904.201 Iowa medical and classification center. 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 psychosocialdisorders and requiring diagnostic services or treatment in a security setting, as a securityunit for persons requiring confinement in a security setting, and as a classification unitfor the reception, orientation, and classification of inmates before placement in themost appropriate correctional institutions according to necessary security and custodyarrangements 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 acomplete 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. ric 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 standtrial. (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. The classification unit shall admit inmates for purposes of orientation and classification 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 inmateis determined to be mentally ill, the inmate shall not be subjected involuntarily n at the center in order to provide the inmates with suitable security or medical treatment, or both. Unless an inmateis determined to be mentally ill, the inmate shall not be subjected involuntarily to psychiatrictreatment. 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, orcourt requesting admission to the medical director of the department or the medical director’sdesignee. An application may be denied by the medical director of the department or themedical director’s designee, with the approval of the director, if the admission will result inan overcrowded condition or if adequate staff or facilities are not available. The decisionregarding admission and discharge of persons shall be made by the medical director of thedepartment 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 specialtreatment in the security setting, the person may be returned to the m any other state institution or admitted by request or order of any agency, governmental body, or court no longer requires specialtreatment in the security setting, the person may be returned to the source from whichreceived. The state institution, agency, governmental body, or court that referred the personfor hospitalization shall retain constructive jurisdiction over the person. Persons withoutlegal encumbrances may be discharged directly from the center upon concurrence of themedical director of the department or the medical director’s designee and the head of thereferring institution, agency, governmental body, or court. The support, commitment, andrelease statutes applicable to a person at the state institution from which transferred shallremain 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, except thatcharges for the care and treatment of any person transferred to the forensic psychiatrichospital from an adult correctional institution or from a state training school shall be paidentirely from state funds. for the care and treatment of any person transferred to the forensic psychiatrichospital from an adult correctional institution or from a state training school shall be paidentirely from state funds. Charges for all other persons at the forensic psychiatric hospitalshall be billed to the respective counties at the same ratio as for patients at state mentalhealth institutes under section 230.20. 85 Acts, ch 21, §29, 54 Sat Dec 23 12:37:42 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 904.201 (25, 2) §904.201, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 2 CS85, §246.201C93, §904.20196 Acts, ch 1129, §113; 2004 Acts, ch 1084, §15; 2004 Acts, ch 1106, §2; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §261; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §1330 Subsection 3, paragraph a, subparagraph (1) amended Sat Dec 23 12:37:42 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 904.201 (25, 2)
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