2006 Minnesota Statutes

158.10 DISCHARGE FROM HOSPITALS.
When, in the opinion of the superintendent of the University of Minnesota Hospitals, any
patient should be discharged therefrom as cured, or as no longer needing treatment, or for the
reason that treatment cannot benefit the case, the superintendent shall discharge the patient.
If the patient is a county patient and is unable to return home alone, the superintendent shall
appoint some suitable person to accompany the patient home from the hospital. Such person
shall receive actual and necessary expenses; and, if not a salaried officer of the state, or any
political subdivision thereof, shall receive in addition $3 per day for the actual time necessarily
consumed. The traveling expenses of all county patients and the per diem and expenses of the
person appointed to accompany the patient shall be part of the legitimate expenses of caring for
such patients in the University of Minnesota Hospitals and as such included by the superintendent
in the monthly bill to the commissioner of finance, provided for in section 158.07.
History: (4585) 1921 c 411 s 9; 1945 c 553; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1986 c 444