Colorado Code
Part 1 - Hospitals
§ 25-3-101. Hospitals - Health Facilities - Licensed - Definitions

(1) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective July 1, 2022. ] It is unlawful for any person, partnership, association, or corporation to open, conduct, or maintain any general hospital; hospital unit; freestanding emergency department as defined in section 25-1.5-114; psychiatric hospital; community clinic; rehabilitation hospital; convalescent center; behavioral health entity; community mental health center or acute treatment unit licensed as a behavioral health entity; facility for persons with developmental disabilities, as defined in section 25-1.5-103 (2)(c); nursing care facility; hospice care; assisted living residence, except an assisted living residence shall be assessed a license fee as set forth in section 25-27-107; dialysis treatment clinic; ambulatory surgical center; birthing center; home care agency; or other facility of a like nature, except those wholly owned and operated by any governmental unit or agency, without first having obtained a license from the department.
















Source: L. 09: p. 411, § 1. C.L. § 1053. CSA: C. 78, § 133. CRS 53: § 66-4-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-4-1. L. 71: p. 631, § 1. L. 78: Entire section amended, p. 440, § 3, effective May 18. L. 83: Entire section amended, p. 1051, § 1, effective May 25. L. 84: (1) amended, p. 338, § 4, effective April 25. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 2750, § 404, effective July 1. L. 95: Entire section amended, p. 1023, § 2, effective July 1. L. 2002: (1) amended, p. 1329, § 16, effective July 1. L. 2006: (1) amended, p. 1391, § 23, effective August 7. L. 2008: (1) amended, p. 2233, § 2, effective August 5. L. 2011: (1) and (2) amended, (HB 11-1101), ch. 94, p. 277, § 2, effective April 8; (2)(a) amended, (HB 11-1323), ch. 265, p. 1198, § 2, effective June 2. L. 2012: (1) and (2)(a) amended and (4) added, (HB 12-1294), ch. 252, p. 1253, § 3, effective June 4. L. 2019: (1), (2)(a)(I)(B), and (2)(a)(III)(C) amended and (2)(a)(III)(D) added, (HB 19-1010), ch. 324, p. 2998, § 3, effective August 2; (1) amended, (HB 19-1237), ch. 413, p. 3641, § 12, effective July 1, 2022. L. 2020: (2)(a)(III)(A) amended, (SB 20-136), ch. 70, p. 287, § 22, effective September 14.
Editor's note: Amendments to subsection (1) by HB 19-1010 and HB 19-1237 were harmonized, effective July 1, 2022.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration contained in the 1994 act amending subsection (1), see section 1 of chapter 345, Session Laws of Colorado 1994. For the legislative declaration in the 2012 act amending subsections (1) and (2)(a) and adding subsection (4), see section 1 of chapter 252, Session Laws of Colorado 2012. For the legislative declaration in SB 20-136, see section 1 of chapter 70, Session Laws of Colorado 2020.

Structure Colorado Code

Colorado Code

Title 25 - Public Health and Environment

Article 3 - Hospitals

Part 1 - Hospitals

§ 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

§ 25-3-104. Reports

§ 25-3-105. License - Fee - Rules - Penalty - Repeal

§ 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 - Rules - Definitions

§ 25-3-122. Out-of-Network Facilities - Emergency Medical Services - Billing - Payment

§ 25-3-123. Mental Health Facility Pilot Program - Establishment - Rules - Definitions

§ 25-3-124. Food Donations to Nonprofit Organizations Encouraged

§ 25-3-126. Health Facilities - Requirements Related to Labor and Childbirth - Rules - Definitions

§ 25-3-127. Emergency Room Intake Data - Marijuana Use - Annual Report