Iowa Code 227.1 – Definitions — supervision
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1. For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
a. “County care facility” means a county care facility operated under chapter 347B.
b. “Department” means the department of health and human services.
c. “Director” means the director of health and human services.
d. “Facility” includes a county care facility and a private or county facility, including a hospital, for persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability.
e. “Mental health and disability services region” means a mental health and disability services region formed in accordance with section 225C.56.
f. “Patient” means a person receiving care in a facility or a state mental health institute.
g. “Regional administrator” means the same as defined in section 225C.55.
h. “Resident” means a person cared for in a county care facility.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 227.1
- Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
- Intellectual disability: means a diagnosis of intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder, global developmental delay, or unspecified intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder which diagnosis shall be made only when the onset of the person's condition was during the developmental period and based on an assessment of the person's intellectual functioning and level of adaptive skills. See Iowa Code 4.1
- person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
- 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
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. The regulatory requirements for county and private facilities where persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability are admitted, committed, or placed shall be administered by the department.