A hospital or mental hospital can legally hold you involuntarily for up to 72 hours if they see you as a danger to yourself or others.
After 72 hours the hospital can get a court order to hold you longer if they deem it necessary and a Judge signs off on it.
However if they don't get that court order or pink slip you within 72 hours then they cannot legally hold you any longer against your will.
A mental hospital can legally keep you for up to 72 hours.
After 72 hours the mental hospital must release you or get a court order to keep you longer than the 72 hours or 3 days.
The 72 Hour Rule. In most states, an involuntary psychiatric commitment cannot extend beyond 72 hours without a formal hearing.
This 3-day period allows patients to receive basic medical treatment, recover from psychotic episodes and hopefully understand the need for further help.
A suicidal patient can leave the hospital and simply walk out of the hospital.
That is unless the suicidal patient has been pink slipped or has been court ordered to stay in the mental hospital.
You can leave a mental hospital without being discharged if you've been voluntary committed to the mental hospital.
If you checked yourself into the mental hospital then you're free to leave at any time even without being discharged.
But if you've been involuntary committed to the mental hospital then you have to be discharged within 72 hours or an order has to be obtained to hold you longer.
To get someone mental help if they refuse in Ohio or other states you have to get a Judge to order the person into mental health or be involuntarily committed.
However the person must be a danger to themselves or to others before they can be forced into mental help or a mental hospital.
Otherwise a person can refuse mental treatment if they want too.
The grounds for involuntary commitment into a mental health hospital or psych ward is if a person is a danger to themselves or others.
Or if the person is not solely diagnosed with one of the following mental disorders: anti-social personality disorder; mental retardation; organic personality syndrome; or an organic mental disorder.
If you've admitted yourself into the metal hospital voluntarily then you can get yourself discharged against medical advice.
Unless the mental hospital has pink slipped you or has a court order to hold you longer.
If you were admitted voluntarily, you may have the option of checking out against medical advice; which, in other words means, if you feel you are ready to leave the hospital on your own without a "green light" from your doctor, you maybe be allowed to go.
You cannot legally leave a mental health hospital without being discharged unless you've gotten yourself discharged if you were voluntarily admitted to the mental hospital.
The mental health hospital can legally hold you for up to 72 hours before they either have to get another order to hold you longer or they have to let you go.
If you do walk out of the mental hospital somehow and you haven't been discharged the the police will be out looking for you.
Then when they find you they will have to legally take you back to the mental hospital.
The way you get pinked slipped in a mental hospital or psych ward is when you do something that causes the staff to see you as a threat to yourself or others.
For example if you were to tell people in the mental hospital or psych ward that you want to kill yourself or you want to harm others then that can get you pink slipped.
Pink-slipping of a mental patient speeds up the process, giving the power to involuntarily commit a mentally unstable person to someone other than a judge.
The two-page form (it is pink) declares a person "represents a risk of physical harm" to themselves or others and that he or she would benefit from hospital treatment.
A hospital cannot hold you against your will unless it's a mental hospital.
The only hospital that can hold you against your will is a mental health hospital or a hospital that has a mental health psych ward inside it.
And even then you have to be admitted to the mental health portion or psych ward of the hospital before they can legally hold you against your will.
The hospital can pink slip you which means they can legally hold you against your will when they see you as a threat to the public, yourself etc.
And then if you somehow walk out of the mental hospital then the staff will contact the police to find you and legally bring you back.
If in a mental hospital you have to be discharged before you can legally leave the mental hospital.
The mental hospital can legally hold you against your will for up to 72 hours and unless they get a court order to hold you any longer then the mental hospital must legally let you go.
However like mentioned above if you're just in a regular hospital for an illness or health issue etc then you can legally walk out of the hospital at anytime.
However if it's a child and no parent is around then they can legally hold the child against their will until the parents get there and they discharge the child or the parent walks out with the child.
The parent can legally take the child out of the hospital and take them home or to another hospital if they want too.