Section 51.64. Reports of death required; penalty; assessment.

 

(1)  In this section:

(a) “Physical restraint" includes all of the following:

1. A locked room.

2. A device or garment that interferes with an individual's freedom of movement and that the individual is unable to remove easily.

3. Restraint by a treatment facility staff member of a person admitted or committed to the treatment facility, by use of physical force.

(b) “Psychotropic medication" means an antipsychotic, antidepressant, lithium carbonate or a tranquilizer.

(2)  

(a) No later than 24 hours after the death of a person admitted or committed to a treatment facility, the treatment facility shall report the death to the department if one of the following applies:

1. There is reasonable cause to believe that the death was related to the use of physical restraint or a psychotropic medication.

3. There is reasonable cause to believe that the death was a suicide.

1989 a. 336 .