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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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