharge at behest of patient, attorney, relative or guardian

§ 41-21-91. Deportation of nonresidents

§ 41-21-93. Warrant for patient absent without authorization

§ 41-21-95. Payment of costs incurred in transporting discharged patients home or returning patients on unauthorized leave

§ 41-21-97. Confidentiality of hospital records and information; exceptions

§ 41-21-99. Continued care of patients

§ 41-21-101. Admissions and commitments not adjudication of incompetency

§ 41-21-104. Continuing jurisdiction of court over person committed to inpatient or outpatient treatment for one year after treatment completed; recommitment

§ 41-21-107. Criminal offenses

§ 41-21-109. Rehabilitation facilities for adolescents with mental illness or with an intellectual disability; establishment