| | |
admitted into evidence and the attorney in fact or guardian | | may provide testimony and evidence to the court in any | | proceeding under this subsection.__The court shall consider | | but is not required to follow any directions within the | | advance directive or durable power of attorney document or | | testimony from the attorney or guardian. |
|
| | | 6.__Repeal.__This section is repealed July 1, 2010. |
|
| | | Sec. BBBB-15. Implementation. Implementation of the progressive | | treatment program under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 34-B, | | section 3873 is subject to the following provisions. |
|
| | | 1. The Department of Health and Human Services shall | | undertake a thorough review of the needs of persons who are | | eligible to participate in the progressive treatment program and | | the resources currently used to provide services to meet those | | needs. The department shall analyze the current costs of | | community-based care and hospitalization in community hospitals | | and state mental health institutes for persons who would be | | eligible to participate in the program. By October 1, 2006 the | | department shall report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health | | and Human Services with proposals for funding the progressive | | treatment program to the maximum extent possible by redirection | | of existing resources and use of funds that will not be needed | | because of participation in the program. |
|
| | | 2. Operation of the progressive treatment program is limited | | for fiscal year 2006-07 to a project that may serve up to a | | maximum of 25 persons who are hospitalized on an involuntary | | basis at the Riverview Psychiatric Center, to be served by a | | combination of state employees and contracted staff, and up to a | | maximum of 25 persons who are hospitalized on an involuntary | | basis at the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, to be served by | | community providers. During fiscal year 2006-07 the development | | of new resources or redirection of existing resources for a new | | assertive community treatment team is limited to one team serving | | persons who were previously hospitalized at Riverview Psychiatric | | Center and one team serving persons who were previously | | hospitalized at the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. |
|
| | | Sec. BBBB-16. Educational and training materials. The Department of Health | | and Human Services shall develop and distribute educational and | | training materials with input from interested consumer, advocacy | | and professional organizations describing assertive community | | treatment, guardianship, advance directives, convalescent status, | | the process for medications for hospitalized patients and the | | progressive treatment program for distribution to the courts, | | judges, providers of mental health |
|
|
