Colorado § 26.5-3-505 - Health sciences facility - duties.

§ 26.5-3-505. Health sciences facility - duties.

(1) The president of the university of Colorado shall identify a facility at the university of Colorado health sciences center with the knowledge and expertise necessary to:

(a) Assist the executive director by selecting and presenting entities from among the applications submitted pursuant to section 26.5-3-506;

(b) Provide programmatic and clinical support, evaluation, and monitoring for the program, including nurse practice support and training, clinical and programmatic technical assistance, compliance monitoring and support, program development and implementation support, and performance improvement monitoring and support, in communities throughout the state;

(c) Cooperate with the department in connection with the department's financial administration of the program; and

(d) Work with the state auditor's office as required in section 2-3-113 (4).

(2) The health sciences facility is not responsible for the duties assigned to the department with respect to the program pursuant to section 26.5-3-507 (2)(b).

(3) The health sciences facility shall perform the duties set forth in subsection (1) of this section to ensure that the program is implemented and operated according to the program training requirements, protocols, management information systems, and evaluation requirements established by department rule. The health sciences facility shall evaluate overall program implementation, operation, and effectiveness, and include that evaluation, along with any recommendations concerning the program's selected entities or changes in the program's implementation, operation, and effectiveness, including program training requirements, protocols, management information systems, or evaluation requirements, in the annual report submitted to the department pursuant to section 26.5-3-508.

(4) The department shall compensate the health sciences facility for the health sciences facility's actual costs incurred in performing its duties pursuant to this part 5, as determined by the health sciences facility. Such duties and actual costs must be included in the scope of work in the agreement between the department and the health sciences facility for implementation of those duties and must include the costs incurred by any contractor or subcontractor of the health sciences facility for those duties. Such compensation must be paid out of the amount allocated for the health sciences facility's costs, in accordance with the maximum allocation of three percent of the amount annually allocated for the program pursuant to section 26.5-3-507 (2).

Source: L. 2022: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 22-1295), ch. 123, p. 631, § 3, effective July 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 26-6.4-105 as it existed prior to 2022.