(1) (a) Any person receiving evaluation or treatment under any of the provisions of this article is entitled to medical and psychiatric care and treatment, with regard to services listed in section 27-66-101 and services listed in rules authorized by section 27-66-102, suited to meet his or her individual needs, delivered in such a way as to keep him or her in the least restrictive environment, and delivered in such a way as to include the opportunity for participation of family members in his or her program of care and treatment when appropriate, all subject to available appropriations. Nothing in this paragraph (a) shall create any right with respect to any person other than the person receiving evaluation, care, or treatment. The professional person and the agency or facility providing evaluation, care, or treatment shall keep records detailing all care and treatment received by such person, and such records shall be made available, upon that person's written authorization, to his or her attorney or his or her personal physician. Such records shall be permanent records and retained in accordance with the provisions of section 27-65-121 (4).
(b) Any person receiving evaluation or treatment under any of the provisions of this article is entitled to petition the court pursuant to the provisions of section 13-45-102, C.R.S., subject to available appropriations, for release to a less restrictive setting within or without a treating facility or release from a treating facility when adequate medical and psychiatric care and treatment is not administered.
(2) The department shall adopt regulations to assure that each agency or facility providing evaluation, care, or treatment shall require the following:
Consent for specific therapies and major medical treatment in the nature of surgery.The nature of the consent, by whom it is given, and under what conditions, shall be determined by rules of the department.
The order of a physician for any treatment or specific therapy based on appropriatemedical examinations;
Notation in the patient's treatment record of periodic examinations, evaluations, orders for treatment, and specific therapies signed by personnel involved;
Conduct according to the guidelines contained in the regulations of the federal government and the department with regard to clinical investigations, research, experimentation, and testing of any kind; and
Documentation of the findings, conclusions, and decisions in any administrative review of a decision to release or withhold the information requested by a family member pursuant to section 27-65-121 (1)(g) or (1)(h) and documentation of any information given to a family member.
Source: L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 692, § 2, effective April 29.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 27-10-116 as it existed prior to 2010.