Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 225 · 27 active provisions
1. The state psychiatric hospital is established. The hospital shall be especially designed, kept, and administered for the care, observation, and treatment of those persons who are afflicted with abnormal mental conditions. 2. For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: a. “Administrative…
It shall be known as the state psychiatric hospital, and shall be located at Iowa City, and integrated with the university of Iowa college of medicine and university hospital of the state university of Iowa.
The state board of regents shall have full power to manage, control, and govern the said hospital the same as other institutions already under its control.
The department shall make all final determinations concerning whether a person may be admitted to the state psychiatric hospital.
The medical director of the state psychiatric hospital shall seek to bring about systematic cooperation between the state mental health institutes and the state psychiatric hospital.
Patients admitted to the said state psychiatric hospital shall be divided into four classes: 1. Voluntary private patients. 2. Committed private patients. 3. Voluntary public patients. 4. Committed public patients.
All voluntary private patients and committed private patients shall be kept and maintained without expense to the state, and the voluntary public patients and committed public patients shall be kept and maintained by the state.
Voluntary private patients may be admitted in accordance with the regulations to be established by the state board of regents, and their care, nursing, observation, treatment, medicine, and maintenance shall be without expense to the state. However, the charge for such care, nursing, observation, treatment, medicine, a…
When a court finds upon completion of a hearing held pursuant to section 229.12 that the contention that a respondent is seriously mentally impaired has been sustained by clear and convincing evidence, and the application filed under section 229.6 also contends or the court otherwise concludes that it would be appropri…
A physician or a physician assistant who meets the qualifications set forth in the definition of a mental health professional in section 228.1 shall submit a detailed history of the case to an administrative services organization as will be likely to aid in the observation, treatment, and hospital care of the person.
Administrative services organizations shall be responsible for investigating the financial condition of a person and of those legally responsible for the person’s support.
If it is determined through the financial condition investigation made pursuant to section 225.13 that a person is a committed or voluntary private patient, the person or those legally responsible for the person’s support are liable for expenses as provided in section 225.22. The costs of a committed or voluntary publi…
When a respondent arrives at the state psychiatric hospital, the admitting physician, or a physician assistant who meets the qualifications set forth in the definition of a mental health professional in section 228.1, shall examine the respondent and determine whether or not, in the physician’s or physician assistant’s…
1. If the department finds from the physician’s information or from the information of a physician assistant who meets the qualifications set forth in the definition of a mental health professional in section 228.1 which was filed under the provisions of section 225.12 that it would be appropriate for the person to be…
1. If the judge of the district court finds pursuant to section 225.11 that the respondent is an appropriate subject for placement at the state psychiatric hospital, and that the respondent, or those legally responsible for the respondent, are able to pay the expenses associated with the placement, the judge shall ente…
An administrative services organization may appoint an attendant to accompany the committed public patient or the voluntary public patient or the committed private patient from the place where the patient may be to the state psychiatric hospital, or to accompany the patient from the hospital to a place as may be design…
Every committed private patient, if the patient has an estate sufficient for that purpose, or if those legally responsible for the patient’s support are financially able, shall be liable to the state for all expenses paid by the state on behalf of such patient. All bills for the care, nursing, observation, treatment, m…
If the bills for a committed or voluntary private patient are paid by the state, the state psychiatric hospital shall file a certified copy of the claim for the bills with the department of administrative services. The department shall proceed to collect the claim in the name of the state psychiatric hospital.
Unless a committed private patient or those legally responsible for the patient’s support offer to settle the amount of the claims, the department shall collect, by action if necessary, the amount of all claims for per diem and expenses that have been approved by an administrative services organization and paid by the…
If a patient is committed to the state psychiatric hospital as a private patient and after admission it is determined through an investigation made pursuant to section 225.13 that the person is a public patient, the expense of keeping and maintaining the patient from the date of the filing of the information upon which…
All moneys collected from private patients shall be used for the support of the state psychiatric hospital.
The state psychiatric hospital may, at any time, discharge any patient as recovered, as improved, or as not likely to be benefited by further treatment. If the patient being so discharged was involuntarily hospitalized, the hospital shall notify the committing judge or court of the discharge as required by section 229.…
The state shall pay to the state psychiatric hospital, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, all expenses for the administration of the hospital, and for the care, treatment, and maintenance of committed and voluntary public patients in the state psychiatric hospital, including clothing an…
The medical faculty of the university of Iowa college of medicine shall prepare blanks containing such questions and requiring such information as may be necessary and proper to be obtained by the physician or mental health professional who examines a person or respondent whose referral to the state psychiatric hospita…
One of the duplicate reports shall be sent to the state psychiatric hospital with the patient, together with a certified copy of the order of the court.