Vermont § 9003 - Institutionalization of patients—Article III

§ 9003. Institutionalization of patients—Article III

• (a) Whenever a person physically present in any party state shall be in need of institutionalization
  by reason of mental illness or developmental disability, he or she shall be eligible
  for care and treatment in an institution in that state irrespective of his or her
  residence, settlement, or citizenship qualifications. (b) The provisions of paragraph (a) of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, any
  patient may be transferred to an institution in another state whenever there are factors
  based upon clinical determinations indicating that the care and treatment of said
  patient would be facilitated or improved thereby. Any such institutionalization may
  be for the entire period of care and treatment or for any portion or portions thereof.
  The factors referred to in this paragraph shall include the patient’s family, character
  of the illness and probable duration thereof, and such other factors as shall be considered
  appropriate. (c) No state shall be obliged to receive any patient pursuant to the provisions of paragraph
  (b) of this article unless the sending state has given advance notice of its intention
  to send the patient; furnished all available medical and other pertinent records concerning
  the patient; given the qualified medical or other appropriate clinical authorities
  of the receiving state an opportunity to examine the patient if said authorities so
  wish; and unless the receiving state shall agree to accept the patient. (d) In the event that the laws of the receiving state establish a system of priorities
  for the admission of patients, an interstate patient under this compact shall receive
  the same priority as a local patient and shall be taken in the same order and at the
  same time that he or she would be taken if he or she were a local patient. (e) Pursuant to this compact, the determination as to the suitable place of institutionalization
  for a patient may be reviewed at any time and such further transfer of the patient
  may be made as seems likely to be in the best interest of the patient. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1977, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 48.)