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Committee hears bills to add advocates to recipients-rights advisory panel and require written rights notices for voluntary psychiatric patients
Summary
Representative Thompson introduced House Bills 4218 and 4219, saying they respond to an Auditor General investigation and would add disability and advocacy organizations to MDHHS's Recipient Rights Advisory Committee and require written notice of rights for voluntarily hospitalized psychiatric patients.
Representative Thompson introduced House Bills 4218 and 4219 to the House Health Policy Committee, saying the measures respond to an ongoing Auditor General investigation and aim to strengthen oversight of patient protections in psychiatric care.
Thompson said HB4218 would add Disability Rights Michigan, The Arc of Michigan and the Mental Health Association in Michigan as permanent members of the Recipient Rights Advisory Committee within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). "Recipient rights. The patient is the recipient of that care. Therefore, we must have transparency and oversight," Thompson said, adding the bill would prohibit MDHHS executive office staff from serving on the advisory committee.
Mary Anne Huff of the…
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