227.11 - TRANSFERS FROM STATE HOSPITALS.
227.11 TRANSFERS FROM STATE HOSPITALS.
A county chargeable with the expense of a patient in a state
hospital for persons with mental illness shall transfer the patient
to a county or private institution for persons with mental illness
that is in compliance with the applicable rules when the
administrator of the division or the administrator's designee orders
the transfer on a finding that the patient is suffering from chronic
mental illness or from senility and will receive equal benefit by
being so transferred. A county shall transfer to its county care
facility any patient in a state hospital for persons with mental
illness upon request of the superintendent of the state hospital in
which the patient is confined pursuant to the superintendent's
authority under section 229.15, subsection 5, and approval by the
board of supervisors of the county of the patient's residence. In no
case shall a patient be thus transferred except upon compliance with
section 229.14A or without the written consent of a relative, friend,
or guardian if such relative, friend, or guardian pays the expense of
the care of such patient in a state hospital. Patients transferred
to a public or private facility under this section may subsequently
be placed on convalescent or limited leave or transferred to a
different facility for continued full-time custody, care, and
treatment when, in the opinion of the attending physician or the
chief medical officer of the hospital from which the patient was so
transferred, the best interest of the patient would be served by such
leave or transfer. For any patient who is involuntarily committed,
any transfer made under this section is subject to the placement
hearing requirements of section 229.14A. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 2727-a64; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 3527, 3528; C39, § 3527;
C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 227.11] Section History: Recent Form
96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113; 2001 Acts, ch 155, §44
Referred to in § 230.15, 331.381