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256.0121 SOUTHERN CITIES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC.
    Subdivision 1. Service provision. The commissioner of human services shall offer
medically necessary psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients in the
Faribault service area through the Southern Cities Community Health Clinic. For purposes of
this requirement, the Faribault service area is expanded to also include geographic areas of the
state within 100 miles of Faribault.
    Subd. 2. Consultation required. The commissioner of human services shall consult
with providers of psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients, family
members of developmentally disabled clients, the chairs of the house and senate committees
with jurisdiction over health and human services fiscal issues, and the exclusive representatives
when considering policy changes related to:
(1) the future of the Southern Cities Community Health Clinic;
(2) the services currently provided by that clinic to developmentally disabled clients in the
Faribault regional center catchment area; and
(3) changes in the model for providing those services.
    Subd. 3. Guarantee of service availability; legislative notice. (a) The Department of
Human Services shall guarantee the provision of medically necessary psychiatric and dental
services to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault service area through the Southern
Cities Community Health Clinic until or unless other appropriate arrangements have been made
to provide those clients with those services and the requirements of paragraph (b) are met.
(b) The commissioner shall notify the chairs of the house and senate committees with
jurisdiction over health and human services fiscal issues of plans to use other arrangements to
provide medically necessary psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients
in the Faribault service area. The commissioner must not implement these arrangements unless
a regular legislative session has convened and adjourned since the date notice was given under
this paragraph.
History: 2000 c 465 s 6

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