Pennsylvania Statutes Title 50 P.S. Mental Health § 4602. Record of persons admitted or committed

(a) Whenever a person is admitted or committed to any facility or receives services or benefits at a facility under any provision of this act, a complete record pertaining to such person shall be maintained by the facility. Such record shall include, if available, but need not be limited to, applications, petitions, affidavits, orders of court, reports of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, police records, financial records, and all clinical records or a full abstract thereof containing all essential particulars, including results of physical examinations, examinations for mental disability, laboratory tests, and any other material with reference to such person.

(b) Whenever he is transferred to any other facility pursuant to any provision of this act a copy of all pertinent records pertaining to such person shall accompany him.

(c) Whenever a person who has previously received services or benefits at a facility is later given services or benefits at another facility the first facility shall, upon request from the subsequent facility, furnish a copy of all pertinent records pertaining to such person.

(d) Any record, or portion thereof, so maintained shall be open to inspection and examination only to those persons designated by the director of a facility at which such person has been admitted or committed or at which he is receiving services or benefits, and as to those facilities under the control of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or local authorities to such other persons as the secretary by regulation may determine.