hospital facility

Movement from the hospital facility is not at will; it is only authorized through the treating doctor or by the patient discharging himself.

“I deal next with the facility's leave regime because I understand that an impression may exist that the facility is a place a patient may enter and leave at will. That impression would be false. ... there is only one or two ways that a person could leave, on the pass of the treating doctor or ... if the person discharges himself”