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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 25 - Public Health and Environment » Article 3 - Hospitals » Part 3 - County Hospitals - Establishment

§ 25-3-301. Establishment of Public Hospital

Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county which has a population of at least three thousand is presented with a petition signed by five hundred resident registered qualified electors, or by fifty percent of the resident registered qualified electors of such county, at least two hundred fifty of whom are residents of other […]

§ 25-3-302. Board of Trustees

If a board of county commissioners decides to create a public hospital board of trustees, levy an annual tax, and appropriate funds to purchase, erect, and maintain or turn over to the public hospital board of trustees control of a county hospital, the board of county commissioners shall proceed at once to appoint to the […]

§ 25-3-303. Organization of Trustees

The members of the board of public hospital trustees within ten days after their appointment shall qualify by taking the oath of office. On the second Tuesday of each January, they shall organize and operate as follows: Unless otherwise authorized under the provisions of paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), they shall elect one of […]

§ 25-3-304. Trustees – Powers and Duties

A public hospital board of trustees shall make and adopt such bylaws, rules, and regulations for its own guidance and for the government of the hospital as it deems expedient for the economic and equitable conduct thereof, not inconsistent with state law or the ordinances of the city or town in which the public hospital […]

§ 25-3-305. Vacancies – Removal for Cause

Vacancies in the board of trustees occasioned by removals, resignations, or otherwise shall be reported to the board of county commissioners and be filled in like manner as original appointments. Any trustee may be removed for cause by the board of county commissioners. Source: L. 43: p. 278, § 5. CSA: C. 78, § 151(5). […]

§ 25-3-306. Right of Eminent Domain

If the board of public hospital trustees and the owners of any property desired by it for hospital purposes cannot agree as to the price to be paid therefor, said board shall report the facts to the board of county commissioners, and condemnation proceedings shall be instituted by the board of county commissioners and prosecuted […]

§ 25-3-307. Building Requirements

No hospital buildings shall be erected or constructed until the plans and specifications have been made therefor and adopted by the board of public hospital trustees and bids advertised for according to law as for other county public buildings. Such hospital may be in more than one unit or set of buildings within the same […]

§ 25-3-308. Improvements or Enlargements

In counties exercising the rights conferred by this part 3, the board of county commissioners may appropriate each year, in addition to the tax for hospital fund provided for in section 25-3-301, not more than five percent of its general fund for the improvement or enlargement of any public hospital so established. Source: L. 43: […]

§ 25-3-309. Hospital Fees

Every hospital established under this part 3 is for the benefit of the inhabitants of the county and of any person falling sick or who is injured or maimed within its limits. Every inhabitant or person who is not indigent shall pay to the board of public hospital trustees or to the officer it designates […]

§ 25-3-310. Rules and Regulations

When such hospital is established, the physicians, nurses, attendants, persons sick therein, and persons approaching or coming within the limits of same and all buildings and grounds of such hospital and all furniture and other articles used or brought there shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said public hospital board may prescribe. […]

§ 25-3-311. Donations Permitted

Any person, firm, organization, corporation, or society desiring to make donations of money, personal property, or real estate for the benefit of such public hospital shall have the right to vest title of the money, personal property, or real estate so donated in said county, to be controlled, when accepted, by the board of public […]

§ 25-3-312. Training School for Nurses

The board of trustees of such county public hospital may establish and maintain, in connection therewith and as a part of said public hospital, a training school for nurses. Source: L. 43: p. 279, § 12. CSA: C. 78, § 151(12). CRS 53: § 66-7-12. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-7-12.

§ 25-3-313. Lease of Hospital

The public hospital board having control of such hospital after its establishment and turning over to its management may in its discretion rent or lease the said hospital, for such rental and for such term as it deems reasonable and proper, to any corporation not for pecuniary profit duly organized under the laws of the […]

§ 25-3-314. Charge for Professional Services

Any hospital which is owned by a county, or by a city and county, having a population in excess of two hundred fifty thousand persons and which is a teaching hospital duly accredited as such by the joint commission on accreditation of hospitals and by the council on medical education of the American medical association […]

§ 25-3-315. Records of Hospital

For purposes of part 2 of article 72 of title 24, C.R.S., the records of any hospital established pursuant to this part 3 shall continue to be public records, as defined in section 24-72-202 (6), C.R.S., regardless of whether such hospital is designated as an enterprise pursuant to section 25-3-304 (3). Source: L. 93: Entire […]