Mental health legislation adopted by the Illinois Legislature in 2014By Mark HeyrmanMental Health Law, March 2015During its 2014 session, the Illinois legislature enacted a number of provisions affecting persons with mental illnesses. This article summarizes the most important of these.
Requirement that parents relinquish custody of their children in order to get mental health services addressed by new state lawBy Patricia A. WernerMental Health Law, March 2015For decades, Illinois parents who could not afford intensive mental health services for their child had two options: deny the child needed mental health services or give custody to the Department of Children and Family Services so the child could receive the necessary treatment. A new law that became effective on January 1, 2015 aims to resolve this issue.
Some new (and old) ways to fix the mental health system in IllinoisBy Meryl Sosa & Mark J. HeyrmanMental Health Law, March 2015Hospital emergency rooms throughout Illinois, and across the country, increasingly encounter the problem of "psychiatric boarding"—caring for patients with significant mental health issues in the hospital’s emergency department while waiting for an inpatient hospital bed or transfer to another inpatient facility. This article examines this problem and offers some ways to address it.
Some new (and old) ways to fix the mental health system in IllinoisBy Meryl Sosa & Mark J. HeyrmanHealth Care Law, March 2015Hospital emergency rooms throughout Illinois, and across the country, increasingly encounter the problem of "psychiatric boarding"—caring for patients with significant mental health issues in the hospital’s emergency department while waiting for an inpatient hospital bed or transfer to another inpatient facility. This article examines this problem and offers some ways to address it.
