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If you are a voluntary patient, you have the right to request your release from the hospital by writing a "three-day letter." The hospital must inform you of your right to ask to be released from the hospital. You write a three-day letter by asking in writing for your release from the hospital. If you ask for help, the hospital must provide you with help in making this request. Your letter can be short. Write your letter to the hospital Medical Director and state that you want to leave. Hospital staff, with approval from your county Mental Health Board, will decide whether or not to release you or to ask the court for an order to keep you at the hospital.
After you hand in your three-day letter, the hospital has three work days (Monday through Friday - not weekends and holidays) to tell you whether or not you should leave. It is important to know that, even if you signed yourself in voluntarily, hospital staff can keep you if they think you should stay by filing papers to try to commit you. One of three things can happen after you sign a three-day letter:
- Hospital agrees you should leave: If the hospital agrees that you should be released, you get to leave; OR
- Hospital wants you to stay: When the hospital staff wants to keep you longer, they must file papers (called an affidavit) within three work days of receiving your letter. Your request for release becomes a request for a hearing. You will receive notice of a court hearing; OR
- If the hospital does not file an affidavit within three work days, you must be released immediately.
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