Iowa Code (Last Updated: December 05, 2016) |
Title VI. HUMAN SERVICES |
Chapter 225C. MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES |
Section 225C.15. County implementation of evaluations.
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The regional administrator for a county shall require that the policy stated in section 225C.14 be followed with respect to admission of persons from that county to a state mental health institute. A community mental health center which is supported, directly or in affiliation with other counties, by that county may perform the preliminary diagnostic evaluations for that county, unless the performance of the evaluations is not covered by the agreement entered into by the regional administrator and the center, and the center’s director certifies to the regional administrator that the center does not have the capacity to perform the evaluations, in which case the regional administrator shall proceed under section 225C.17.
[C79, 81, §225B.5; S81, §225C.14;
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