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IA Code § 225C.6C (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.6C - Regional service system — regulatory requirements.

225C.6C Regional service system — regulatory requirements.   1. The departments of inspections and appeals, human services, and public health shall comply with the requirements of this section in their efforts to improve the regulatory requirements applied to the mental health and disability regional service system administration and service providers.   2. The three departments shall work together to establish a process to streamline accreditation, certification, and licensing standards applied to the regional service system administration and service providers.   3. The departments of human services and inspections and appeals shall jointly review the standards and inspection process applicable to residential care facilities.   4. The three departments shall do all of the following in developing regulatory requirements applicable to the regional service system administration and service providers:   a. Consider the costs to administrators and providers in the development of quality monitoring efforts.   b. Implement the use of uniform, streamlined, and statewide cost reporting standards and tools by the regional service system and the department of human services.   c. Make quality monitoring information, including services, quality, and location information, easily available and understandable to all citizens.   d. Establish standards that are clearly understood and are accompanied by interpretive guidelines to support understanding by those responsible for applying the standards.   e. Develop a partnership with providers in order to improve the quality of services and develop mechanisms for the provision of technical assistance.   f. Develop consistent data collection efforts based on statewide standards and make information available to all providers. The efforts under this paragraph shall be made with representatives of the Iowa state association of counties.   g. Evaluate existing provider qualification and monitoring efforts to identify duplication and gaps, and align the efforts with valued outcomes.   h. Streamline and enhance existing standards.   i. Consider allowing providers to seek accreditation from a national accrediting body in lieu of state accreditation or certification.  2012 Acts, ch 1120, §28
IA Code § 225C.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.7 - Mental health and developmental disabilities community services fund.

225C.7 Mental health and developmental disabilities community services fund. Repealed by 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §152.
IA Code § 225C.7A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.7A - Mental health and disability regional services fund.

225C.7A Mental health and disability regional services fund.   1. A mental health and disability regional services fund is created in the office of the treasurer of state under the authority of the department, which shall consist of the amounts appropriated to the fund by the general assembly for each fiscal year. Before completion of the department’s budget estimate as required by section 8.23, the director of human services, in consultation with the commission, shall determine and include in the estimate the amount, which in order to address the increase in the costs of providing services, should be appropriated to the fund for the succeeding fiscal year.   2. The department shall distribute the moneys appropriated from the fund to mental health and disability services regions for funding of disability services in accordance with performance-based contracts with the regions and in the manner provided in the appropriations. If the allocation methodology includes a population factor, the definition of “population” in section 331.388 shall be applied.  2012 Acts, ch 1120, §9, 20, 21  Referred to in §225C.4, 331.391, 331.398
IA Code § 225C.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.8 - Legal settlement dispute resolution.

225C.8 Legal settlement dispute resolution. Repealed by 2012 Acts, ch 1120, §129, 130. See §331.394.
IA Code § 225C.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.12 - Partial reimbursement to counties for local inpatient mental health care and treatment.

225C.12 Partial reimbursement to counties for local inpatient mental health care and treatment. Repealed by 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §152.
IA Code § 225C.13 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.13 - Authority to establish and lease facilities.

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, a county or group of counties, a mental health and disability services region, or a private nonprofit corporation organized under chapter 504. A lease executed under this section shall require that the lessee use the leased premises to deliver either disability services or other services normally delivered by the lessee.   2. The division administrator may work with the appropriate administrator of the department’s institutions to establish mental health and intellectual disability services for all institutions under the control of the director of human services and to establish an autism unit, following mutual planning and consultation with the medical director of the state psychiatric hospital, at an institution or a facility administered by the department to provide psychiatric and related services and other specific programs to meet the needs of autistic persons, and to furnish appropriate diagnostic evaluation services.  [S81, §225C.12; 81 Acts, ch 78, §14, 20]  94 Acts, ch 1170, §17; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §34; 2004 Acts, ch 1049, §191; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §393; 2006 Acts, ch 1115, §25; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §67; 2015 Acts, ch 69, §36
IA Code § 225C.14 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.14 - Preliminary diagnostic evaluation.

