222.13 Voluntary admissions.
1. If an adult person is believed to be a person with an intellectual disability, the adult person or the adult person’s guardian may apply to the department and the superintendent of any state resource center for the voluntary admission of the adult person either as an inpatient or an outpatient of the resource center. If the expenses of the person’s admission or placement are payable in whole or in part by the person’s county of residence, application for the admission shall be made through the regional administrator. An application for admission to a special unit of any adult person believed to be in need of any of the services provided by the special unit under section 222.88 may be made in the same manner. The superintendent shall accept the application if a preadmission diagnostic evaluation confirms or establishes the need for admission, except that an application shall not be accepted if the institution does not have adequate facilities available or if the acceptance will result in an overcrowded condition.
2. If the resource center does not have an appropriate program for the treatment of an adult or minor person with an intellectual disability applying under this section or section 222.13A, the regional administrator for the person’s county of residence or the department, as applicable, shall arrange for the placement of the person in any public or private facility within or without the state, approved by the director of human services, which offers appropriate services for the person. If the expenses of the placement are payable in whole or in part by a county, the placement shall be made by the regional administrator for the county.
3. If the expenses of an admission of an adult to a resource center or a special unit, or of the placement of the person in a public or private facility are payable in whole or in part by a mental health and disability services region, the regional administrator shall make a full investigation into the financial circumstances of the person and those liable for the person’s support under section 222.78 to determine whether or not any of them are able to pay the expenses arising out of the admission of the person to a resource center, special unit, or public or private facility. If the regional administrator finds that the person or those legally responsible for the person are presently unable to pay the expenses, the regional administrator shall pay the expenses. The regional administrator may review such a finding at any subsequent time while the person remains at the resource center, or is otherwise receiving care or treatment for which this chapter obligates the region to pay. If the regional administrator finds upon review that the person or those legally responsible for the person are presently able to pay the expenses, the finding shall apply only to the charges incurred during the period beginning on the date of the review and continuing thereafter, unless and until the regional administrator again changes such a finding. If the regional administrator finds that the person or those legally responsible for the person are able to pay the expenses, the regional administrator shall collect the charges to the extent required by section 222.78, and the regional administrator shall be responsible for the payment of the remaining charges.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3464, 3477.2; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §222.54, 223.13; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §222.13]
83 Acts, ch 96, §157, 159; 95 Acts, ch 82, §7; 96 Acts, ch 1183, §2; 97 Acts, ch 169, §2; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §51; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, §33; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §28; 2012 Acts, ch 1120, §70, 130; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §45; 2015 Acts, ch 69, §7
Referred to in §222.14, 222.15, 222.59, 331.381, 331.502
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 222 - PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
Section 222.3 - Superintendents.
Section 222.5 - Preadmission diagnostic evaluation.
Section 222.6 - State districts.
Section 222.8 - Communications by patients.
Section 222.9 - Unauthorized departures.
Section 222.10 - Duty of peace officer.
Section 222.12 - Deaths investigated.
Section 222.13 - Voluntary admissions.
Section 222.13A - Voluntary admissions — minors.
Section 222.14 - Care by region pending admission.
Section 222.15 - Discharge of patients admitted voluntarily.
Section 222.16 - Petition for adjudication of intellectual disability.
Section 222.16A - Judicial proceedings.
Section 222.17 - Allegations verified.
Section 222.18 - County attorney to appear.
Section 222.19 - Party respondents.
Section 222.20 - Notice served.
Section 222.21 - Order requiring attendance.
Section 222.22 - Time of appearance.
Section 222.23 - Persons to be present.
Section 222.25 - Custody pending hearing.
Section 222.26 - Hearing in equity.
Section 222.27 - Hearing in public.
Section 222.28 - Commission to examine.
Section 222.30 - Ruling on report.
Section 222.31 - Commitment — liability for charges.
Section 222.32 - Committed person under jurisdiction of court.
Section 222.34 - Guardianship proceedings.
Section 222.36 - Custody pending admission.
Section 222.37 - Order to deliver committed person.
Section 222.38 - Delivery of person to institution, resource center, or special unit.
Section 222.39 - Receipt acknowledged by superintendent.
Section 222.40 - Filing order with clerk.
Section 222.41 - Exclusive method of discharge.
Section 222.42 - Petition for discharge.
Section 222.44 - Notice to superintendent.
Section 222.45 - Power of court.
Section 222.46 - No bar to future petitions.
Section 222.47 - Penalty for false petition of commitment.
Section 222.48 - Fees for witnesses.
Section 222.50 - County of residence or state to pay.
Section 222.51 - Costs collected.
Section 222.52 - Proceedings against delinquent — hearing on intellectual disability.
Section 222.53 - Conviction — suspension.
Section 222.54 - Procedure after hearing.
Section 222.55 - Procedure regarding a person with mental illness.
Section 222.56 - Transfer to institution for persons with an intellectual disability.
Section 222.57 - Court records.
Section 222.58 - Administrator to keep record.
Section 222.59 - Alternative to state resource center placement.
Section 222.60 - Costs paid by county or state — diagnosis and evaluation.
Section 222.60A - Cost of assessment.
Section 222.61 - Residency determined.
Section 222.62 - Residency in another county.
Section 222.63 - Finding of residency — objection.
Section 222.64 - Foreign state or country or unknown residency.
Section 222.65 - Investigation.
Section 222.66 - Transfers — no residency in state or residency unknown — expenses.
Section 222.67 - Charge on finding of residency.
Section 222.68 - Costs paid in first instance.
Section 222.69 - Payment by state.
Section 222.70 - Residency disputes.
Section 222.73 - Billing of patient charges — computation of actual costs — cost settlement.
Section 222.74 - Duplicate to county.
Section 222.75 - Delinquent payments — penalty.
Section 222.77 - Patients on leave.
Section 222.78 - Parents and others liable for support.
Section 222.79 - Certification statement presumed correct.
Section 222.80 - Liability to county or state.
Section 222.81 - Claim against estate.
Section 222.82 - Collection of liabilities and claims.
Section 222.83 - Nonresident patients.
Section 222.84 - Patients’ personal deposit fund.
Section 222.85 - Deposit of moneys — exception to guardians.
Section 222.86 - Payment for care from fund.
Section 222.87 - Deposit in bank.
Section 222.88 - Special intellectual disability unit.
Section 222.89 - Location — staff and personnel.
Section 222.90 - Superintendent.
Section 222.91 - Direct referral to special unit.
Section 222.92 - Net general fund appropriation — state resource centers.