§ 222.7 — Transfers

Iowa § 222.7

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VI: HUMAN SERVICES
• Ch. 222: PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

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The department may transfer patients from one state resource center to the other and may
atanytimetransferpatientsfromtheresourcecenterstothehospitalsforpersonswithmental
illness. The department may also transfer patients from a hospital for persons with mental
illness to a resource center if consent is given or obtained as follows:
1. In the case of a patient who entered the hospital for persons with mental illness
voluntarily, consent is given in advance by the patient or, if the patient is a minor or is
incompetent, the person responsible for the patient.
2. In the case of a patient hospitalized pursuant to sections 229.6 through 229.15, the
consent of the court which hospitalized the patient is obtained in advance, rather than
afterward as otherwise permitted by section 229.15, subsection 4.

Legislative History

[SS15, §2727-a96; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3456, 3472, 3477; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §222.46, 223.8, 223.11; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §222.7]