1.The Iowa medical and classification center at Oakdale shall be utilized as a forensic
psychiatric hospital for persons displaying evidence of mental illness or psychosocial
disorders and requiring diagnostic services or treatment in a security setting, as a security
unit for persons requiring confinement in a security setting, and as a classification unit
for the reception, orientation, and classification of inmates before placement in the
most appropriate correctional institutions according to necessary security and custody
arrangements and the assessed service needs of the inmates.
2.The medical director of the department or the medical director’s designee shall secure
the professional care and treatment of each person confined at the center and maintain a
complete record on the cond
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1. The Iowa medical and classification center at Oakdale shall be utilized as a forensic
psychiatric hospital for persons displaying evidence of mental illness or psychosocial
disorders and requiring diagnostic services or treatment in a security setting, as a security
unit for persons requiring confinement in a security setting, and as a classification unit
for the reception, orientation, and classification of inmates before placement in the
most appropriate correctional institutions according to necessary security and custody
arrangements and the assessed service needs of the inmates.
2. The medical director of the department or the medical director’s designee shall secure
the professional care and treatment of each person confined at the center and maintain a
complete record on the condition of each person confined at the center.
3. a. The forensic psychiatric hospital may admit the following persons:
(1) Residents transferred from an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of
health and human services or the Iowa department of corrections.
(2) Persons committed by the courts as mentally incompetent to stand trial pursuant to
section 812.6.
(3) Persons referred by the courts for psychosocial diagnosis and recommendations as
part of the pretrial or presentence procedure or determination of mental competency to stand
trial.
(4) Prisoners transferred from county and city jails for diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment
for mental illness.
b. Other persons may be admitted providing the admissions are not inconsistent with law
and are within the capacity of the facilities and staff to accommodate the persons.
4. Theclassificationunitshalladmitinmatesforpurposesoforientationandclassification
before placement in the most appropriate correctional institutions.
5. The director may house inmates from any correctional institution at the center in order
to provide the inmates with suitable security or medical treatment, or both. Unless an inmate
is determined to be mentally ill, the inmate shall not be subjected involuntarily to psychiatric
treatment.
6. All admissions to the forensic psychiatric hospital shall be by written application only.
Application shall be made by the head of the state institution, agency, governmental body, or
courtrequestingadmissiontothemedicaldirectorofthedepartmentorthemedicaldirector’s
designee. An application may be denied by the medical director of the department or the
medical director’s designee, with the approval of the director, if the admission will result in
an overcrowded condition or if adequate staff or facilities are not available. The decision
regarding admission and discharge of persons shall be made by the medical director of the
department or the medical director’s designee, subject to approval of the director.
7. When a person transferred to the center from any other state institution or admitted
by request or order of any agency, governmental body, or court no longer requires special
treatment in the security setting, the person may be returned to the source from which
received. The state institution, agency, governmental body, or court that referred the person
for hospitalization shall retain constructive jurisdiction over the person. Persons without
legal encumbrances may be discharged directly from the center upon concurrence of the
medical director of the department or the medical director’s designee and the head of the
referring institution, agency, governmental body, or court. The support, commitment, and
release statutes applicable to a person at the state institution from which transferred shall
remain applicable while the person is at the center.
8. Chapter 230 governs the determination of costs and charges for the care and treatment
of persons with mental illness admitted to the forensic psychiatric hospital.