1. A. Until February 1, 2002, 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 University Hospitals shall accept those correctional inmate patients who are beyond the facilities’ and professional capability of Griffin Memorial Hospital.
2. B. On and after February 1, 2002, it shall be the responsibility of the Department of Corrections or a contractor of the Department of Corrections to provide such medical and surgical inpatient and outpatient care as may be required by inmates of the Department of Corrections. The Department or a contractor of the Department may refer to the University Hospitals and the University Hospitals shall accept those correctional inmate patients who are determined by the Department of Corrections to be beyond the professional capabilities of the Department of Corrections or a contractor of the Department.
3. C. 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.
4. D. The hospital services provided by Griffin Memorial Hospital and the University Hospitals shall be without cost to the Department of Corrections.

Added by Laws 2002, SB 1487, c. 3, § 21, emerg. eff. February 15, 2002.