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A 302 can actually be up to 120 hours
303 is up to 20 days
304 is 90
There's also a 305, which I believe is up to 180
And technically a 306, but that has to do with transferring involuntary commitment patients to another facility or something.
Like I said in another comment I work in PA and my wife happens to work at a psych hospital so I get to hear all about this stuff.
Well I’ll be damned.
I also work in pa and while I do outpatient now I worked in inpatient for years. Whoops! To be fair it’s been years since I did hospital stuff and admissions was never my deal. I couldn’t remember the longer ones for the life of me. I could’ve sworn 302 was 72, but you’re definitely right
All good, I always feel like it's 72 hours, and I think the equivalent in most states is only 72 I think we're the odd one out on that, and I feel like in most cases patients managed to get stabilized enough to be discharged after the 72 hours.
I kind of feel like the extra two days are mostly so there's time to get everything set up for a 303 in case the patient tries to fight it and it goes to court. I had to be a witness for that over a call I took once, I only got like a day or two's notice because it all has to happen on such a condensed timeline
Yeah I mean the majority of the time we had them out in 3 days so that’s probably what I’m remembering. I don’t miss those days