A statewide obstetrical and newborn indigent patient care program is established for the purpose of providing obstetrical and newborn care to medically indigent residents of this state. Appropriations by the general assembly for this chapter shall be allocated for the obstetrical and newborn patient care fund within the Iowa department of public health and shall be utilized for the obstetrical and newborn indigent patient care program as specified in this chapter. Indigent patients in need of such care residing in the counties of Cedar, Clinton, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott, and Washington shall be provided the care at the university hospitals under the nonquota obstetrical program under chapter 255.
87 Acts, ch 233, §436
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