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CO Code § 25-1.5-610 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 1.5 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Public Health and Environment|Part 6 - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act|§ 25-1.5-610. Rules

 The executive director of the department of public health and environment may promulgate rules to implement this part 6. In doing so, the executive director shall consult with and consider the recommendations of the department of agriculture with regard to veterinary services and the entity established to coordinate the implementation of the emergency management assistance compact and shall also consult with and consider rules promulgated by similarly empowered agencies in other states to promote uniformity of application of this part 6 and make the emergency response systems in the various states reasonably compatible.   History. Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations,(HB 17-1240), ch. 244, p. 1012, § 1, effective August 9.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-29.3-110 as it existed prior to 2017.
CO Code § 25-1.5-611 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 1.5 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Public Health and Environment|Part 6 - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act|§ 25-1.5-611. Civil Liability for Volunteer Health Practitioners - Vicarious Liability

 A volunteer health practitioner's immunity from civil liability may be affected by section 13-21-115.5 .   History. Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations,(HB 17-1240), ch. 244, p. 1012, § 1, effective August 9.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-29.3-111 as it existed prior to 2017.
CO Code § 25-1.5-612 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 1.5 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Public Health and Environment|Part 6 - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act|§ 25-1.5-612. Workers' Compensation Coverage

 (Reserved)
CO Code § 25-1.5-613 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 1.5 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Public Health and Environment|Part 6 - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act|§ 25-1.5-613. Uniformity of Application and Construction

 In applying and construing this part 6, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.   History. Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations,(HB 17-1240), ch. 244, p. 1012, § 1, effective August 9.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-29.3-113 as it existed prior to 2017.
CO Code § 25-3-100.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-100.5. Definitions

 As used in this article 3, unless the context otherwise requires:    “Acute treatment unit” means a facility or a distinct part of a facility for short-term psychiatric care, which may include treatment for substance use disorders, that provides a total, twenty-four-hour, therapeutically planned and professionally staffed environment for persons who do not require inpatient hospitalization but need more intense and individual services than are available on an outpatient basis, such as crisis management and stabilization services.    “Department” means the department of public health and environment.    “Heart attack database” means a national registry designed for heart attack data.    “Joint commission” means an independent, nonprofit organization that accredits and certifies health-care organizations and programs in the United States, or its successor entity.    “PCI center” means a hospital that performs percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), commonly known as coronary angioplasty, for acute myocardial infarction.    “STEMI” means ST-elevation myocardial infarction.     History. Source: L. 2006: Entire section added, p. 1391, § 22, effective August 7. L. 2017: IP amended and (2) to (6) added,(HB 17-1246), ch. 214, p. 834, § 1, effective May 18; entire section amended,(SB 17-242), ch. 263, p. 1324, § 188, effective May 25.    Editor's note:   Amendments to this section by SB 17-242 and HB 17-1246 were harmonized.   Cross references:   For the legislative declaration in SB 17-242, see section 1 of chapter 263, Session Laws of Colorado 2017.
CO Code § 25-3-103.1 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-103.1. Health Facilities General Licensure Cash Fund

  All fees collected pursuant to this article shall be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the health facilities general licensure cash fund, which fund is hereby created.    The general assembly shall make annual appropriations from the health facilities general licensure cash fund to partially reimburse the department of public health and environment for the direct and indirect costs of the department incurred in the performance of its duties under this article and for the purposes of section 25-1.5-103 (3.5). No appropriation shall be made out of the cash fund for expenditures incurred by the department pursuant to section (1)(a)(II) in carrying out duties relating to health facilities wholly owned and operated by a governmental unit or agency.     History. Source: L. 95: Entire section added, p. 1024, § 5, effective July 1. L. 2003: (2) amended, p. 709, § 37, effective July 1. L. 2008: (2) amended, p. 1948, § 2, effective June 2.
CO Code § 25-3-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-104. Reports

