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 community mental health center with the capacity to provide that service. An alternative diagnostic facility may be the outpatient service of a state mental health institute or any other mental health facility or service able to furnish the requisite professional skills to properly perform a preliminary diagnostic evaluation of a person whose admission to a state mental health institute is being sought or considered on either a voluntary or an involuntary basis.
[C79, 81, §225B.7; S81, §225C.16; 81 Acts, ch 78, §18, 20]
2015 Acts, ch 69, §40
Referred to in §225C.14, 225C.15, 331.382
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES
Section 225C.1 - Findings and purpose.
Section 225C.3 - Division of mental health and disability services — state mental health authority.
Section 225C.4 - Administrator’s duties.
Section 225C.5 - Mental health and disability services commission.
Section 225C.6 - Duties of commission.
Section 225C.6A - Disability services system central data repository.
Section 225C.6C - Regional service system — regulatory requirements.
Section 225C.7 - Mental health and developmental disabilities community services fund.
Section 225C.8 - Legal settlement dispute resolution.
Section 225C.13 - Authority to establish and lease facilities.
Section 225C.14 - Preliminary diagnostic evaluation.
Section 225C.15 - County implementation of evaluations.
Section 225C.16 - Referrals for evaluation.
Section 225C.17 - Alternative diagnostic facility.
Section 225C.18 - Mental health and developmental disabilities regional planning councils.
Section 225C.19 - Emergency mental health crisis services system.
Section 225C.19A - Crisis stabilization programs.
Section 225C.21 - Supported community living services.
Section 225C.23 - Brain injury recognized as disability.
Section 225C.25 - Short title.
Section 225C.28A - Service quality standards.
Section 225C.32 - Plan appeals process.
Section 225C.35 - Definitions.
Section 225C.36 - Family support subsidy program.
Section 225C.37 - Program specifications rules.
Section 225C.38 - Payment — amount — reports.
Section 225C.39 - Subsidy payments not alienable.
Section 225C.40 - Termination or denial of subsidy — hearing.
Section 225C.41 - Appropriations.
Section 225C.42 - Annual evaluation of program.
Section 225C.45 - Public housing unit.
Section 225C.46 - Personal assistance services program.
Section 225C.47 - Comprehensive family support program.
Section 225C.48 - Comprehensive family support council.
Section 225C.49 - Departmental duties concerning services to individuals with a disability.
Section 225C.51 - Children’s behavioral health system state board.
Section 225C.52 - Children’s behavioral health system state board — duties.
Section 225C.53 - Role of department and division — transition to adult system.
Section 225C.54 - Mental health services system for children and youth — initial implementation.