2006 Minnesota Statutes

158.11 INMATES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS MAY BE ADMITTED.
The commissioner of human services may make application to the Board of Regents of the
University of Minnesota for the admission to the University of Minnesota Hospitals of any inmate
of any state institution under the commissioner of human services, or any person committed to or
applying for admission thereto, who is afflicted with any disease, malady, deformity, or ailment
which can probably be remedied, or which can be advantageously treated by proper medical or
surgical care at the University of Minnesota Hospitals. The application shall be accompanied by
the report of the physician of the institution or by a physician appointed by the commissioner of
human services in the same form as reports of other physicians for admission of patients to the
hospitals. The superintendent of the University of Minnesota Hospitals shall decide whether the
patient may be received by the hospitals; and, if received, when the patient shall be discharged or
returned to the institution from which the patient came. The commissioner of human services shall
pay the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota for the treatment of such patients at the
same rate charged for county patients and the expense of such treatment and of transporting the
patient to and from the University of Minnesota Hospitals shall be paid out of the appropriation
for operation of the institution from which the patient is sent. The commissioner of human
services may when necessary send an attendant with, or bring back, the patient and pay for
traveling expenses in like manner.
History: (4586) 1921 c 411 s 10; 1945 c 553; 1953 c 593 s 2; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986
c 444