 Any person, partnership, association, or corporation maintaining any hospital or other facility for the treatment or care of the sick or injured shall make a report to the department of public health and environment upon request but not more frequently than quarterly. The department of public health and environment shall have power to investigate and shall have free access to such facilities consistent with section 25-1.5-103 (1)(a) .   History. Source: L. 09: P. 412, § 4. C.L. § 1056. CSA: C. 78, § 136. CRS 53: § 66-4-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-4-4. L. 71: P. 632, § 4. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 2752, § 408, effective July 1. L. 95: Entire section amended, p. 1024, § 6, effective July 1. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 709, § 39, effective July 1. History. Source: L. 09: P. 412, § 4. C.L. § 1056. CSA: C. 78, § 136. CRS 53: § 66-4-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-4-4. L. 71: P. 632, § 4. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 2752, § 408, effective July 1. L. 95: Entire section amended, p. 1024, § 6, effective July 1. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 709, § 39, effective July 1.    Cross references:   For the legislative declaration contained in the 1994 act amending this section, see section 1 of chapter 345, Session Laws of Colorado 1994.
CO Code § 25-3-106 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-106. Unincorporated Associations

 An unincorporated association organized and existing for the purpose of providing hospital services for its members shall be governed, managed, and controlled by a board of trustees selected in accordance with the provisions of the state constitution and bylaws of such association. Such board of trustees shall have the right to acquire, own, and hold, in the name of such association or in the name of persons who hold title in trust for said association, real property devoted to or connected with hospital purposes and to operate and manage the same in accordance with the laws of this state, and such board of trustees shall have the power and right from time to time to sell, convey, lease, or otherwise dispose of such property, including any hospital building of such association, whenever acquired, and to direct the sale, conveyance, lease, or other disposition of the same by persons who hold the title to such property in trust for said association to such purchaser, lessee, or other person or entity for such price and upon such terms and conditions as may be determined by resolution of the board of trustees of the association adopted by two-thirds vote of the entire board of trustees of such association at any regular or special meeting of said board. The sale, conveyance, lease, or other disposition of such property may be made in the manner provided in this section to any person, corporation, county, municipality, or other entity.   History. Source: L. 57: P. 416, § 1. CRS 53: § 66-4-6. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-4-6. History. Source: L. 57: P. 416, § 1. CRS 53: § 66-4-6. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-4-6.
CO Code § 25-3-107 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-107. Disciplinary Actions Reported to Colorado Medical Board or Podiatry Board

  Any disciplinary action to suspend, revoke, or otherwise limit the privileges of a licensed physician or podiatrist that is taken by the governing board of a hospital required to be licensed or certified pursuant to this part 1 or required to obtain a certificate of compliance pursuant to section 25-1.5-103 (1)(a)(I) or (1)(a)(II) shall be reported to the Colorado medical board or the Colorado podiatry board, whichever board is appropriate, in the form prescribed by said board.    Said hospital shall provide such additional information as is deemed necessary by the Colorado medical board or the Colorado podiatry board to conduct a further investigation and hearing.     History. Source: L. 76: Entire section added, p. 421, § 7, effective July 1. L. 79: (1) amended, p. 523, § 28, effective July 1. L. 85: Entire section amended, p. 505, § 23, effective July 1. L. 88: (1) amended, p. 527, § 11, effective July 1. L. 2003: (1) amended, p. 710, § 40, effective July 1. L. 2010: Entire section amended, (HB 10-1260), ch. 403, p. 1990, § 86, effective July 1.
CO Code § 25-3-111 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-111. Authentication of Verbal Orders - Hospital Policies or Bylaws

  A hospital licensed pursuant to part 3 of this article shall require that all verbal orders be authenticated by a physician or responsible individual who has the authority to issue verbal orders in accordance with hospital and medical staff policies or bylaws. The policies or bylaws shall require that:   Authentication of a verbal order occurs within forty-eight hours after the time the order is made unless a read-back and verify process pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subsection (1) is used. The individual receiving a verbal order shall record in writing the date and time of the verbal order, and sign the verbal order in accordance with hospital policies or medical staff bylaws.    A hospital policy may provide for a read-back and verify process for verbal orders. A read-back and verify process shall require that the individual receiving the order immediately read back the order to the physician or responsible individual, who shall immediately verify that the read-back order is correct. The individual receiving the verbal order shall record in writing that the order was read back and verified. If the read-back and verify process is followed, the verbal order shall be authenticated within thirty days after the date of the patient's discharge.       Verbal orders shall be used infrequently. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to encourage the more frequent use of verbal orders by the medical staff at a hospital.     History. Source: L. 2010: Entire section added, (HB 10-1229), ch. 199, p. 869, § 1, effective May 5.
CO Code § 25-3-113 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-113. Health Care Facility Stakeholder Forum - Creation - Membership - Duties

