Sec. 17a-466. (Formerly Sec. 17-211a). Contract for services for patients or former patients of department institutions. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 17a-466. (Formerly Sec. 17-211a). Contract for services for patients or former patients of department institutions. The Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services may contract with any public or private agency, including a general hospital and a public health nursing agency, for services for patients or former patients of institutions of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, including, but not limited to, laboratory tests, outpatient clinic services and examinations of, and public health nursing services to, discharged and paroled patients, and may, with the approval of the Commissioner of Administrative Services, contract for the services, on a full-time basis, of professional specialists whose services the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services is unable to obtain through procedures under chapter 67.

      (1969, P.A. 682; 1971, P.A. 153; P.A. 77-614, S. 124, 610; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 58.)

      History: 1971 act included contracts with public health nursing agencies for services performed by them; P.A. 77-614 required approval of commissioner of administrative services, rather than of personnel commissioner and personnel policy board, for contracts; Sec. 17-211a transferred to Sec. 17a-466 in 1991; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Mental Health with Commissioner and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995.