fizzbuzz1099
From personal experience, in Illinois, someone can receive hospital care involuntarily if the doctors deem that they would deteriorate without intervention / become dangerous to others.
One look at the differences in law between the two is illustrative:
In CA -
To qualify for mandated treatment in a hospital or other inpatient facility, the person must be:
- dangerous to self/others; or - unable to provide for basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter.
in IL:
- be a reasonable expectation of danger to self/others - be unable to provide for basic physical needs so as to guard against serious harm without the assistance of others, OR - refuse or not adhere to treatment, unable to understand need for treatment, and, if not treated, reasonably expected to suffer mental or emotional deterioration and become dangerous and/or unable to provide for basic physical needs
Your sister conceivably wouldn't have reached that state because once she reached the stage in paragraph 3, if you brought her to a hospital in IL, a evaluation would've determined that she should be involuntarily hospitalized, and she would've received medication.