225.15 - EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT.
225.15 EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT.
When a respondent arrives at the state psychiatric hospital, the
admitting physician shall examine the respondent and determine
whether or not, in the physician's judgment, the respondent is a fit
subject for observation, treatment, and hospital care. If, upon
examination, the physician decides that the respondent should be
admitted to the hospital, the respondent shall be provided a proper
bed in the hospital; and the physician who has charge of the
respondent shall proceed with observation, medical treatment, and
hospital care as in the physician's judgment are proper and
necessary, in compliance with sections 229.13 to 229.16.
A proper and competent nurse shall also be assigned to look after
and care for the respondent during observation, treatment, and care.
Observation, treatment, and hospital care under this section which
are payable in whole or in part by a county shall only be provided as
determined through the central point of coordination process. Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, § 3969; C39, § 3482.15; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62,
66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 225.15] Section History: Recent Form
96 Acts, ch 1183, § 10; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, §33
Referred to in § 225.16, 225.17