Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 222 · 35 active provisions
1. This chapter addresses the public and private services available in this state to meet the needs of persons with an intellectual disability. 2. The Glenwood state resource center and the Woodward state resource center are established and shall be maintained as the state’s regional resource centers for the purpose of…
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Administrative services organization” means the same as defined in section 225A.1. 2. “Auditor” means the county auditor or the auditor’s designee. 3. “Department” means the department of health and human services. 4. “Director” means the director of…
The director shall appoint a qualified superintendent for each of the resource centers who shall receive such salary as the director shall determine.
The superintendents shall: 1. Perform all duties required by law and by the director not inconsistent with law. 2. Oversee and insure individual treatment and professional care of each patient in the resource centers. 3. Maintain a full and complete record of the condition of each patient in the resource centers. 4. Ha…
A person shall not be eligible for admission to a resource center until a preadmission diagnostic evaluation has been made by a resource center which confirms or establishes the need for admission.
The department may transfer patients from one state resource center to the other and may at any time transfer patients from the resource centers to the hospitals for persons with mental illness. The department may also transfer patients from a hospital for persons with mental illness to a resource center if consent is…
Persons admitted to the resource centers shall have all reasonable opportunity and facility for communication with their friends. Such persons shall be permitted to write and send letters, provided the letters contain nothing of an offensive character. Letters written by any patient to the director or to any state or c…
If any person with an intellectual disability shall depart without proper authorization from a resource center, it shall be the duty of the superintendent and the superintendent’s assistants and all peace officers of any county in which such patient may be found to take and detain the patient without a warrant or order…
When any person with an intellectual disability departs without proper authority from a facility in another state and is found in this state, any peace officer in any county in which such patient is found may take and detain the patient without warrant or order and shall report such detention to the department. The dep…
All actual and necessary expenses incurred in the taking into protective custody, restraint, and transportation of such patients to the resource centers shall be paid on itemized vouchers, sworn to by the claimants, and approved by the superintendent and the director from any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise…
1. Upon the death of a patient of a resource center, a preliminary investigation of the death shall be conducted as required by section 218.64 by the county medical examiner as provided in section 331.802. Such a preliminary investigation shall also be conducted in the event of a sudden or mysterious death of a patient…
1. If an adult person is believed to be a person with an intellectual disability, the adult person or the adult person’s guardian may apply to the department and the superintendent of any state resource center for the voluntary admission of the adult person either as an inpatient or an outpatient of the resource center…
1. If a minor is believed to be a person with an intellectual disability, the minor’s parent, guardian, or custodian may apply to the department for admission of the minor as a voluntary patient in a state resource center. If the resource center does not have appropriate services for the minor’s treatment, the departme…
If the institution is unable to receive a patient, the superintendent shall notify anadministrative services organization. Until such time as the patient is able to be received by the institution, or when application has been made for admission to a public or private facility as provided in section 222.13 and the appli…
This section applies to any person who was voluntarily admitted to a state resource center or other facility in accordance with the provisions of section 222.13 or 222.13A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, if the person or the person’s parent, guardian, or custodian submits a written request for the person…
1. The department shall make all final determinations concerning whether a person may be admitted to a state resource center. 2. If a patient is admitted to a state resource center pursuant to section 222.13 or 222.13A, and the patient wishes to be placed outside of the state resource center, the discharge of the patie…
If a guardianship is proposed for a person with an intellectual disability, guardianship proceedings shall be initiated and conducted as provided in chapter 232D or 633.
The department shall implement services and adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A in a manner that ensures that the state is the payor of last resort, and that the department shall not make any payments for services that have been provided until the department has determined that the services provided are not payable by…
When the proceedings are instituted in a county in which the person who is alleged to have an intellectual disability was found but which is not the county of residence of the person, and the costs are not taxed to the petitioner, the person’s county of residence or the state, as determined in accordance with section 2…
When in proceedings against an alleged delinquent or dependent child, the court is satisfied from any evidence that such child has an intellectual disability, the court may order a continuance of such proceeding, and may direct an officer of the court or some other proper person to file a petition against such child pe…
If on the conviction in the district court of any person for any crime or for any violation of any municipal ordinance, or if on the determination in the court that a child is dependent, neglected, or delinquent and it appears from any evidence presented to the court before sentence, that such person has an intellectua…
Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, any amount attributable to any assessment pursuant to section 249A.21 that would otherwise be the liability of any county shall be paid by the state. The department may transfer funds from the appropriation for medical assistance to pay any amount attributa…
1. The superintendent of each resource center shall compute by February 1 the average daily patient charge and outpatient treatment charges for which each county will be billed for services provided to patients chargeable to the county during the fiscal year beginning the following July 1. The department shall certify…
The cost of support of patients placed on convalescent leave or removed as a habilitation measure from a resource center, except when living in the home of a person legally bound for the support of the patient, shall be paid by the state.
1. The father and mother of any patient admitted to a resource center, as either an inpatient or an outpatient, and any person, firm, or corporation bound by contract made for support of the patient, are liable for the support of the patient. The patient and those legally bound for the support of the patient shall be l…