227.10 - TRANSFERS FROM COUNTY OR PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS.

        227.10  TRANSFERS FROM COUNTY OR PRIVATE
      INSTITUTIONS.
         Patients who have been admitted at public expense to any
      institution to which this chapter is applicable may be involuntarily
      transferred to the proper state hospital for persons with mental
      illness in the manner prescribed by sections 229.6 to 229.13.  The
      application required by section 229.6 may be filed by the
      administrator of the division or the administrator's designee, or by
      the administrator of the institution where the patient is then being
      maintained or treated.  If the patient was admitted to that
      institution involuntarily, the administrator of the division may
      arrange and complete the transfer, and shall report it as required of
      a chief medical officer under section 229.15, subsection 5.  The
      transfer shall be made at county expense, and the expense recovered,
      as provided in section 227.7.  However, transfer under this section
      of a patient whose expenses are payable in whole or in part by a
      county is subject to an authorization for the transfer through the
      central point of coordination process.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [S13, § 2727-a64; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3526; C46, 50, 54,
      58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 227.10] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113; 96 Acts, ch 1183, § 17; 2004 Acts, ch
      1090, §33