225C.17 - ALTERNATIVE DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY.
225C.17 ALTERNATIVE DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY.
If a county is not served by a community mental health center
having the capacity to perform the required preliminary diagnostic
evaluations, the board of supervisors shall arrange for the
evaluations to be performed by an alternative diagnostic facility for
the period until the county is served by a community mental health
center with the capacity to provide that service. An alternative
diagnostic facility may be the outpatient service of a state mental
health institute or any other mental health facility or service able
to furnish the requisite professional skills to properly perform a
preliminary diagnostic evaluation of a person whose admission to a
state mental health institute is being sought or considered on either
a voluntary or an involuntary basis. Section History: Early Form
[C79, 81, § 225B.7; S81, § 225C.16; 81 Acts, ch 78, § 18, 20]
Referred to in § 225C.12, 225C.14, 225C.15, 331.382