Code of Colorado Regulations
1000 - Department of Public Health and Environment
1009 - Disease Control and Public Health Response Division
6 CCR 1009-5 - PREPARATIONS FOR A BIOTERRORIST EVENT, PANDEMIC INFLUENZA, OR AN OUTBREAK BY A NOVEL AND HIGHLY FATAL INFECTIOUS AGENT OR BIOLOGICAL TOXIN
Regulation 3 - Preparations by Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers for an Emergency Epidemic
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 5, March 10, 2024
1. Each rural health clinic licensed by CDPHE and certified by the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, and federally qualified health center that operates medical facilities or pharmacies is required to maintain an up-to-date notification list for an emergency epidemic. The list shall include any satellite clinics, acute care facilities, or trauma centers operated by the organization, as well as offices of physicians and health care providers working as full-time contractors or staff of the organization. Each rural health clinic and federally qualified health center is required at least once per year:
2. Each, rural health clinic and federally qualified health center providing acute care shall prepare a plan that the organization will implement when the governor declares a disaster emergency that is the result of an occurrence or imminent threat of an emergency epidemic. The plan shall be reviewed and updated as needed but at least every 3 years, and submitted at least every 3 years to CDPHE. In addition, each rural health clinic and federally qualified health center shall ensure that a copy of the plan(s) are reviewed with and made available to its appropriate community partners. The plan shall address the following areas:
3. Each rural health clinic and federally qualified health center shall conduct at least one exercise of its plan every three years. If the rural health clinic or federally qualified health center activates its plan in response to one or more actual emergencies, these emergencies can serve in place of emergency response exercises. Each rural health clinic and federally qualified health center shall complete an after-action report and improvement matrix within 60 days of exercise or real incident completion. The report and the improvement matrix will be submitted to CDPHE.