C.R.S. Section 25-3-603
Department reports


(1)

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.

(2)

Repealed.

(3)

Intentionally left blank —Ed.

(a)

All data in reports issued by the department shall be risk-adjusted consistent with the standards of the national healthcare safety network.

(b)

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.

(c)

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.

(d)

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.

Source: Section 25-3-603 — Department reports, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-25.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

25‑3‑100.5
Definitions
25‑3‑101
Hospitals - health facilities - licensed - definitions
25‑3‑102
License - application - issuance - certificate of compliance required - rules
25‑3‑102.1
Deemed status for certain facilities
25‑3‑102.5
Nursing facilities - consumer satisfaction survey - pilot survey
25‑3‑103
License denial or revocation - provisional license - rules
25‑3‑103.1
Health facilities general licensure cash fund
25‑3‑103.5
Nondiscrimination - hospital surgical privileges - hospital rules and regulations
25‑3‑103.7
Employment of physicians - when permissible - conditions - definitions - repeal
25‑3‑104
Reports
25‑3‑105
License - fee - rules - performance incentive system - penalty
25‑3‑106
Unincorporated associations
25‑3‑107
Disciplinary actions reported to Colorado medical board or podiatry board
25‑3‑108
Receivership
25‑3‑109
Quality management functions - confidentiality and immunity
25‑3‑110
Emergency contraception - definitions
25‑3‑111
Authentication of verbal orders - hospital policies or bylaws
25‑3‑113
Health-care facility stakeholder forum - creation - membership - duties
25‑3‑115
Stroke advisory board - creation - membership - duties - report - definition - repeal
25‑3‑116
Department recognition of national certification - suspension or revocation of recognition
25‑3‑117
Heart attack database - hospitals to report data on heart attack care
25‑3‑118
Hospital off-campus location - obtain and use unique NPI - definitions
25‑3‑119
Freestanding emergency departments - required notices - disclosures - rules - definitions
25‑3‑120
Regulation of surgical smoke - requirement to adopt a policy - definitions - applicability
25‑3‑121
Health-care facilities - emergency and nonemergency services - required disclosures - balance billing - deceptive trade practice - rules - definitions
25‑3‑122
Out-of-network facilities - emergency medical services - billing - payment - deceptive trade practice
25‑3‑123
Mental health facility pilot program - establishment - rules - definitions
25‑3‑124
Food donations to nonprofit organizations encouraged
25‑3‑125
Visitation rights - hospital patients - residents in nursing care facilities or assisted living residences - limitations - definitions - short title
25‑3‑126
Health facilities - requirements related to labor and childbirth - rules - definitions
25‑3‑127
Emergency room intake data - marijuana use - annual report
25‑3‑128
Hospitals - nurses, nurse aides, and EMS providers - staffing requirements - enforcement - waiver - rules - definitions
25‑3‑129
Office of saving people money on health care - study - report
25‑3‑130
Intimate examination of sedated or unconscious patient - informed consent required - rules - definitions
25‑3‑301
Establishment of public hospital
25‑3‑302
Board of trustees
25‑3‑303
Organization of trustees
25‑3‑304
Trustees - powers and duties
25‑3‑304.5
Hospital collaborative agreements - additional powers
25‑3‑305
Vacancies - removal for cause
25‑3‑306
Right of eminent domain
25‑3‑307
Building requirements
25‑3‑308
Improvements, operations, or enlargements
25‑3‑309
Hospital fees
25‑3‑310
Rules and regulations
25‑3‑311
Donations permitted
25‑3‑312
Training school for nurses
25‑3‑313
Lease of hospital
25‑3‑314
Charge for professional services
25‑3‑315
Records of hospital
25‑3‑401
Department to administer plan
25‑3‑403
Department to administer federal mental health construction funds
25‑3‑601
Definitions
25‑3‑602
Health facility reports - advisory committee - creation - duties
25‑3‑603
Department reports
25‑3‑604
Privacy
25‑3‑605
Confidentiality
25‑3‑606
Penalties
25‑3‑607
Regulatory oversight
25‑3‑701
Short title
25‑3‑703
Hospital report card - rules - exemption
25‑3‑704
Fees
25‑3‑705
Health-care charge transparency - hospital charge report - definitions
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through Fall 2024

§ 25-3-603’s source at colorado​.gov