A person who meets the criteria for involuntary admission in s. 397.675 may be admitted to a hospital or to a licensed detoxification facility or addictions receiving facility for emergency assessment and stabilization, or to a less intensive component of a licensed service provider for assessment only, upon receipt by the facility of the physician’s certificate and the completion of an application for emergency admission.
Fla. Stat. § 397.679
Emergency admission; circumstances justifying
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