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prevention; maintenance of safe, affordable housing in normative | | settings that promote well-being; establishment of natural support | | networks to combat isolation and withdrawal; the minimizing of | | involvement with the criminal justice system; individual recovery | | education; and services to enable the person to function at a work | | site. Assertive community treatment is provided by | | multidisciplinary teams who are on duty 24 hours per day, 7 days | | per week; teams must include a psychiatrist, registered nurse, | | certified rehabilitation counselor or certified employment | | specialist, a peer recovery specialist and a substance abuse | | counselor and may include an occupational therapist, community- | | based mental health rehabilitation technician, psychologist, | | licensed clinical social worker or licensed clinical professional | | counselor.__An ACT team member who is a state employee is, while in | | good faith performing a function as a member of an ACT team, | | performing a discretionary function within the meaning of Title 14, | | section 8104-B, subsection 3. |
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| | | Sec. BBBB-4. 34-B MRSA §3832, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1983, c. 580, | | §10, is further amended to read: |
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| | | 1. Patient's right. A patient admitted under section 3831 is | free to leave the hospital at any time after admission without | undue delay following examination by a licensed physician or a | licensed clinical psychologist, except that | | the patient's request unless application for admission of the | person under section 3863 is not precluded, if at any time such | an admission is considered necessary in the interest of the | person and of the community |
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| | | Sec. BBBB-5. 34-B MRSA §3863, sub-§2, ¶B, as amended by PL 1997, c. | | 438, §2, is further amended to read: |
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| | | B. The physician, physician's assistant, certified | | psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, nurse practitioner or | | psychologist is of the opinion that the person is mentally | | ill and, because of that illness, poses a likelihood of | | serious harm. The written certificate must include a | | description of the grounds for that opinion. |
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| | | Sec. BBBB-6. 34-B MRSA §3863, sub-§5, ¶¶B and C, as amended by PL 1995, | | c. 496, §2, are further amended to read: |
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| | | B. If the chief administrative officer of the hospital | | determines that admission of the person as an informally admitted | | patient is not suitable, or if the person declines admission as | | an informally admitted patient, the chief administrative officer | | of the hospital may seek involuntary commitment of the patient by | | filing an application for the issuance of an order for | | hospitalization | | under section 3864, |
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