Colorado § 25.5-1-123 - Medical homes for children - legislative declaration - duties of the department.

§ 25.5-1-123. Medical homes for children - legislative declaration - duties of the department.

(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that:

(a) The best medical care for infants, children, and adolescents is provided through a medical home, as defined in section 25.5-1-103, and that is consistent with the joint principles of a patient-centered medical home. Those principles shall include a whole-person orientation, care that is coordinated and integrated across all elements of the complex health-care system and the patient's community, and care that provides for quality and safety of the patient where qualified health-care practitioners provide primary care and help manage and facilitate all aspects of medical care.

(b) Infants, children, and adolescents and their families work best with a health-care practitioner who knows the family and who develops a partnership of mutual responsibility and trust;

(c) Medical care provided through emergency departments, walk-in clinics, and other urgent-care facilities is often more costly and less effective than care given by a physician with prior knowledge of the child and his or her family; and

(d) The state department should strive to find a medical home for each child receiving services through the state medical assistance program, articles 4, 5, and 6 of this title, or the children's basic health plan, article 8 of this title.

(2) On or before July 1, 2008, the state department, in conjunction with the Colorado medical home initiative in the department of public health and environment, shall develop systems and standards to maximize the number of children enrolled in the state medical assistance program or the children's basic health plan who have a medical home. The systems and standards developed shall include, but need not be limited to, ways to ensure that a medical home shall offer family-centered, compassionate, culturally effective care and sensitive, respectful communication to a child and his or her family.

(3) Repealed.

Source: L. 2007: Entire section added, p. 1488, § 2, effective May 31. L. 2017: (3) repealed, (HB 17-1060), ch. 6, p. 15, § 3, effective March 1.