218.92 - PATIENTS WITH DANGEROUS MENTAL DISTURBANCES.
218.92 PATIENTS WITH DANGEROUS MENTAL DISTURBANCES.
When a patient in a state resource center for persons with mental
retardation, a state mental health institute, or another institution
under the administration of the department of human services has
become so mentally disturbed as to constitute a danger to self, to
other patients or staff of the institution, or to the public, and the
institution cannot provide adequate security, the administrator in
charge of the institution, with the consent of the director of the
Iowa department of corrections, may order the patient to be
transferred to the Iowa medical and classification center, if the
superintendent of the institution from which the patient is to be
transferred, with the support of a majority of the medical staff,
recommends the transfer in the interest of the patient, other
patients, or the public. If the patient transferred was hospitalized
pursuant to sections 229.6 to 229.15, the transfer shall be promptly
reported to the court that ordered the hospitalization of the
patient, as required by section 229.15, subsection 5. The Iowa
medical and classification center has the same rights, duties, and
responsibilities with respect to the patient as the institution from
which the patient was transferred had while the patient was
hospitalized in the institution. The cost of the transfer shall be
paid from the funds of the institution from which the transfer is
made. Section History: Early Form
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 218.92; 82 Acts, ch 1100, § 5]
Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 96, § 69, 159; 89 Acts, ch 83, § 34; 94 Acts, ch 1170,
§33; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §29, 51
See also § 226.30