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CO Code § 25-3-603 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 6 - Hospital-Acquired Infections Disclosure|§ 25-3-603. Department Reports

  Notwithstanding section 24-1-136 (11)(a)(I), on or before July 15, 2017, and each July 15 thereafter, the department shall submit to the health and human services committees of the house of representatives and of the senate a report summarizing the risk-adjusted health-facility data. The department shall post the report on its website.    Repealed.      All data in reports issued by the department shall be risk-adjusted consistent with the standards of the national healthcare safety network.    The annual report must compare the risk-adjusted, health-care-associated infection rates, collected under section 25-3-602 for health facilities specified by the department for each individual health facility in the state. The department, in consultation with the advisory committee, shall make this comparison as easy to comprehend as possible. The report must include an executive summary, written in plain language, that includes, but is not limited to, a discussion of findings, conclusions, and trends concerning the overall state of health-care-associated infections in the state, including a comparison to prior years when available. The report may include policy recommendations as appropriate.    The department shall publicize the report and its availability as widely as practical to interested parties, including but not limited to health facilities, providers, media organizations, health insurers, health maintenance organizations, purchasers of health insurance, organized labor, consumer or patient advocacy groups, and individual consumers. The annual report shall be made available to any person upon request.    A health-facility report or department disclosure may not contain information identifying a patient, employee, or licensed health-care professional in connection with a specific infection incident.         History. Source: L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1572, § 1, effective June 2. L. 2016: (2) repealed and (3)(b) amended, (HB 16-1236), ch. 105, p. 304, § 3, effective April 15. L. 2017: (1) amended, (SB 17-056), ch. 33, p. 93, § 3, effective March 16.
CO Code § 25-3-604 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 6 - Hospital-Acquired Infections Disclosure|§ 25-3-604. Privacy

 Compliance with this part 6 shall not violate a patient's right to confidentiality. A patient's social security number and any other information that could be used to identify a patient shall not be released, notwithstanding any other provision of law.   History. Source: L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1573, § 1, effective June 2.
CO Code § 25-3-605 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 6 - Hospital-Acquired Infections Disclosure|§ 25-3-605. Confidentiality

  Except as provided by subsection (5) of this section, all information and materials obtained and compiled by the department under this part 6 or compiled by a health facility under this part 6, including all related information and materials, are confidential; are not subject to disclosure, discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion for release to any person, subject to subsection (2) of this section; and may not be admitted as evidence or otherwise disclosed in a civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding.    The confidential protections under subsection (1) of this section shall apply without regard to whether the information or materials are obtained from or compiled by a health facility or an entity that has ownership or management interests in a health facility.    The transfer of information or materials under this part 6 is not a waiver of a privilege or protection granted under law.    Information reported by a health facility under this part 6 and analyses, plans, records, and reports obtained, prepared, or compiled by a health facility under this part 6 and all related information and materials are subject to an absolute privilege and shall not be used in any form against the health facility, its agents, employees, partners, assignees, or independent contractors in any civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding, regardless of the means by which a person came into possession of the information, analysis, plan, record, report, or related information or materials.    The provisions of this section regarding the confidentiality of information or materials compiled or reported by a health facility in compliance with or as authorized under this part 6 shall not restrict access, to the extent authorized by law, by the patient or the patients' legally authorized representative to records of the patient's medical diagnosis or treatment or to other primary health records.     History. Source: L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1573, § 1, effective June 2.
CO Code § 25-3-606 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 6 - Hospital-Acquired Infections Disclosure|§ 25-3-606. Penalties

  A determination that a health facility has violated the provisions of this part 6 may result in the following:   Termination of licensure or other sanctions related to licensure under part 1 of this article; or    A civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars per violation for each day the health facility is in violation of this part 6.        History. Source: L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1574, § 1, effective June 2.
CO Code § 25-3-607 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 6 - Hospital-Acquired Infections Disclosure|§ 25-3-607. Regulatory Oversight

 The department shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with this part 6 as a condition of licensure under part 1 of this article and shall enforce compliance according to the provisions in part 1 of this article.   History. Source: L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1574, § 1, effective June 2.
CO Code § 25-3-701 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 7 - Colorado Hospital Report Card Act|§ 25-3-701. Short Title