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, and that no suitable alternative method of providing the needed services in a less restrictive setting or in or nearer to the person’s home community is currently available. If provided for through the regional administrator, the evaluation may be performed by a community mental health center or by an alternative diagnostic facility. The policy established by this section shall be implemented in the manner and to the extent prescribed by sections 225C.15, 225C.16, and 225C.17.   2. As used in this section and sections 225C.15, 225C.16, and 225C.17, the term “medical emergency” means a situation in which a prospective patient is received at a state mental health institute in a condition which, in the opinion of the chief medical officer, or that officer’s physician designee, requires the immediate admission of the person notwithstanding the policy stated in subsection 1.  [C79, 81, §225B.4; S81, §225C.13; 81 Acts, ch 78, §15, 20]  94 Acts, ch 1170, §18; 96 Acts, ch 1183, §14; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, §33; 2015 Acts, ch 69, §37; 2016 Acts, ch 1073, §72  Referred to in §225C.15, 225C.16, 331.382
IA Code § 225C.15 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.15 - County implementation of evaluations.

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 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; 81 Acts, ch 78, §16, 20]  96 Acts, ch 1183, §15; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §50; 2015 Acts, ch 69, §38  Referred to in §225C.14, 331.382
IA Code § 225C.16 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.16 - Referrals for evaluation.

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 the regional administrator for the county has implemented the policy stated in section 225C.14, and shall advise that a preliminary diagnostic evaluation of the prospective patient be sought, if that has not already been done. This subsection does not apply when voluntary admission is sought in accordance with section 229.41 under circumstances which, in the opinion of the chief medical officer or that officer’s physician designee, constitute a medical emergency.   2. The clerk of the district court in that county shall refer a person applying for authorization for voluntary admission, or for authorization for voluntary admission of another person, in accordance with section 229.42, to the regional administrator for the person’s county of residence under section 225C.14 for the preliminary diagnostic evaluation unless the applicant furnishes a written statement from the appropriate entity which indicates that the evaluation has been performed and that the person’s admission to a state mental health institute is appropriate. This subsection does not apply when authorization for voluntary admission is sought under circumstances which, in the opinion of the chief medical officer or that officer’s physician designee, constitute a medical emergency.   3. Judges of the district court in that county or the judicial hospitalization referee appointed for that county shall so far as possible arrange for the entity designated through the regional administrator under section 225C.14 to perform a prehearing examination of a respondent required under section 229.8, subsection 3, paragraph “b”.   4. The chief medical officer of a state mental health institute shall promptly submit to the appropriate entity designated through the regional administrator under section 225C.14 a report of the voluntary admission of a patient under the medical emergency provisions of subsections 1 and 2. The report shall explain the nature of the emergency which necessitated the admission of the patient without a preliminary diagnostic evaluation by the designated entity.  [C79, 81, §225B.6; S81, §225C.15; 81 Acts, ch 78, §17, 20]  96 Acts, ch 1183, §16; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, §33; 2012 Acts, ch 1120, §96, 130; 2015 Acts, ch 69, §39; 2016 Acts, ch 1073, §73  Referred to in §225C.14, 331.382, 602.8102(39)
IA Code § 225C.17 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.17 - Alternative diagnostic facility.

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
IA Code § 225C.18 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.18 - Mental health and developmental disabilities regional planning councils.

225C.18 Mental health and developmental disabilities regional planning councils. Repealed by 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §152.
IA Code § 225C.19A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.19A - Crisis stabilization programs.

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 authorizing the operation of a crisis stabilization program, the department shall apply the relevant requirements for an emergency mental health crisis services provider and system under section 225C.19. A program authorized to operate under this section is not required to be licensed under chapter 135B, 135C, 135G, or 135H, or certified under chapter 231C. The commission shall adopt rules to implement this section. The department shall accept accreditation of a crisis stabilization program by a national accrediting organization in lieu of applying the rules adopted in accordance with this section to the program.  2014 Acts, ch 1044, §1; 2015 Acts, ch 75, §1; 2016 Acts, ch 1073, §74
IA Code § 225C.20 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.20 - Responsibilities of mental health and disability services regions for individual case management services.

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 of the region to be the provider at any time and the department shall agree to the contract so long as the contract meets the standards for case management adopted by the department. The regional administrator may subcontract for the provision of case management services so long as the subcontract meets the same standards. A regional administrator may change the provider of individual case management services at any time. If the current or proposed contract is with the department, the regional administrator shall provide written notification of a change at least ninety days before the date the change will take effect.  88 Acts, ch 1245, §7; 89 Acts, ch 283, §20; 93 Acts, ch 172, §31; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §53, 58; 2015 Acts, ch 69, §42
IA Code § 225C.21 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.21 - Supported community living services.

