Name/Title
Law Suit: Memo to Hospital PersonnelEntry/Object ID
2014.2.3348 A-BScope and Content
A memorandum from Dr. Liam O'Brien, M. D., TO: Hospital Personnel, dated Feb. 4, 1974, SUBJECT: Patients' Rights. It is on St. Joseph State Hospital letterhead. In the right hand corner of the letter is a handwritten notation 'Mrs. Buckley Vol. Service'. Stapled to it is a copy of the two page unnumbered HOUSE BILL ____ 77th General Assembly.Context
Hospital Personnel
Attached please find Bill that is presently being introduced
to the Missouri State Legislature to do with the above.
I think that in most instances, we have been doing most of what
is recommended. I think the Bill will eventually be passed, but
stress that at the present time it has not been written into law.
LO'B
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A BILL
To repeal section 202.847 and enact a new section relating to patients' rights.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri as follows:
Section 202.847. Right to communication and visitation - - - exercise
of civil rights. 1. Subject to the general rules and regulations of the hospital
and except . . . . every patient shall be entitled:
[(1) To communicate by sealed mail or otherwise with persons . . . .
. . . . or outside the hospital;]
(1) To send and receive sealed mail; . . . have . . access to writing martials, postage
and to pay telephones;
(2) To receive visitors [and] ;
(3) To wear their own clothing . . . . ;
(4) To keep and display appropriate personal belongings;
(5) To have regular physical exercise and,
(6) To take part in religious worship in accordance with their beliefs and . . . special
diets to meet their religious needs.
[(3)] 2. Any limitations imposed by the head of the hospital . . . shall be made a part of the clinical record of the patient.
[2. Notwithstanding any limitations authorized under this section . . .
. . . which ordered his hospitalization.]
3. Notwithstanding any limitations authorized under this section every patient shall be entitled;
(1) To have adequate mental health services . . . regardless of race, creed, religion,
culture, sex or age.
(2) To be told upon inquiry . . .what medications they are taking.
(3) To have a nutritious diet . . . Food may not be stopped . . . as a punishment or . . . treatment.
(4) To bee free from research procedures or experiments without . . .
[2] (5) To communicate by sealed mail with the . . , . . , . . , which ordered his hospitalization, . .
and any person having the power to discharge the patient.
[3] (7) To exercise al civil rights, including the right to . . . . . . . and vote unless he has been adjudicated incompetent and has not been restored to legal capacity.Lexicon
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