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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 4. HABILITATION OF THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED GENERALLY · Article 2. PROCEDURES FOR OBTAINING SERVICES FROM THE DEPARTMENT · Part 2. COURT ORDERED SERVICES

37-4-44. Periodic review of individualized program plan; discharge or transfer to another facility upon change in client’s needs; notice of discharge or transfer.

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

  1. (a)

    Each individualized program plan shall be reviewed at regular intervals to determine the client’s progress toward the stated goals and objectives of the plan and to determine whether the plan should be modified because of the client’s present level of performance. These reviews should be based upon relevant progress notes in the client’s clinical record and upon other related information, and a reasonable effort shall be made to obtain and utilize input from the client and his representatives.#

  2. (b)

    Any time a client is found by the person in charge of the client’s habilitation no longer to be in need of services from the department, the client shall be discharged.#

  3. (c)

    At least 14 days before discharge of the client or transfer of the client pursuant to a modification of his program plan, notice of such action shall be given to the client, his representatives, and, if the client’s program plan was ordered by a court, to the court which entered such order.#

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.

History

Ga. L. 1919, p. 377, § 6; Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, § 41; Code 1933, § 35-306; Code 1933, § 88-2509, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-2508, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1826, § 1.

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

Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, page 235; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.