Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 5, March 10, 2024
Adopted by the State Board of Health; October 21, 2015.
1. The Colorado Department of Public Health
and Environment encourages each primary health care provider or physician,
physician assistant, or nurse practitioner who treats a patient in an inpatient
or outpatient setting to offer a person born between the years of 1945 and 1965
a Hepatitis C screening test or a Hepatitis C diagnostic test unless the
specific circumstances delineated in §
25-4-2005(1)(a)
-(c), C.R.S., are met.
2. The
health care provider shall make the offer of a hepatitis C screening test or
diagnostic test to the patient in a linguistically and culturally appropriate
manner, in accordance with the following U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards:
2.1 Provide effective, equitable,
understandable, and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to
diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health
literacy, and other communication needs.
2.2 Advance and sustain organizational
governance and leadership that promotes CLAS and health equity through policy,
practices, and allocated resources.
2.3 Recruit, promote, and support a
culturally and linguistically diverse governance, leadership, and workforce
that are responsive to the population in the service area.
2.4 Educate and train governance, leadership,
and workforce in culturally and linguistically appropriate policies and
practices on an ongoing basis.
2.5
Offer language assistance to individuals who have limited English proficiency
and/or other communication needs, at no cost to them, to facilitate timely
access to all health care and services.
2.6 Inform all individuals of the
availability of language assistance services clearly and in their preferred
language, verbally and in writing.
2.7 Ensure the competence of individuals
providing language assistance, recognizing that the use of untrained
individuals and/or minors as interpreters should be avoided.
2.8 Provide easy-to-understand print and
multimedia materials and signage in the languages commonly used by the
populations in the service area.
2.9 Establish culturally and linguistically
appropriate goals, policies, and management accountability, and infuse them
throughout the organization's planning and operations.
2.10 Conduct ongoing assessments of the
organization's CLAS-related activities and integrate CLAS-related measures into
measurement and continuous quality improvement activities.
2.11 Collect and maintain accurate and
reliable demographic data to monitor and evaluate the impact of CLAS on health
equity and outcomes and to inform service delivery.
2.12 Conduct regular assessments of community
health assets and needs and use the results to plan and implement services that
respond to the cultural and linguistic diversity of populations in the service
area.
2.13 Partner with the
community to design, implement, and evaluate policies, practices, and services
to ensure cultural and linguistic appropriateness.
2.14 Create conflict and grievance resolution
processes that are culturally and linguistically appropriate to identify,
prevent, and resolve conflicts or complaints.
2.15 Communicate the organization's progress
in implementing and sustaining CLAS to all stakeholders, constituents, and the
general public.
