Emergency Admission
Emergency Admission
If a person is found to be the mentally ill and with a risk of causing harm to self and others, hospitalization of the presumed mentally ill patient at a psychiatric institution can be requested with consents from a doctor and a police officer.
This case of emergency Admission must be switched to another type of Admission for continuous treatment or discharged within 3 days.
Emergency Admission Flow
- 1 Detection of Mentally ill Patient
- 2 Request for Emergent Hospitalization (In event of an emergent situation in which an assumed mentally ill patient has the risk of causing harm to self and others)
- 3 Escort by Police Officer and Paramedic
- 4 Emergent Hospitalization for 3 Days
- Request for Hospitalization (if hospitalization is necessary)
- 5 Necessity for Hospitalization
- YES
6 Switch of Hospitalization Type
- NO
6 Continuation of Hospitalization
- YES