As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1)Adult means a person eighteen years of age or older.
(2)Agent means a person eighteen years of age or older who is authorized
by an adult to make decisions concerning behavioral health treatment, medication,
and alternative treatment for the adult to the extent authorized by the adult.
(3)Behavioral health has the same meaning as set forth in section 27-60-100.3 (1).
(4)Behavioral health orders for scope of treatment, behavioral health
orders form, or psychiatric advance directive means a written instruction,
created pursuant to section 15-18.7-202, concerning behavioral health treatment,
medication, and alternative treatment decisions, preferences, and history to be
made on behalf of the adult who provided th
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As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) Adult means a person eighteen years of age or older.
(2) Agent means a person eighteen years of age or older who is authorized
by an adult to make decisions concerning behavioral health treatment, medication,
and alternative treatment for the adult to the extent authorized by the adult.
(3) Behavioral health has the same meaning as set forth in section 27-60-100.3 (1).
(4) Behavioral health orders for scope of treatment, behavioral health
orders form, or psychiatric advance directive means a written instruction,
created pursuant to section 15-18.7-202, concerning behavioral health treatment,
medication, and alternative treatment decisions, preferences, and history to be
made on behalf of the adult who provided the instruction.
(5) Behavioral health treatment means the provision, withholding, or
withdrawal of any behavioral health:
(a) Examination;
(b) Service;
(c) Procedure; or
(d) Medication.
(6) Disinterested witness means an adult other than a spouse, partner in a
civil union, domestic partner, romantic partner, child, parent, sibling, grandchild,
grandparent, health-care provider, person who at the time of the adult's signature
has a claim against any portion of the adult's estate at the time of the adult's death,
or person who knows or believes that he or she has an entitlement to any portion of
the adult's estate at the time of the adult's death either as a beneficiary of a will
that exists at the time of the adult's signature or as an heir at law, who can attest
that the adult executing the behavioral health orders form was of sound mind and
free of coercion when he or she signed the behavioral health orders form.
(7) Emergency medical service personnel means:
(a) An emergency medical service provider who is certified or licensed by the
department of public health and environment, created and existing pursuant to
section 25-1-102;
(b) An emergency medical responder or a registered emergency medical
responder, as defined in section 25-3.5-1102 (1) and (3);
(c) A crisis response system contractor, as defined in section 27-60-100.3 (4).
(8) Health-care facility means:
(a) A hospital;
(b) A hospice inpatient residence;
(c) A nursing facility;
(d) A dialysis treatment facility;
(e) An assisted living residence;
(f) An entity that provides home-based and community-based services;
(g) A hospice or home health-care agency;
(h) The Colorado mental health institute at Fort Logan;
(i) The Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo; or
(j) Another facility that provides or contracts to provide health-care services,
which facility is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to
provide medical treatment.
(9) Health-care provider means:
(a) A physician or other individual who provides medical treatment to an
adult and who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to
provide medical treatment or who is employed by or acting for such an authorized
person;
(b) A professional person, as defined in section 27-65-102 (27);
(c) A mental health professional licensed, certified, or registered pursuant to
article 245 of title 12; or
(d) Any other health-care provider regulated by the state when engaged in
assisting consumers with behavioral health-care access and coverage issues.
(10) Sound mind means the ability to provide informed consent to or refusal
of behavioral health treatment or the ability to make an informed behavioral health-care benefit decision.