 This part 7 shall be known and may be cited as the “Colorado Hospital Report Card Act”.   History. Source: L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1576, § 1, effective August 7.
CO Code § 25-3-703 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 7 - Colorado Hospital Report Card Act|§ 25-3-703. Hospital Report Card

  The executive director shall approve a Colorado hospital report card consisting of public disclosure of data assembled pursuant to this part 7. At a minimum, the data shall be made available on an internet website in a manner that allows consumers to conduct an interactive search that allows them to view and compare the information for specific hospitals. The website shall include such additional information as is determined necessary to ensure that the website enhances informed decision making among consumers and health-care purchasers, which shall include, at a minimum, appropriate guidance on how to use the data and an explanation of why the data may vary from hospital to hospital. The data specified in this subsection (1) shall be released on or before November 30, 2007.    Prior to the completion of the Colorado hospital report card, the executive director shall ensure that every hospital is allowed thirty days within which to examine the data and submit comments for consideration and inclusion in the final Colorado hospital report card.     History. Source: L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1579, § 1, effective August 7.
CO Code § 25-3-704 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3 - Hospitals|Part 7 - Colorado Hospital Report Card Act|§ 25-3-704. Fees

  The executive director shall annually determine the costs incurred by the department and the Colorado commission for hospital statistics in completing the requirements of this part 7.    The executive director shall apportion, according to net patient service revenues, the costs annually among the hospitals who pay the annual registration fee required by this section and report the same to the state board of health. The state board of health by rule or as otherwise provided by law may increase the amount of the annual fee imposed by this section. At no time shall the fee be higher than what is necessary to implement the report required pursuant to this part 7.    All fees collected pursuant to this part 7 shall be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the health facilities general licensure cash fund created in section 25-3-103.1.    Notwithstanding the amount specified for the fee in this section, the state board of health by rule or as otherwise provided by law may reduce the amount of the fee if necessary pursuant to section 24-75-402 (3), C.R.S., to reduce the uncommitted reserves of the fund to which all or any portion of the fee is credited. After the uncommitted reserves of the fund are sufficiently reduced, the state board of health by rule or as otherwise provided by law may increase the amount of the fee as provided in section 24-75-402 (4), C.R.S.     History. Source: L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1579, § 1, effective August 7.
CO Code § 25-3.5-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 1 - General and Administrative|§ 25-3.5-101. Short Title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Colorado Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Act”.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire article added, p. 1278, § 2, effective January 1, 1978. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 525, § 1, effective July 1.
CO Code § 25-3.5-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 1 - General and Administrative|§ 25-3.5-102. Legislative Declaration

  The general assembly hereby declares that it is in the public interest to provide available, coordinated, and quality emergency medical and trauma services to the people of this state. It is the intent of the general assembly in enacting this article to establish an emergency medical and trauma services system, consisting of at least treatment, transportation, communication, and documentation subsystems, designed to prevent premature mortality and to reduce the morbidity that arises from critical injuries, exposure to poisonous substances, and illnesses.    To effect this end, the general assembly finds it necessary that the department of public health and environment assist, when requested by local government entities, in planning and implementing any one of such subsystems so that it meets local and regional needs and requirements and that the department coordinate local systems so that they interface with an overall state system providing maximally effective emergency medical and trauma systems.    The general assembly further finds that the provision of adequate emergency medical and trauma services on highways in all areas of the state is a matter of statewide concern and requires state financial assistance and support.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire article added, p. 1278, § 2, effective January 1, 1978. L. 83: (1) amended, p. 1055, § 2, effective July 1. L. 89: (3) added, p. 1148, § 1, effective July 1. L. 94: (2) amended, p. 2757, § 417, effective July 1. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 525, § 2, effective July 1.    Cross references:   For the legislative declaration contained in the 1994 act amending subsection (2), see section 1 of chapter 345, Session Laws of Colorado 1994.   ANNOTATION   Limitation on entities eligible to license ambulances. Since the general assembly has indicated a coordinated system of emergency medical care to be of statewide concern and has provided a comprehensive statutory scheme to regulate the field, governmental entities other than those provided in § 25-3.5-301 may not license ambulances. DuHamel v. People ex rel. City of Arvada, 42 Colo. App. 491, 601 P.2d 639 (1979).   To subject ambulance companies to authority of two jurisdictions is contrary to purpose of section because it fragments the coordinated system and could reduce the availability of service. DuHamel v. People ex rel. City of Arvada, 42 Colo. App. 491, 601 P.2d 639 (1979).
CO Code § 25-3.5-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 1 - General and Administrative|§ 25-3.5-105. Rules and Regulations

