§ 16-22-3-23 — Related facilities and services

The governing board may do the following:
(1) Permit the hospital to provide services for the mentally
disordered under IC 12-29 and may limit the services to short
term care.
(2) Contract for or establish and maintain a training school for
nurses and for paramedical personnel, with a curriculum that
conforms to the requirements of the Indiana state board of nursing
or other appropriate board.
(3) Acquire suitable facilities for housing graduate and student
nurses in training or employed by the hospital.
(4) Provide suitable facilities for the temporary detention and
examination of persons whose sanity is being officially inquired
into preparatory to admission to hospitals for the insane.
However, a person known to be dangerously insane or who has been
adjudged insane shall not be confined in or about the hospital unless
specific facilities necessary for the temporary confinement of these
patients, separate and apart from the other patients, have been provided
in the hospital.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-19.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.