§ 12-265-115 — Mental and physical examination of licensees

Colorado § 12-265-115

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 12: Professions
• Art.: Nursing Home Administrators

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(1) (a) If the
board has reasonable grounds to believe that a licensee or temporary license
holder is unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to residents because of
a condition described in section 12-265-113 (1)(g) or (1)(h), it may require the person
to submit to a mental or physical examination by a physician or other licensed
health-care professional it designates. Upon the failure of the person to submit to
the mental or physical examination, unless due to circumstances beyond the
person's control, the board may suspend the person's license until the person
submits to the required examinations.

(b) Every licensee or temporary license holder, by engaging in the practice of
nursing home administration in this state or by applying for the renewal of a license
or temporary license, shall be deemed to have given consent to submit to a mental
or physical examination when so directed in writing by the board. The direction to
submit to an examination shall contain the basis of the board's reasonable grounds
to believe that the licensee is unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to
residents because of a condition described in section 12-265-113 (1)(g) or (1)(h). The
licensee shall be deemed to have waived all objections to the admissibility of the
examining physician's or other licensed health-care professional's testimony or
examination reports on the ground of privileged communication.

(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent the licensee from submitting
testimony or examination reports of a physician or other licensed health-care
professional designated by the licensee that pertains to a condition described in
section 12-265-113 (1)(g) or (1)(h) that may be considered by the board in conjunction
with, but not in lieu of, testimony and examination reports of the physician or other
licensed health-care professional designated by the board.

(3) The results of any mental or physical examination ordered by the board
shall not be used as evidence in any proceeding other than one before the board
and shall not be deemed public records nor made available to the public.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1387, � 1, effective October 1.