Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 36A. TEMPORARY HEALTH CARE PLACEMENT DECISION MAKER FOR AN ADULT

31-36A-5. Certification by physician.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

An attending physician, treating physician, or other physician licensed according to the laws of the State of Georgia, after having personally examined an adult, may certify in the adult’s medical records the following:
(1)
The adult is unable to consent for himself or herself; and#
(2)
It is the physician’s belief that it is in the adult’s best interest to be discharged from a hospital, institution, medical center, or other health care institution providing health or personal care for treatment of any type of physical or mental condition and to be transferred to or admitted to an alternative facility or placement, including, but not limited to, nursing facilities, assisted living communities, personal care homes, rehabilitation facilities, and home and community based programs.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 31-36A-5, enacted by Ga. L. 1999, p. 485, § 5; Ga. L. 2011, p. 227, § 21/SB 178.

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