2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 26 - Human Services Code
Article 6.4 - Colorado Nurse Home Visitor Program
§ 26-6.4-105. 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 state board by selecting and presenting entities from among the applications submitted pursuant to section 26-6.4-106;

(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 state department in connection with the state department's financial administration of the program; and

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

(1.5) The health sciences facility is not responsible for the duties assigned to the state department with respect to the program under section 26-6.4-107 (2) (a.5).

(2) 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 rule of the state board. 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 state department pursuant to section 26-6.4-108.

(3) The state department shall compensate the health sciences facility for the health sciences facility's actual costs incurred in performing its duties under this article, as determined by the health sciences facility. Such duties and actual costs shall be included in the scope of work in the agreement between the state department and the health sciences facility for implementation of those duties and shall include the costs incurred by any contractor or subcontractor of the health sciences facility for those duties. Such compensation shall 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 under section 26-6.4-107 (2).