Colorado § 15-18.7-105 - Moral convictions and religious beliefs - notice required - transfer of a patient.

§ 15-18.7-105. Moral convictions and religious beliefs - notice required - transfer of a patient.

(1) A health-care provider or health-care facility that provides care to an adult whom the health-care provider or health-care facility knows to have executed a medical orders for scope of treatment form shall provide notice to the adult or, if appropriate, to the authorized surrogate decision-maker of the adult, of any policies based on moral convictions or religious beliefs of the health-care provider or health-care facility relative to the withholding or withdrawal of medical treatment. The health-care provider or health-care facility shall provide the notice, when reasonably possible, prior to providing medical treatment or prior to or upon the admission of the adult to the health-care facility, or as soon as possible thereafter.

(2) A health-care provider or health-care facility shall provide for the prompt transfer of an adult who has executed a medical orders for scope of treatment form to another health-care provider or health-care facility if the transferring health-care provider or health-care facility chooses not to comply with the provisions of the form on the basis of policies based on moral convictions or religious beliefs.

(3) Nothing in this section shall relieve or exonerate an attending physician or health-care facility from the duty to provide for the care and comfort of an adult pending transfer pursuant to this section.

Source: L. 2010: Entire article added, (HB 10-1122), ch. 279, p. 1280, § 1, effective August 11.