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Forensic Psychiatry: Mobile Crisis Records in NY Litigation

Stephan M. Carlson, MD, MBA, FAPA · Emergency Psychiatry and Civil Commitment

A mobile-crisis encounter on a sidewalk is not a hospital admission, yet its note often becomes the first dated record of psychiatric crisis a court ever sees. The forensic problem is that outreach documentation is built to start an intervention, not to withstand cross-examination about what it proves. What outreach authority in New York actually authorizes Street psychiatry and mobile-crisis work in New York operate under a specific grant of power, and the statute defines its edges narrowly. Under Mental Hygiene Law §9.58, a physician or qualified mental health professional on an approved mobile crisis outreach team may remove, or direct the removal of, a person who appears mentally ill and

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