Code of Virginia - Title 37.2 Mental Health, Mental Retardation, And Substance Abuse Services - Chapter 7 State Facilities

37.2-700 Construction of state facilities; razing buildings
A. The Commissioner, subject to the approval of the Board and the Governor, shall determine the necessity for and select the site of any new ...

37.2-701 Examination of properties; certain property not to be declared surplus
The Commissioner is hereby authorized to examine the condition of the state facilities operated by the Department based upon the practices and methods employed by ...

37.2-702 Separate state facilities for geriatric consumers; free-standing state facilities authorize...
The Department shall establish and operate a separate geriatric unit within each state facility that serves significant numbers of elderly individuals. Each unit shall provide ...

37.2-703 Commissioner to prescribe system of records, accounts, and reports; access to records, accounts, an...
The Commissioner shall prescribe and cause to be established and maintained at all state facilities: (a) A uniform, proper, and approved system of keeping the ...

37.2-704 Commissioner authorized to receive and expend social security and other federal payments for consum...
The Commissioner, under any provision of federal law and regulation and with the approval of the Governor, may be appointed or function as the agent ...

37.2-705 Private funds provided for consumers
A. The Commissioner is hereby authorized to provide for the deposit with the director or other proper officer of any state facility of any money ...

37.2-706 Disposal of unclaimed personal property of certain consumers in state facilities
If any consumer in a state facility dies, is released, is discharged, or escapes and leaves any article of personal property, including bonds, money, and ...

37.2-707 Employment and qualifications of directors of state facilities.
The Commissioner shall employ a director for each state facility who shall be skilled in facility management and administration and who shall meet requirements that ...

37.2-708 Salaries of directors and other employees of state facilities
The directors and other employees of state facilities shall each annually receive such salaries as shall be fixed from time to time in the appropriation ...

37.2-709 State facility reporting requirements; Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy
Each director of a state facility shall notify the Director of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy, pursuant to § 51.5-39.12, in writing within ...

37.2-710 State facility reporting requirements; Virginia Patient Level Data system
State facilities shall report such patient-level data and financial data as may be required to the Virginia Patient Level Data system in accordance with Chapter ...

37.2-711 Exchange of information
The Department and state facilities may exchange consumer-specific information for former and current consumers with community services boards or behavioral health authorities to monitor the ...

37.2-712 Collection and dissemination of information concerning religious preferences and affiliation...
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any state facility may collect and disseminate information concerning the religious preferences and affiliations of its consumers, ...

37.2-713 Residence of consumers in state facilities and school-age children in state facilities generall...
For purposes of eligibility for and receipt of social services and public assistance, each consumer in a state facility shall be deemed a resident of ...

37.2-714 Children born in state facilities
Any child born in a state facility shall be deemed a resident of the county or city in which the mother resided at the time ...

37.2-715 Who liable for expenses; amount
Any person who has been or who may be admitted to any state facility or who is the subject of counseling or receives treatment from ...

37.2-716 Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services Revenue Fund
All funds collected by the Department pursuant to this article shall be paid into a special fund of the state treasury that shall be known ...

37.2-717 Department to investigate financial ability to pay expenses; assessments and contracts by Departmen...
A. The Department shall investigate and determine which consumers or parents, guardians, conservators, trustees, or other persons legally responsible for consumers are financially able to ...

37.2-718 Order to compel payment of expenses
A. When any consumer or his guardian, conservator, trustee, or other person liable for his expenses fails to pay those expenses and it appears from ...

37.2-719 Statement forms to be completed by the person liable for support of the consumer
The Commissioner may prescribe statement forms that shall be completed by those persons liable under § 37.2-715 for the support of the consumer. The statement ...

37.2-720 When collection of expenses not required
This article shall not be held or construed to require the Department to collect the expenses of the care, treatment or training, and maintenance of ...

37.2-721 Liability of estate of consumer
Upon the death of any consumer or former consumer, his estate shall be liable only for the charges remaining unpaid and not more than five ...