[§334-44] Emergency transportation initiated by a health care provider. (a) Any licensed physician, advanced practice registered nurse, physician assistant, licensed clinical social worker, or psychologist who has examined an individual and determines that the individual is mentally ill or suffering from substance abuse and is imminently dangerous to self or others may direct a law enforcement officer to detain and transport the individual by ambulance or other suitable means to a psychiatric facility or other facility designated by the director for an emergency examination, and may administer treatment, within the examining health care provider's scope of practice, as necessary for the individual's safe transportation. The examining health care provider shall provide a written statement of circumstances and reasons necessitating the emergency examination. The written statement shall be transmitted with the individual to the psychiatric facility or other facility designated by the director and be made a part of the individual's clinical record.
(b) Any individual who is subject to an order for assisted community treatment and fails to comply with the order for assisted community treatment, despite reasonable efforts made by a designated assisted community treatment provider, as defined in section 334-122, to solicit compliance, may be transported to a psychiatric facility or other facility designated by the director for an emergency examination if it is in the clinical judgment of a licensed physician, advanced practice registered nurse, physician assistant, licensed clinical social worker, or psychologist that the individual may be in need of emergency hospitalization pursuant to section 334-46. At the direction of the examining health care provider, a law enforcement officer may detain and transport the individual by ambulance or other suitable means to a psychiatric facility or other facility designated by the director. The examining health care provider shall provide a written statement of circumstances and reasons explaining why the individual may be in need of emergency hospitalization. The written statement shall be transmitted with the individual to the psychiatric facility or other facility designated by the director and be made a part of the individual's clinical record.
(d) The examining health care provider shall also provide a copy of the written statement required under this section to the department within five business days. [L 2025, c 219, pt of §3]