  There is hereby created in the department of public health and environment the health care facility stakeholder forum, referred to in this section as the “stakeholder forum”. The stakeholder forum must consist of representatives from various types of provider facilities licensed by the department, consumers, consumer advocates, ombudsmen, and other interested parties. The department shall meet at least four times each year with the stakeholder forum to discuss and take into consideration the concerns and issues of interest to the forum members and other attendees regarding the development and implementation of rules and other matters that affect all health-care facilities licensed by the department.    The members of the stakeholder forum serve on a voluntary basis without compensation and are responsible for noticing, staffing, recording, and reporting the notes from the stakeholder forum meetings. The department shall consider the attendance of its representatives at meetings with the stakeholder forum to be within the normal course of business, with no additional appropriation to or resources from the department required.    The stakeholder forum and the department shall work to coordinate with, and shall not duplicate the work being done by, established or statutorily authorized advisory committees or working groups on issues related to the development and implementation of rules.    For purposes of section 24-4-103 (2), C.R.S., as amended by House Bill 12-1008, enacted in 2012, the department may use the stakeholder forum described in this section, when appropriate, to serve as the representative group for the department of public health and environment.     History. Source: L. 2012: Entire section added,(HB 12-1294), ch. 252, p. 1258, § 8, effective June 4.    Cross references:   For the legislative declaration in the 2012 act adding this section, see section 1 of chapter 252, Session Laws of Colorado 2012.
CO Code § 25-3-116 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-116. Department Recognition of National Certification - Suspension or Revocation of Recognition

  A hospital that has an accreditation, certification, or designation in stroke or STEMI care from a nationally recognized accrediting body, including a certification as a comprehensive stroke center or primary stroke center by the joint commission or an accreditation as a STEMI receiving center or STEMI referral center by the American College of Cardiology Accreditation Services or its successor organization, may send information and supporting documentation to the department. The department shall make a hospital's national accreditation, certification, or designation available to the public in a manner determined by the department.    The department shall deem a hospital that is currently accredited, certified, or designated by a nationally recognized accrediting body as satisfying the requirements for recognition and publication by the department. The department may suspend or revoke a recognition and publication of a hospital's accreditation, certification, or designation if the department determines, after notice and hearing in accordance with the “State Administrative Procedure Act”, article 4 of title 24, C.R.S., that the hospital no longer holds an active accreditation, certification, or designation from a nationally recognized certifying body.    Whether a hospital attains a national accreditation, certification, or designation in stroke or STEMI care has no bearing on, or connection with, the licensing or certification of the hospital by the department pursuant to section 25-1.5-103 (1)(a).    Repealed.     History. Source: L. 2013: Entire section added, (SB 13-225), ch. 277, p. 1448, § 1, effective May 24. L. 2017: (1) amended and (4) repealed, (HB 17-1246), ch. 214, p. 834, § 2, effective May 18.
CO Code § 25-3-117 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-117. Heart Attack Database - Hospitals to Report Data on Heart Attack Care

     A hospital that is accredited by the American College of Cardiology Accreditation Services or its successor organization or any nationally recognized accrediting body as a STEMI receiving center shall report to the heart attack database data that is consistent with nationally recognized guidelines on individuals with confirmed heart attacks within the state. Within thirty days after receiving a quarterly report of a hospital's heart attack data from the heart attack database, a hospital accredited as a STEMI receiving center shall submit the report to the department.    Hospitals that are recognized as STEMI referral centers pursuant to section 25-3-116 and PCI centers that are not accredited as heart attack receiving centers are encouraged to report data to the heart attack database and provide quarterly database reports to the department.         Reports obtained by the department pursuant to this section are:   Privileged and strictly confidential;    Not subject to civil subpoena, not discoverable, and not admissible in a civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding against a health-care facility or health-care professional; and    Not directly available to the public.       With regard to reports obtained pursuant to this section, the department shall protect the confidentiality of patient records in accordance with state and federal laws and shall not disclose publicly any identifying or proprietary information of any hospital, hospital administrator, health-care professional, or employee.       The department shall sign a letter of commitment with any nationally recognized body whose reports are provided to the department pursuant to subsection (1)(a) of this section to ensure compliance with the confidentiality requirements and, as part of the letter of commitment, request reporting measures and metrics at the national level for benchmarking purposes.      History. Source: L. 2017: Entire section added, (HB 17-1246), ch. 214, p. 835, § 3, effective May 18.
CO Code § 25-3-118 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-118. Hospital Off-Campus Location - Obtain and Use Unique Npi - Definitions

