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Iowa Code Title VI. Human Services [Chs. 216-255A] § 222.7. Transfers

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

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The department may transfer patients from one state resource center to the other and may at any time transfer patients from the resource centers to the hospitals for persons with mental illness, or transfer patients in the resource centers to a special unit or vice versa. 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.

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