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 supported community living services. The administrator shall determine whether to grant, deny, or revoke approval for any supported community living service.   3. Approved supported community living services may receive funding from the state, federal and state social services block grant funds, and other appropriate funding sources, consistent with state legislation and federal regulations. The funding may be provided on a per diem, per hour, or grant basis, as appropriate.  85 Acts, ch 141, §1; 91 Acts, ch 38, §1  CS85, §225C.19  C89, §225C.21  94 Acts, ch 1170, §20; 96 Acts, ch 1129, §52; 98 Acts, ch 1181, §12; 99 Acts, ch 160, §6; 2010 Acts, ch 1031, §379; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §68  Referred to in §135C.6
IA Code § 225C.23 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.23 - Brain injury recognized as disability.

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 serve persons with brain injuries, shall recognize brain injury as a distinct disability and shall identify those persons with brain injuries among the persons served by the state agency.   2. For the purposes of this section, “brain injury” means the same as defined in section 135.22.  88 Acts, ch 1219, §2; 94 Acts, ch 1068, §7; 94 Acts, ch 1109, §3; 99 Acts, ch 141, §30; 2012 Acts, ch 1120, §67
IA Code § 225C.25 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.25 - Short title.

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
IA Code § 225C.26 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.26 - Scope.

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 1241, §64; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §70  Referred to in §135C.2, 225C.25, 225C.29
IA Code § 225C.27 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.27 - Purpose.

225C.27 Purpose. Repealed by 2010 Acts, ch 1031, §381.
IA Code § 225C.28A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.28A - Service quality standards.

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:   1. Provide comprehensive evaluation and diagnosis adapted to the cultural background, primary language, and ethnic origin of the person.   2. Provide an individual treatment, habilitation, and program plan.   3. Provide treatment, habilitation, and program services that are individualized, provided to produce results, flexible, and cost-effective, as appropriate.   4. Provide periodic review of the individual plan.   5. Provide for the least restrictive environment and age-appropriate services.   6. Provide appropriate training and employment opportunities so that the person’s ability to contribute to and participate in the community is maximized.   7. Provide an ongoing process to determine the degree of access to and the effectiveness of the services and other support in achieving the disability services outcomes and indicators identified by the commission pursuant to section 225C.6.  92 Acts, ch 1241, §66; 2006 Acts, ch 1115, §8; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §71  Referred to in §225C.25, 225C.29
IA Code § 225C.28B (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.28B - Rights of persons with an intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, brain injury, or chronic mental illness.

225C.28B Rights of persons with an intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, brain injury, or chronic mental illness.   All of the following rights shall apply to a person with an intellectual disability, a developmental disability, brain injury, or chronic mental illness:   1. Wage protection. A person with an intellectual disability, a developmental disability, brain injury, or chronic mental illness engaged in work programs shall be paid wages commensurate with the going rate for comparable work and productivity.   2. Insurance protection. Pursuant to section 507B.4, subsection 3, paragraph “g”, a person or designated group of persons shall not be denied insurance coverage by reason of an intellectual disability, a developmental disability, brain injury, or chronic mental illness.   3. Due process. A person with an intellectual disability, a developmental disability, brain injury, or chronic mental illness retains the right to citizenship in accordance with the laws of the state.   4. Participation in planning activities. If an individual treatment, habilitation, and program plan is developed for a person with an intellectual disability, a developmental disability, brain injury, or chronic mental illness, the person has the right to participate in the formulation of the plan.  92 Acts, ch 1241, §67; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §72; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §148  Referred to in §225C.25, 225C.29
IA Code § 225C.29 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 225C - MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES|Section 225C.29 - Compliance.

225C.29 Compliance.   Except for a violation of section 225C.28B, subsection 2, the sole remedy for violation of a rule adopted by the commission to implement sections 225C.25 through 225C.28B shall be by a proceeding for compliance initiated by request to the division pursuant to chapter 17A. Any decision of the division shall be in accordance with due process of law and is subject to appeal to the Iowa district court pursuant to sections 17A.19 and 17A.20 by any aggrieved party. Either the division or a party in interest may apply to the Iowa district court for an order to enforce the decision of the division. Any rules adopted by the commission to implement sections 225C.25 through 225C.28B do not create any right, entitlement, property or liberty right or interest, or private cause of action for damages against the state or a political subdivision of the state or for which the state or a political subdivision of the state would be responsible. Any violation of section 225C.28B, subsection 2, shall solely be subject to the enforcement by the commissioner of insurance and penalties granted by chapter 507B for a violation of section 507B.4, subsection 3, paragraph “g”.  85 Acts, ch 249, §6; 92 Acts, ch 1241, §68; 92 Acts, ch 1247, §17; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §149