§ 27-93-106. Access to Inpatient Civil Beds at Institute
The department shall develop and implement admission criteria that ensures individuals, prior to being admitted, have been evaluated for the least restrictive level of care and that geographic location, current health-care provider, and payer type are not the primary determining factor in whether an individual has access to a civil inpatient bed. Source: L. 2019: […]
§ 27-94-101. Legislative Declaration
In order to provide a program to promote mental health in the state of Colorado, a mental health center is established as provided in this article. Source: L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 775, § 2, effective April 29. Editor’s note: This section is similar to former § 27-15-101 […]
§ 27-94-102. Establishment of Mental Health Center
There is hereby established at the site of Fort Logan, Denver county, Colorado, a mental health center to be known as the Colorado mental health institute at Fort Logan, referred to in this article as the “center”. The center shall be under the general supervision and control of the department of human services. All materials […]
§ 27-94-103. Employees – Adult Protective Services Data System Check – Publications
The head of the administrative division overseeing the center shall appoint or employ, pursuant to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, administrators, physicians, nurses, attendants, and additional employees as necessary for the proper conduct of the center. The head of the administrative division may contract with the board of regents of the […]
§ 27-94-104. Capacity to Take Property
The center is authorized to receive gifts, legacies, devises, and conveyances of property, real and personal, that may be granted or given to the center. The executive director of the department of human services, with the approval of the governor, shall make disposition of such property as may be for the best interest of said […]
§ 27-94-105. Admissions to Center – Transfers – Releases
A person who by law is committed to the department of human services for placement in a state hospital may be committed to or placed in the center upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction, except those persons committed to the Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo pursuant to a judicial determination of not […]
§ 27-94-106. Access to Inpatient Civil Beds at Center
The department shall develop and implement admission criteria that ensures individuals, prior to being admitted, have been evaluated for the least restrictive level of care and that geographic location, current health care provider, and payer type are not the primary determining factor in whether an individual has access to a civil inpatient bed. Source: L. […]
§ 27-92-108. Certificate – Prima Facie Evidence
In any action or proceeding to enforce the claims of the state provided for in this article, a certificate by the chief administrative officer of the institution involved or the executive director of the department of human services as to any fact or matter necessary to the establishment of the claim which is a matter […]
§ 27-92-109. Further Actions
A patient, spouse, or parent liable by this article who fails to pay the amounts assessed pursuant to this article shall be proceeded against in any manner authorized by law for the collection of sums due and owing to the state of Colorado. All property of persons liable pursuant to this article shall be subject […]
§ 27-93-101. Institute Established
There is established the Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo for the treatment and care of persons who may have a behavioral or mental health disorder from any cause and for other persons in state institutions on an inpatient and outpatient basis and in state programs relating to the treatment of substance use disorders who […]