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The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act (Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures in the United States.
5150 is the number of the section of California's Welfare and Institutions Code which allows a person with a mental challenge to be involuntarily detained for a 72-hour psychiatric hospitalization.
California: 5150 (involuntary psychiatric hold) and Laura's Law (providing for court-ordered outpatient treatment) Lanterman–Petris–Short Act, codifying the conditions for and of involuntary commitment in California; Florida: Baker Act and Marchman Act
5150 may refer to: Lanterman–Petris–Short Act § 5150 hold , section 5150 of California's Welfare and Institutions Code By extension, a person who is gravely disabled through mental illness
In 2002, voters of California passed a law mandating that HMOs, which serve nearly 21 million people in California, offer more timely access to medical care. Now the California Department of ...
Current California law forbids the state's medical board from considering victim statements in decision making. Legislation could reform the process. Patients are barred from doctor disciplinary ...
Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient. The original 1974 decision mandated warning the threatened ...
Laura Wilcox was a 19-year-old college sophomore who had been valedictorian of her high school before going on to study at Haverford College. [1] While working at Nevada County's public mental health clinic during her winter break from college, on January 10, 2001, she and two other people were shot to death by Scott Harlan Thorpe, a 40-year-old man who resisted his family's and a social ...