2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 25 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT (§§ 25-1-101 — 25-59-106) › HEALTH CARE (§§ 25-21-101 — 25-59-106) › Article 27.6 - BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ENTITIES (§§ 25-27.6-101 — 25-27.6-112) › Section 25-27.6-102 - Definitions

As used in this article 27.6, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"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.
(2)
"Alcohol use disorder" means a chronic relapsing brain disease characterized by recurrent use of alcohol causing clinically significant impairment, including health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, and home.
(3)
"Alcohol use disorder program" means a program for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of a person with an alcohol use disorder.
(4)
"Behavioral health" refers to an individual's mental and emotional well-being and actions that affect an individual's overall wellness. Behavioral health issues and disorders include substance use disorders, serious psychological distress, suicide, and other mental health disorders, and range from unhealthy stress or subclinical conditions to diagnosable and treatable diseases. The term "behavioral health" is also used to describe service systems that encompass prevention and promotion of emotional health and prevention and treatment services for mental health and substance use disorders.
(5)
"Behavioral health disorder" means one or more of the following:
(a)
An alcohol use disorder, as defined in subsection (2) of this section;
(b)
A mental health disorder, as defined in subsection (12) of this section; or
(c)
A substance use disorder, as defined in subsection (14) of this section.
(6)
"Behavioral health entity" means a facility or provider organization engaged in providing community-based health services, which may include behavioral health disorder services, alcohol use disorder services, or substance use disorder services, including crisis stabilization, acute or ongoing treatment, or community mental health center services as described in section
27-66-101 (2) and (3)
, but does not include:
(a)
Residential child care facilities, as defined in section
26-6-903
; or
(b)
Services provided by a licensed or certified mental health-care provider under the provider's individual professional practice act on the provider's own premises.
(7)
"Community-based" means outside of a hospital, psychiatric hospital, or nursing home.
(8)
"Community mental health center" has the same meaning as defined in section
27-66-101 (2)
.
(9)
"Community mental health clinic" means a health institution planned, organized, operated, and maintained to provide basic community services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of emotional, behavioral, or mental health disorders, such services being rendered primarily on an outpatient and consultative basis.
(10)
"Crisis stabilization unit" means a facility that provides short-term, bed-based crisis stabilization services in a twenty-four-hour environment for individuals who cannot be served in a less restrictive environment.
(11)
"Department" means the Colorado department of public health and environment.
(12)
"Mental health disorder" means one or more substantial disorders of the cognitive, volitional, or emotional processes that grossly impair judgment or capacity to recognize reality or to control behavior. An intellectual or developmental disability alone is insufficient to either justify or exclude a finding of a mental health disorder.
(13)
"State board" means the state board of health.
(14)
"Substance use disorder" means a chronic relapsing brain disease, characterized by recurrent use of alcohol, drugs, or both, causing clinically significant impairment, including health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home.
(15)
"Substance use disorder program" means a program for the detoxification, withdrawal, or maintenance treatment of a person with a substance use disorder.
Amended by 2022 Ch. 123, § 73, eff. 7/1/2022.
Added by 2019 Ch. 413, § 1, eff. 8/2/2019.
L. 2019: Entire article added, (HB 19-1237), ch. 3629, p. 3629, § 1, effective August 2.