Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-3307

Definitions - Chief of service - Admission, release and transfer of

patients.

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A. It shall be the policy of the State and is the intent of

this section to provide the citizens of Oklahoma with a diagnostic

and remedial psychiatry and neurology service, to provide the School

of Medicine of the University of Oklahoma with a means of furnishing

professional education and research in psychiatry and neurology, to

provide for the administration and use of the facilities, located in

the University Hospital, for this purpose.

B. The following terms when used in this section shall mean as

herein defined:

1. "University Hospitals" shall include University Hospital,

Oklahoma Children's Hospital and any and all inpatient and

outpatient hospital and clinical facilities and office and research

buildings, facilities or property owned by or under the management

and control of the University Hospitals Authority or the University

Hospitals Trust;

2. "Psychiatry and Neurology Service" shall mean the diagnostic

and therapeutic service for mental patients established in the

psychiatric and neurological facilities of the University Hospital;

3. "Psychiatric and neurological facilities" shall mean the

psychiatry and neurology unit of the University Hospital and such

ancillary facilities as may be necessary for its operation;

4. "Chief" shall mean the Chief of the Psychiatry and Neurology

Service;

5. "School of Medicine" shall mean the School of Medicine of

the University of Oklahoma Medical Center; and

6. "Board" shall mean the Board of Regents of the University of

Oklahoma.

C. The psychiatry and neurology unit (commonly called the

neuro-psychiatric unit) of the University Hospital shall be such

clinics and laboratories of the University Hospital as may be

required, together with the psychiatric and neurological facilities

of the School of Medicine and the University Hospital.

D. The Board shall establish a Psychiatry and Neurology Service

in the psychiatric and neurological facilities, to be used as a

training and research unit for the teaching of psychiatry and

neurology. The Service shall be established and operated under such

conditions and terms as may be instituted by the School of Medicine

and University Hospital with the approval of the Board and subject

to the provisions of this section.

E. The Board shall appoint a full time Chief of Psychiatry and

Neurology Service. The Chief of Psychiatry and Neurology Service

shall be:

1. Licensed to practice medicine in this state and shall be

qualified to supervise residency training and shall meet the

standards established by the American Board of Psychiatry and

Neurology or its successor;

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2. Appointed as a member of the faculty of the School of

Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology; and

3. In charge of the Psychiatry and Neurology Service, subject

to the general policies and direction of the University Hospital

administration.

F. The admission of patients to the University Hospital

Psychiatry and Neurology Service and the trial release of patients

shall be based on the following criteria:

1. Admission shall be on the basis of the teaching needs, and

requirements of the School of Medicine, in accordance with

regulations approved by the Board;

2. Admission shall be in conformity with the mental health laws

providing for the admission of mental patients to mental hospitals;

3. "Trial release" from inpatient to outpatient status is

authorized in conformity with the state mental health laws in

recognition of special therapeutic requirements of certain mental

patients as determined by the Chief. Such trial release shall be in

the custody of the responsible relative or guardian; and

4. In case such custody is not assumed by the responsible

relative or guardian within one week after written notice from the
atient status is

authorized in conformity with the state mental health laws in

recognition of special therapeutic requirements of certain mental

patients as determined by the Chief. Such trial release shall be in

the custody of the responsible relative or guardian; and

4. In case such custody is not assumed by the responsible

relative or guardian within one week after written notice from the

Chief, the patient may be committed or transferred by the Director

of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to

the appropriate state mental hospital.

G. 1. Authority is hereby provided for the transfer of any

patient of the psychiatric and neurological facilities and services

of the University Hospital to a component facility of the Department

of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and for the transfer

of any patient of a component facility of that Department to the

University Hospital psychiatric and neurological facilities and

services under such procedures as the Department and the School of

Medicine may adopt, subject to the provisions of this section and

the mental health laws of this state.

2. The transfer of such patients shall be for the following

purposes:

a. to provide necessary patients for the teaching of

diagnosis and therapy of mental illness, according to

the needs of the School of Medicine,

b. to make special diagnostic and/or therapeutic measures

available to the patients, and

c. to maintain the Psychiatry and Neurology Service of

the University Hospital as a short term diagnostic and

therapeutic facility.

3. The procedure for transfer of patients provided for in this

subsection and in paragraph 4 of subsection F of this section shall

be determined by a board of three (3) members, one each to be

appointed by the Director of the Department of Mental Health and

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Substance Abuse Services, the Superintendent of the University

Hospital, and the State Commissioner of Health.

H. The discharge of certified patients from the Psychiatry and

Neurology Service shall be determined by the consensus of a board of

three (3) members from the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology

including the Chief. The Chief shall notify the court, which

certified the patient originally, that the Board has concluded that

the patient so certified is mentally well and is being discharged.