  An off-campus location of a hospital must apply for, obtain, and use on all claims for reimbursement or payment for health-care services provided at the off-campus location submitted on or after January 1, 2020, a unique NPI that is separate and distinct from the hospital's NPI. The off-campus location's unique NPI must be included on any claim for reimbursement or payment for health-care services provided at the off-campus location, regardless of whether the claim is filed or submitted by or through a central office of the hospital or a health-care clearinghouse.    As used in this section:   “Health-care clearinghouse” has the same meaning as set forth in 45 CFR 160.103.    “NPI” or “national provider identifier” means the standard, unique health identifier for health-care providers that is issued by the national provider system in accordance with 45 CFR 162.    “Off-campus location” means a facility:   Whose operations are directly or indirectly owned or controlled by, in whole or in part, or affiliated with a hospital, regardless of whether the operations are under the same governing body as the hospital;    That is located more than two hundred fifty yards from the hospital's main campus;    That provides services that are organizationally and functionally integrated with the hospital; and    That is an outpatient facility providing preventive, diagnostic, treatment, or emergency services.           History. Source: L. 2018: Entire section added,(HB 18-1282), ch. 158, p. 1108, § 2, effective August 8.    Cross references:   For the legislative declaration in HB 18-1282, see section 1 of chapter 158, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.
CO Code § 25-3-120 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-120. Regulation of Surgical Smoke - Requirement to Adopt a Policy - Definitions - Applicability

  On or before May 1, 2021, each hospital with surgical services and each ambulatory surgical center, licensed in accordance with this article 3, shall adopt and implement a policy that prevents human exposure to surgical smoke via the use of a surgical smoke evacuation system during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke.    As used in this section:   “Surgical smoke” means the gaseous by-product produced by energy-generating devices including surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, or lung-damaging dust.    “Surgical smoke evacuation system” means equipment designed to capture and neutralize surgical smoke at the point of origin and before the surgical smoke makes contact with the eyes or the respiratory tract of the occupants of a room.        History. Source: L. 2019: Entire section added, (HB 19-1041), ch. 62, p. 226, § 1, effective August 2.
CO Code § 25-3-124 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-124. Food Donations to Nonprofit Organizations Encouraged

 Each hospital is encouraged to donate apparently wholesome food to one or more local nonprofit organizations for distribution to needy or poor individuals.   History. Source: L. 2020: Entire section added, (SB 20-090), ch. 127, p. 550, § 5, effective September 14.
CO Code § 25-3-126 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 1 - Hospitals|§ 25-3-126. Health Facilities - Requirements Related to Labor and Childbirth - Rules - Definitions

  Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, on and after January 1, 2022, a health facility that provides services related to labor and childbirth shall demonstrate to the department, in the form and manner determined by the department by rule, that the health facility has a policy that:   Allows every birthing person to have a companion or doula with the person during birth in addition to a partner or spouse;    Prioritizes newborns bonding with their families in order to facilitate the physiologic postpartum process;    Will not exclude from care any person experiencing physiologic birth or interrupt the process of physiologic birth without the informed consent of the birthing person;    Details the facility's process related to receiving a pregnant person's patient information from any provider regulated under title 12 who has provided care for the pregnant person; and    Establishes a process to transfer and receive pregnant persons across the facility's levels of care within the facility's capacity and capability.       For labor and childbirth services provided to a birthing person who is in custody, a health facility shall demonstrate to the department, in the form and manner determined by the department by rule, that the health facility has a policy that:   Prioritizes newborns bonding with their families in order to facilitate the physiologic postpartum process, unless:   The parent or legal guardian of the newborn consents to medical treatment;    The newborn is released to a legal guardian; or    The birthing person is released from labor and delivery; and       Will not exclude from care any person experiencing physiologic birth or interrupt the process of physiologic birth without the informed consent of the birthing person.       As used in this section:   “Doula” means a person who provides physical, emotional, and informational support to a pregnant person before, during, and after pregnancy.    “Physiologic birth” means labor and birth powered by the innate human capacity of a pregnant person and the pregnant person's fetus, which includes endogenous hormone systems.    “Physiologic postpartum process” means the biologic process that happens to both the newborn and birthing person after delivery due to endogenous hormone systems.        History. Source: L. 2021: Entire section added, (SB 21-193), ch. 433, p. 2864, § 8, effective September 7.