1998 Minnesota Code
Chapters 245 - 267 Public Welfare and Related Activities
Chapter 246 Public Institutions
Section 246.13 Record of patients and residents; department of human services.
246.13 Record of patients and residents; department of human services.
The commissioner of human services' office shall have, accessible only by consent of the commissioner or on the order of a judge or court of record, a record showing the residence, sex, age, nativity, occupation, civil condition, and date of entrance or commitment of every person, in the state hospitals under exclusive control of the commissioner, the date of discharge and whether such discharge was final, the condition of such person when the person left the state hospital, and the date and cause of all deaths. The record shall state every transfer from one state hospital to another, naming each. This information shall be furnished to the commissioner of human services by each public and private agency, with such other obtainable facts as the commissioner may from time to time require. The chief executive officer of each such state hospital, within ten days after the commitment or entrance thereto of a patient or resident, shall cause a true copy of an entrance record to be forwarded to the commissioner of human services. When a patient or resident leaves, is discharged or transferred, or dies in any state hospital, the chief executive officer, or other person in charge shall inform the commissioner of human services within ten days thereafter on forms furnished by the commissioner.
The commissioner of human services may authorize the chief executive officer of any state hospital for persons with mental illness or mental retardation, to release to public or private medical personnel, hospitals, clinics, local social services agencies or other specifically designated interested persons or agencies any information regarding any patient or resident thereat, if, in the opinion of the commissioner, it will be for the benefit of the patient or resident.
HIST: (4437) RL s 1889; 1957 c 319 s 1; 1961 c 750 s 13 subd 1; 1983 c 10 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1985 c 21 s 10; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 631 s 31
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