Involuntary psychiatric admission on medical certification under New York Mental Hygiene Law section 9.27 uses the OMH 471 packet. A clinician meets it when an applicant, such as a relative, a treating psychiatrist or a facility director, seeks admission and two examiners must certify that the person needs involuntary care. Each examiner completes a separate OMH 471A certificate, and either can request police or ambulance transport on the OMH 471B.
The applicant completes Part A of the OMH 471. Two examining physicians, or one physician and one psychiatric nurse practitioner, each complete an OMH 471A, and a hospital staff psychiatrist who was not an original examiner completes Part B before admission.
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Application for Involuntary Admission on Medical Certification (with Certificate of Examining Physician or Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner)
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Yes, for one of the two certificates. Admission under section 9.27 needs certificates from two examining physicians, or from one examining physician and one psychiatric nurse practitioner. Examinations may be done jointly, but each practitioner signs a separate certificate.
The certifying examinations must be made within 10 days before the date of admission, and the application must also be made within that 10-day window. A staff psychiatrist at the admitting hospital then confirms the need for involuntary care before admission in Part B.
It lets an examining physician or psychiatric nurse practitioner request, under section 9.27(i), that a peace or police officer or an ambulance service take the person into custody and transport them to the hospital, once both certificates and the application are complete.