225C.1 Findings and purpose. 1. The general assembly finds that services to persons with mental illness, an intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, or brain injury are provided in many parts of the state by highly autonomous community-based service providers working cooperatively with state and county officials. However, the general assembly recognizes that heavy reliance on property […]
225C.10 Repealed by 94 Acts, ch 1170, §54.
225C.11 Repealed by 94 Acts, ch 1170, §54.
225C.12 Partial reimbursement to counties for local inpatient mental health care and treatment. Repealed by 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §152.
225C.13 Authority to establish and lease facilities. 1. The administrator assigned, in accordance with section 218.1, to control the state mental health institutes and the state resource centers may enter into agreements under which a facility or portion of a facility administered by the administrator is leased to a department or division of state government, […]
225C.14 Preliminary diagnostic evaluation. 1. Except in cases of medical emergency, a person shall be admitted to a state mental health institute as an inpatient only after a preliminary diagnostic evaluation performed through the regional administrator for the person’s county of residence has confirmed that the admission is appropriate to the person’s mental health needs, […]
225C.15 County implementation of evaluations. 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 […]
225C.16 Referrals for evaluation. 1. The chief medical officer of a state mental health institute, or that officer’s physician designee, shall advise a person residing in that county who applies for voluntary admission, or a person applying for the voluntary admission of another person who resides in that county, in accordance with section 229.41, that […]
225C.17 Alternative diagnostic facility. If a county is not served by a community mental health center having the capacity to perform the required preliminary diagnostic evaluations, the regional administrator for the county shall arrange for the evaluations to be performed by an alternative diagnostic facility for the period until the county is served by a […]
225C.18 Mental health and developmental disabilities regional planning councils. Repealed by 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §152.
225C.19 Emergency mental health crisis services system. 1. For the purposes of this section: a. “Emergency mental health crisis services provider” means a provider accredited or approved by the department to provide emergency mental health crisis services. b. “Emergency mental health crisis services system” or “services system” means a coordinated array of crisis services for […]
225C.19A Crisis stabilization programs. The department shall accredit, certify, or apply standards of review to authorize the operation of crisis stabilization programs, including crisis stabilization programs operating in a psychiatric medical institution for children pursuant to chapter 135H that provide children with mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring mental health and substance abuse services. In […]
225C.2 Definitions. As used in this chapter: 1. “Administrator” means the administrator of the division. 2. “Child” or “children” means a person or persons under eighteen years of age. 3. “Children’s behavioral health services” means services for children with a serious emotional disturbance. 4. “Children’s behavioral health system” or “children’s system” means the behavioral health […]
225C.20 Responsibilities of mental health and disability services regions for individual case management services. Individual case management services funded under medical assistance shall be provided by the department except when a county or a consortium of counties contracts with the department to provide the services. A regional administrator may contract for one or more counties […]
225C.21 Supported community living services. 1. As used in this section, “supported community living services” means services provided in a noninstitutional setting to adult persons with mental illness, an intellectual disability, or developmental disabilities to meet the persons’ daily living needs. 2. The commission shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A establishing minimum standards for […]
225C.23 Brain injury recognized as disability. 1. The department of human services, the Iowa department of public health, the department of education and its divisions of special education and vocational rehabilitation services, the department of human rights and its division for persons with disabilities, the department for the blind, and all other state agencies which […]
225C.25 Short title. Sections 225C.25 through 225C.28B shall be known as “the bill of rights and service quality standards of persons with an intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, brain injury, or chronic mental illness”. 85 Acts, ch 249, §2; 92 Acts, ch 1241, §63; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §69 Referred to in §225C.29
225C.26 Scope. These rights and service quality standards apply to any person with an intellectual disability, a developmental disability, brain injury, or chronic mental illness who receives services which are funded in whole or in part by public funds or services which are permitted under Iowa law. 85 Acts, ch 249, §3; 92 Acts, ch […]
225C.27 Purpose. Repealed by 2010 Acts, ch 1031, §381.
225C.28A Service quality standards. As the state participates more fully in funding services and other support to persons with an intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, brain injury, or chronic mental illness, it is the intent of the general assembly that the state shall seek to attain the following quality standards in the provision of the services: […]