 All rules and regulations adopted pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of article 4 of title 24, C.R.S.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire article added, p. 1281, § 2, effective January 1, 1978.
CO Code § 25-3.5-106 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 1 - General and Administrative|§ 25-3.5-106. Local Standards - Uninterrupted Service

  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent a municipality or special district from adopting standards more stringent than those provided in this article.    In no event shall the providing of service to sick or injured persons be interrupted, between point of origin and point of destination, when an ambulance run traverses one or more jurisdictions whose adopted standards are more stringent than those adopted in the jurisdiction where such ambulance run originates.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire article added, p. 1281, § 2, effective January 1, 1978.    ANNOTATION   This section does not refer to licensing of ambulances. DuHamel v. People ex rel. City of Arvada, 42 Colo. App. 491, 601 P.2d 639 (1979).
CO Code § 25-3.5-107 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 1 - General and Administrative|§ 25-3.5-107. Religious Exception

 Nothing in this article or the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this article shall be construed to authorize any medical treatment or transportation to any hospital or other emergency care center of an adult who objects thereto on religious grounds and signs a written waiver to that effect.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire article added, p. 1281, § 2, effective January 1, 1978.
CO Code § 25-3.5-201 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 2 - Treatment Subsystem|§ 25-3.5-201. Training Programs

  The department shall design and establish specialized curricula for personnel who respond routinely to emergencies. The board of county commissioners may select from the various curricula available those courses meeting the minimum requirements established by said board.    The department shall distribute the curricula and teaching aids to training institutions and hospitals upon request from a recognized training group or hospital. If a county is unable to arrange for necessary training programs, the department shall arrange a training program within the immediate vicinity of the agency requesting the program. The department shall issue emergency medical service provider certificates or licenses in accordance with section 25-3.5-203 (1) and may issue certificates of successful course completion to those individuals who successfully complete other emergency medical services training programs of the department. The programs may provide for the training of emergency medical dispatchers, emergency medical services instructors, emergency medical services coordinators, and other personnel who provide emergency medical services. The receipt of the certificate of course completion is not deemed state licensure, approval, or a determination of competency.    The department shall consider including in the department's training curriculum for personnel who respond routinely to emergencies the training curriculum concerning interactions with persons with disabilities recommended by the commission on improving first responder interactions with persons with disabilities pursuant to section 24-31-1004.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire article added, p. 1281, § 2, effective January 1, 1978. L. 92: (2) amended, p. 1143, § 1, effective May 29. L. 2010: (1) amended, (HB 10-1260), ch. 403, p. 1944, § 7, effective July 1. L. 2012: (2) amended, (HB 12-1059), ch. 271, p. 1428, § 2, effective July 1. L. 2019: (2) amended, (SB 19-242), ch. 396, p. 3528, § 15, effective May 31. L. 2021: (3) added, (HB 21-1122), ch. 405, p. 2691, § 6, effective June 30.
CO Code § 25-3.5-202 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 2 - Treatment Subsystem|§ 25-3.5-202. Personnel - Basic Requirements

 Emergency medical service providers employed or utilized in connection with an ambulance service shall meet the qualifications established, by resolution, by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the ambulance is based in order to be certified or licensed. For ambulance drivers, the minimum requirements include the possession of a valid driver's license and other requirements established by the board by rule under section 25-3.5-308 . For any person responsible for providing direct emergency medical care and treatment to patients transported in an ambulance, the minimum requirement is possession of an emergency medical service provider certificate or license issued by the department. In the case of an emergency in an ambulance service area where no person possessing the qualifications required by this section is present or available to respond to a call for the emergency transportation of patients by ambulance, any person may operate the ambulance to transport any sick, injured, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless person in order to stabilize the medical condition of the person pending the availability of medical care.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire article added, p. 1281, § 2, effective January 1, 1978. L. 78: Entire section amended, p. 409, § 1, effective April 4. L. 79: Entire section amended, p. 1011, § 1, effective July 1. L. 84: Entire section amended, p. 764, § 4, effective July 1. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 529, § 5, effective July 1. L. 2012: Entire section amended, (HB 12-1059), ch. 271, p. 1428, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2019: Entire section amended, (SB 19-242), ch. 396, p. 3528, § 16, effective May 31.
CO Code § 25-3.5-203.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 2 - Treatment Subsystem|§ 25-3.5-203.5. Community Paramedic Endorsement - Rules

