Iowa Code
Iowa Code § 226.19 (2026)
Discharge — certificate
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1. Every patient shall be discharged in accordance with the procedure prescribed in section 229.3 or section 229.16, whichever is applicable, immediately on regaining the patient’s good mental health.
2. If a patient’s care is the financial responsibility of the state or a county, as part of the patient’s discharge planning the state mental health institute shall provide assistance to the patient in obtaining eligibility for the federal state supplemental security income program. [R60, §1485; C73, §1424; C97, §2288; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3501; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §226.19] 2005 Acts, ch 175, §97; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §68 \n 226.20 and 226.21 Reserved. \n
Notes of Decisions
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case, 1977–1977 · leading case: Davis v. Jenness, 253 N.W.2d 610 (Iowa 1977).
Davis v. Jenness, 253 N.W.2d 610 (Iowa 1977). “The department of public safety now knows that discharge of a mental patient as having regained "good mental health" under Code § 226.19 may not be wholly accurate, because such discharges may in fact be predicated only on a finding by the hospital that custodial treatment is no…”
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