Indiana § 16-22-3-23 - Related facilities and services
Full text of Indiana Indiana Code § 16-22-3-23 — Related facilities and services, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 16-22-3-23. Related facilities and services
Sec. 23. The governing board may do the following:
(1) Permit the hospital to provide services for the mentally disordered under IC 12-29 and may limit the services to short term care.
(2) Contract for or establish and maintain a training school for nurses and for paramedical personnel, with a curriculum that conforms to the requirements of the Indiana state board of nursing or other appropriate board.
(3) Acquire suitable facilities for housing graduate and student nurses in training or employed by the hospital.
(4) Provide suitable facilities for the temporary detention and examination of persons whose sanity is being officially inquired into preparatory to admission to hospitals for the insane.
However, a person known to be dangerously insane or who has been adjudged insane shall not be confined in or about the hospital unless specific facilities necessary for the temporary confinement of these patients, separate and apart from the other patients, have been provided in the hospital.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-19.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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