  On or before January 1, 2018, the board shall adopt rules in accordance with article 4 of title 24, C.R.S., for community paramedics including standards for:   The department's issuance of an endorsement in community paramedicine to an emergency medical service provider;    Verifying an emergency medical service provider's competency to be endorsed as a community paramedic. The standards must include a requirement that the emergency medical service provider has obtained from an accredited paramedic training center or an accredited college or university a certificate of completion for a course in community paramedicine with competency verified by a passing score on an examination offered nationally and recognized in Colorado for certifying competency to serve as a community paramedic.    Continuing competency to maintain a community paramedic endorsement.       Rules adopted under this section supersede any rules of the Colorado medical board regarding the matters set forth in this part 2.     History. Source: L. 2016: Entire section added, (SB 16-069), ch. 260, p. 1062, § 2, effective June 8.
CO Code § 25-3.5-204 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 2 - Treatment Subsystem|§ 25-3.5-204. Emergency Medical Services for Children

  The department is authorized to establish a program to improve the quality of emergency care to pediatric patients throughout the state, including a component to address public awareness of pediatric emergencies and injury prevention.    The department is authorized to receive contributions, grants, donations, or funds from any public or private entity to be expended for the program authorized pursuant to this section.     History. Source: L. 95: Entire section added, p. 1361, § 4, effective July 1.
CO Code § 25-3.5-209 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 2 - Treatment Subsystem|§ 25-3.5-209. Use of Ketamine in Prehospital Setting When Peace Officer Is Present - Definition

     When a peace officer is present at the scene of an emergency, an emergency medical service provider authorized to administer ketamine in a prehospital setting shall only administer ketamine if the provider has:   Weighed the individual to ensure accurate dosage. If the emergency medical service provider is unable to weigh the individual, the emergency medical service provider shall, prior to the administration of ketamine:   Estimate the individual's weight, and at least two personnel who are trained in weight assessments must agree with the weight assessment; and    Attempt to obtain a verbal order from the emergency medical service provider's medical director or their designee, unless there is a verifiable reason the emergency medical service provider cannot obtain a verbal order.       Training in the administration of ketamine, including training to ensure appropriate dosage based on the weight of the individual;    Training in advanced airway support techniques;    Equipment available to manage respiratory depression; and    Equipment available to immediately monitor the vital signs of the individual receiving ketamine and the ability to respond to any adverse reactions.       The medical director of an agency that has a waiver to administer ketamine shall develop any necessary training for emergency medical service providers pursuant to this subsection (1).       An emergency medical service provider who administers ketamine shall:   Provide urgent transport to the individual receiving ketamine; and    Record any complications arising out of such administration, including but not limited to apnea, laryngospasm, hypoxia, hypertension, hypotension, seizure, and cardiac arrest.       Absent a justifiable medical emergency, an emergency medical service provider shall not administer ketamine in a prehospital setting to subdue, sedate, or chemically incapacitate an individual for alleged or suspected criminal, delinquent, or suspicious conduct.    If an emergency medical service provider does not comply with the provisions of this section, such noncompliance is considered misconduct, as defined in section 25-3.5-205 (5)(b).     History. Source: L. 2021: Entire section added, (HB 21-1251), ch. 450, p. 2958, § 2, effective July 6.
CO Code § 25-3.5-210 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25 - Public Health and Environment|Article 3.5 - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Part 2 - Treatment Subsystem|§ 25-3.5-210. Report on Statewide Use of Ketamine

 Beginning January 1, 2022, and each January 1 thereafter, the department shall submit a report on the statewide use of ketamine by emergency medical service providers and any complications that arise out of such use to the house of representatives judiciary committee, the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee, the senate health and human services committee, and the senate judiciary committee, or their successor committees. The department shall make the report publicly available on the department's website.   History. Source: L. 2021: Entire section added, (HB 21-1251), ch. 450, p. 2964, § 8, effective July 6.