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§43A-3-701.


§43A-3-701.
   
   It shall be the responsibility of the Department of Mental Health and
   Substance Abuse Services, within facilities and professional
   capabilities, to provide at Griffin Memorial Hospital, Norman,
   Oklahoma, such medical and surgical inpatient and outpatient care as
   may be required by inmates from the several correctional institutions
   that are properly referred to the hospital by the Department of
   Corrections. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
   Services may refer to the University Hospitals, and the latter shall
   accept those correctional inmate patients who are beyond the
   facilities and professional capability of Griffin Memorial Hospital.
   The Department of Corrections shall be responsible for transporting
   to, from, and between hospitals and for providing such physical
   security of correctional inmate patients as may be required beyond
   that security normal to hospital operation. The Department of
   Corrections shall immediately remove from the hospital those inmate
   patients as they are discharged by the hospital. The hospital services
   provided by Griffin Memorial Hospital and the University Hospitals
   shall be without cost to the Department of Corrections.
   

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