Iowa Code 135G.12 – Information confidential
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1. The department‘s final findings regarding licensure shall be made available to the public in a readily available form and place. Other information relating to the subacute care facility is confidential and shall not be made available to the public except in proceedings involving licensure, a civil suit involving a resident, or an administrative action involving a resident.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 135G.12
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 154A.1
- Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 135G.1
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Person: means a natural person. See Iowa Code 154A.1
- Resident: means a person who is eighteen years of age or older and has been determined by a mental health professional to need subacute mental health services. See Iowa Code 135G.1
- subacute care facility: means an institution, place, building, or agency with restricted means of egress providing subacute mental health services for a period exceeding twenty-four consecutive hours to persons in need of the services. See Iowa Code 135G.1
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
2. The name of a person who files a complaint with the department shall remain confidential and is not subject to discovery, subpoena, or any other means of legal compulsion for release to a person other than an employee of the department or an agent involved in the investigation of the complaint.
3. Information regarding a resident who has received or is receiving care shall not be disclosed directly or indirectly except as authorized under section 217.30.