(a) A community center shall provide screening services for:
(1) a person who requests voluntary admission to a Department of State Health Services facility for persons with mental illness; and
(2) a person for whom proceedings for involuntary commitment to a Department of State Health Services or Department of Aging and Disability Services facility for persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability have been initiated.
(b) A community center shall provide continuing mental health and physical care services for a person referred to the center by a Department of State Health Services facility and for whom the facility superintendent has recommended a continuing care plan.
(c) Services provided under this section must be consistent with the applicable rules and standards of each appropriate department.
(d) The appropriate commissioner may designate a facility other than the community center to provide the screening or continuing care services if:
(1) local conditions indicate that the other facility can provide the services more economically and effectively; or
(2) the commissioner determines that local conditions may impose an undue burden on the community center.