N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law Section 9.11
Patients’ records

Except as to informal patients and patients admitted pursuant to section 9.39 or 9.40, the director of a hospital shall within five days, excluding Sunday and holidays, after the admission of any patient forward to the mental hygiene legal service a record of such patient and shall simultaneously forward to the department such information from the record as the commissioner by regulation shall require. Such information from the record in the department shall be accessible only in the manner set forth in section 33.13. * NB Effective until July 1, 2027 * § 9.11 Patients’ records. Except as to informal patients and patients admitted pursuant to section 9.39, the director of a hospital shall within five days, excluding Sunday and holidays, after the admission of any patient forward to the mental hygiene legal service a record of such patient and shall simultaneously forward to the department such information from the record as the commissioner by regulation shall require. Such information from the record in the department shall be accessible only in the manner set forth in section 33.13. * NB Effective July 1, 2027

Source: Section 9.11 — Patients' records, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/MHY/9.­11 (updated May 3, 2024; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

9.01
Definitions 9.03
Admission to a hospital 9.05
Examining physicians and medical certificates 9.07
Notice to all patients of their rights and of the availability of the mental hygiene legal service 9.09
Notices to mental hygiene legal service concerning minors 9.11
Patients’ records 9.13
Voluntary admissions 9.15
Informal admissions 9.17
Voluntary and informal admissions 9.19
Voluntary and informal admissions 9.21
Voluntary and informal admissions 9.23
Voluntary and informal admissions 9.25
Voluntary and informal admissions 9.27
Involuntary admission on medical certification 9.29
Involuntary admission on medical certification 9.31
Involuntary admission on medical certification 9.33
Court authorization to retain an involuntary patient 9.35
Review of court authorization to retain an involuntary patient 9.37
Involuntary admission on certificate of a director of community services or his designee 9.39
Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care, and treatment 9.40
Emergency observation, care and treatment in comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs 9.41
Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and treatment 9.43
Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and treatment 9.45
Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and treatment 9.46
Reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals 9.47
Duties of local officers in regard to their persons with a mental illness 9.48
Duties of directors of assisted outpatient treatment programs 9.49
Transfer of juvenile delinquents 9.51
Residential treatment facilities for children and youth 9.53
Children in the custody of social services officials or the division for youth 9.55
Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care and treatment 9.57
Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care and treatment 9.58
Transport for evaluation 9.59
Immunity from liability 9.60
Assisted outpatient treatment 9.63
Transportation of persons to or between hospitals
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Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
May 3, 2024

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