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- The right to be informed of the Client’s
Bill of Rights.
- The right to confidentiality of conversations
and medical records, subject to the provisions of
52.30 of the State Mental Health Act which states:
(a) Access without informed written consent. Notwithstanding
par. (b) treatment records of an individual except
as restricted without informed written consent in
the following circumstances, except as restricted
under par. (c) 1. to an individual, organization
or management audits, financial audits or program
monitoring and evaluation.
- The right to receive wages for work performed
which involves the operation and maintenance of
the facility except for matters of personal care
(e.g. making one’s bed, etc.) or for therapeutic
purposes.
- The right to petition a court according to law.
- The right to maintain the rights of a citizen
(e.g. voting, marriage, obtaining a driver’s
license, etc.)
- The right to receive prompt and adequate treatment.
- The right to receive medication and treatment
on a voluntary basis prior to court hearings or
commitment.
- The right to the least restrictive treatment
conditions necessary.
- The right to have an informal hearing prior (except
in emergencies) to being transferred to a more restrictive
ward, unit or facility.
- The right to be free from unnecessary or excessive
medication.
- The right to be free from physical restraint and
involuntary isolation.
- The right not to receive psychosurgery, electro
convulsive treatment, adversive conditioning, etc.
- The right to religious worship.
- The right not to participate in experimental
research.
- The right to a humane psychological and physical
environment.
- The right to send and receive sealed mail and
to use a telephone.
- The right to select, use and wear own clothes,
etc.
- The right to have individual storage space for
private use.
- The right to privacy in dressing, toileting and
bathing.
- The right to receive visitors.
No client rights will be denied unless the Director
or designee of the facility has reason to believe
that the exercise of the right would create a security
problem, adversely affect the clients’ treatment
or seriously interfere with the rights or safety of
others. When a client’s right is to be denied,
it will be according to the established procedure
and conditions of Wisconsin Statute HSS94.05.
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