N.J. Admin. Code § 8:135-2.1

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 23, December 2, 2024

Section 8:135-2.1 - Statement, purpose, and scope

(a) The Division recognizes that the management of some patients within the State psychiatric hospital system requires a more comprehensive and complete evaluation of the clinical, judicial, and administrative factors relevant to the development and implementation of those patients' treatment plans.

(b) The purpose of this subchapter is to:

1. Establish a procedure by which hospital staff are to comprehensively review a special status patient's clinical treatment and management by ensuring appropriate treatment interventions and planning when the patient moves to a less restrictive setting, the patient's structures and security decrease, or the patient is discharged; and

2. Ensure that hospital staff conduct an appropriate risk/benefit assessment balancing the patient's need for effective treatment and the safety needs of all parties when special status patients are given privileges.

(c) Nothing in this subchapter alters the responsibility of hospital staff to comply with the provisions of valid court orders regarding specific patients and the Patient Bill of Rights at N.J.S.A. 30:4-24.2.

(d) Special status patients are those who satisfy the definition of the term at N.J.A.C. 8:135-1.2.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:135-2.1

Amended by R.1993 d.58, effective 2/1/1993.
See: 24 New Jersey Register 4232(a), 25 New Jersey Register 583(b).
In (b), added text to clarify responsibility of hospital staff.
Amended by R.1998 d.62, effective 1/20/1998.
See: 29 New Jersey Register 3763(b), 30 New Jersey Register 386(a).
In (b), added "and to insure that hospital staff conduct an appropriate risk/benefit assessment balancing the patient's need for effective treatment and the safety needs of all parties when special status patients are given privileges" at the end of the first sentence, and added a reference to the Patient Bill of Rights at the end of the second sentence.
Amended by R.2003 d.236, effective 7/7/2003.
See: 34 New Jersey Register 4290(a), 35 New Jersey Register 2903(a).
Rewrote the section.

Amended and recodified from 10:36-2.1 by 55 N.J.R. 2258(b), effective 11/9/2023