Iowa Code 218.30 – Investigation of other facilities
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 218.30
- persons with mental illness: include persons with psychosis, persons who are severely depressed, and persons with any type of mental disease or mental disorder, except that mental illness does not refer to intellectual disability, or to insanity, diminished responsibility, or mental incompetency as defined and used in the Iowa criminal code or in the rules of criminal procedure, Iowa court rules. See Iowa Code 4.1
The director may investigate or cause the investigation of charges of abuse, neglect, or mismanagement on the part of an officer or employee of a private facility which is subject to the director’s supervision or control. The director shall also investigate or cause the investigation of charges concerning county care facilities in which persons with mental illness are served.