(1)Each person
receiving services must have access to appropriate dental and medical care and
treatment for any physical ailments and for the prevention of any illness or
disability.
(2)No medication for which a prescription is required shall be administered
without the written order of a physician. A physician shall conduct a review of all
prescriptions and other orders for medications in order to determine the
appropriateness of the person's medication regimen annually, or more often, if
required by law.
(3)All service agencies which administer medication shall require that
notation of the medication of a person receiving services be kept in the person's
medical records. All medications must be administered pursuant to part 3 of article
1.5 of title 25, C.R.S.
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(1) Each person
receiving services must have access to appropriate dental and medical care and
treatment for any physical ailments and for the prevention of any illness or
disability.
(2) No medication for which a prescription is required shall be administered
without the written order of a physician. A physician shall conduct a review of all
prescriptions and other orders for medications in order to determine the
appropriateness of the person's medication regimen annually, or more often, if
required by law.
(3) All service agencies which administer medication shall require that
notation of the medication of a person receiving services be kept in the person's
medical records. All medications must be administered pursuant to part 3 of article
1.5 of title 25, C.R.S.
(4) Persons receiving services must have a right to be free from unnecessary
or excessive medication. The service agency's records must state the effects of
psychoactive medication if administered to the person receiving services. When
dosages of such are changed or other psychoactive medications are prescribed, a
notation must be made in such person's record concerning the effect of the new
medication or new dosages and the behavior changes, if any, which occur.
(5) Medication must not be used for the convenience of the staff, for
punishment, as a substitute for a treatment program, or in quantities that interfere
with the treatment program of the person receiving services.
(6) Only appropriately trained staff shall be allowed to administer
medications.
(7) The executive director has the power to direct the administration or
monitoring of medications to persons receiving services and supports in centers for
persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities pursuant to section 25-1.5-301 (2)(h), C.R.S.
(8) No person receiving services may be subjected to any experimental
research or hazardous treatment procedures without the consent of such person, if
the person is over eighteen years of age and is able to give such consent, or of the
person's parent, if the person is under eighteen years of age, or of the person's
legal guardian. Such consent may be given only after consultation with the
interdisciplinary team and an intellectual and developmental disabilities
professional not affiliated with the facility or community residential home in which
the person receiving services resides. However, no such person of any age may be
subjected to experimental research or hazardous treatment procedures if said
person implicitly or expressly objects to such procedure.
(9) No person receiving services may have any organs removed for the
purpose of transplantation without the consent of such person, if the person is over
eighteen years of age and is able to give such consent. If the person's ability to give
consent to the medical procedure is challenged by the physician, the same
procedures as those set forth in section 25.5-10-232 shall be followed. Consent for
the removal of organs for transplantation may be given by the parents of a person
receiving services, if the person is under eighteen years of age, or by the person's
legal guardian. Such consent may be given only after consultation with the
interdisciplinary team and an intellectual and developmental disabilities
professional not affiliated with the facility or community residential home in which
the person receiving services resides. However, no person receiving services of any
age may be a donor of an organ if the person implicitly or expressly objects to such
procedure.
(10) (a) As used in subsections (8) and (9) of this section, consent also
requires that the person whose consent is sought has been adequately and
effectively informed as to the:
(I) Method of experimental research, hazardous treatment, or
transplantation;
(II) Nature and consequence of such procedures; and
(III) Risks, benefits, and purposes of such procedures.
(b) The consent of any person may be revoked at any time.
(11) Subsections (8), (9), and (10) of this section do not apply when a physician
renders emergency medical care or treatment to any resident.