Colorado Code
Part 1 - General and Administrative
§ 25-3.5-103. Definitions

As used in this article 3.5, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1.3) "Air ambulance service" means any public or private entity that uses an air ambulance to transport patients to a medical facility.
(1.5) "Ambulance" means any privately or publicly owned ground vehicle:




(3.3) "Behavioral health" has the same meaning as set forth in section 25-27.6-102 (4).
(3.5) "Board" means the state board of health created pursuant to section 25-1-103.

(4.3) "Community integrated health-care service" means the provision of certain out-of-hospital medical services, as determined by rule, that a community paramedic may provide.
(4.5) "Community paramedic" means an emergency medical service provider who obtains an endorsement in community paramedicine pursuant to section 25-3.5-206.



(7.5) "Emergency medical practice advisory council" or "advisory council" means the emergency medical practice advisory council created in section 25-3.5-206.

(8.1) "Emergency medical services facility" means a licensed or certified facility that provides emergency medical services, including but not limited to hospitals, hospital units as defined in section 25-3-101, freestanding emergency departments as defined in section 25-1.5-114, psychiatric hospitals, community clinics, community mental health centers, and acute treatment units.
(8.3) "EMS agency patient care database" means the department's database containing records required to be submitted in accordance with section 25-3.5-501.
(8.5) "Health information organization network" means an organization that oversees and governs the exchange of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards.
(8.6) "Justifiable medical emergency" means an underlying medical, traumatic, or psychiatric condition posing an immediate safety risk to the individual, emergency medical service provider, or public. Excited delirium, any subsequent term for excited delirium, or any acute psychiatric diagnosis not recognized in the most recent edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders is not a justifiable medical emergency.
(8.8) "Medical direction" includes, but is not limited to, the following:






(10.3) "Prehospital setting" means one of the following settings in which an emergency medical service provider performs patient care, which care is subject to medical direction by a medical director:



(10.6) "Refresher course program" means a program establishing a course of instruction designed to keep emergency medical service providers abreast of developments or new techniques in their profession, which course includes an examination administered at any time during or following the course to facilitate continuing evaluation of emergency medical service providers.
(10.8) "Registered emergency medical responder" means an individual who has successfully completed the training and examination requirements for emergency medical responders, who provides assistance to the injured or ill until more highly trained and qualified personnel arrive, and who is registered with the department pursuant to part 11 of this article.












(11.5) "Service agency" means a fixed-base or mobile prehospital provider of emergency medical services that employs emergency medical service providers to render medical care to patients.


Source: L. 77: Entire article added, p. 1279, § 2, effective January 1, 1978. L. 80: (1) and (3) amended, p. 633, § 1, effective April 8. L. 84: (10.6) added, p. 763, § 1, effective July 1. L. 87: (12) added, p. 1126, § 1, effective July 1. L. 94: (5) and (6) amended, p. 2757, § 418, effective July 1. L. 2000: (3.5) and (11.5) added, p. 526, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2005: (1) and (2) amended and (1.5) added, p. 1330, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2010: (7.5) added, (HB 10-1260), ch. 403, p. 1944, § 6, effective July 1. L. 2012: (8), (10.6), (11.5), and (12) amended, (HB 12-1059), ch. 271, p. 1437, § 20, effective July 1. L. 2016: (1.3) added, (HB 16-1280), ch. 206, p. 736, § 1, effective June 1; (4.3) and (4.5) added, (SB 16-069), ch. 260, p. 1062, § 1, effective June 8; (10.8) added, (HB 16-1034), ch. 324, p. 1310, § 1, effective August 10. L. 2018: IP amended and (8.3) and (8.5) added, (HB 18-1032), ch. 63, p. 612, § 1, effective August 8. L. 2019: (8) amended, (SB 19-242), ch. 396, p. 3518, § 1, effective May 31; (8.8) added, (SB 19-052), ch. 122, p. 527, § 1, effective August 2. L. 2021: (3.3), (8.1), and (11.4) added, (HB 21-1085), ch. 355, p. 2308, § 1, effective June 27; (8.6), and (10.3) added, (HB 21-1251), ch. 450, p. 2957, § 1, effective July 6;
Editor's note: Subsection (8.8) is similar to § 25-3.5-203 (5) as it existed prior to 2019.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration contained in the 1994 act amending subsections (5) and (6), see section 1 of chapter 345, Session Laws of Colorado 1994.

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