6 Colo. Code Regs. § 1011-4, pt. 6

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 17, September 10, 2024

Part 6 - DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

6.1 All secure transportation services in Colorado shall provide the Department with the required data and information as specified in Parts 6.2 and 6.4 below in a form and manner determined by the Department.

6.2 Beginning in 2024, all secure transportation services shall submit, in the form and manner determined by the Department, the following data no later than March 1 for the previous calendar year:

(A) The total number of transports (individual trips and trips with multiple clients as allowed in Part 8.4) that the service's vehicles made for the previous calendar year;

(B) The total number of adults (18+) served by the secure transportation service for the previous calendar year;

(C) The total number of minors (17 and under) served by the secure transportation service for the previous calendar year;

(D) The type of location where individuals were picked up and dropped off for the previous calendar year;

(E) The total number of individuals who were transported by the secure transportation service more than one time for the previous calendar year;

(F) The total number of transports (individual trips and trips with multiple clients as allowed in Part 8.4) that the secure transportation service declined due to lack of secure transportation service resources for the previous calendar year; and

(G) Demographic information for the previous calendar year, including, but not limited to:

(1) The total number of clients served by residential zip code;

(2) The total number of clients served by pickup location zip code; and

(3) The total number of clients served by gender, race, and ethnicity.

(H) The total number of clients the service transported who were not on involuntary holds (M1, M.5, and M8) for the previous calendar year.

6.3 Any secure transport resulting in the serious injury, illness, or death of a client or staff member during transport or resulting in injury to the client as a result of the use of physical restraint during transport shall be reported to the receiving facility immediately and to the county within twenty-four (24) hours of the incident in the manner and method determined by the county. Each report shall identify and describe the circumstances leading to the serious injury, illness, or death of a client or staff member during transport.

6.4 The secure transportation service shall complete and submit to the Department a secure transportation service profile in the manner and method determined by the Department. The profile shall include, but not be limited to: contact information for the licensee and its owner, manager, and/or administrator, demographics of the service area, number and types of responding staff, number of calls, counties served, organizational type, and number and type of vehicles.

(A) Secure transportation services shall update the profile data whenever changes occur and at least annually.

(B) As part of its profile, a licensed ground ambulance agency shall notify the Department if it is providing secure transportation services under its ground ambulance license.

6.5 Upon Department request, the county shall provide a list of secure transportation services it licenses and a list of all vehicles for which it has issued permits to provide urgent transportation services.

6.6 The Department may establish procedures to monitor and enforce compliance regarding submission of secure transportation service profile information as described in Part 6.4 and annual submission of utilization data as described in Part 6.2.

6.7 If a secure transportation service fails to comply with these rules, the Department may report this lack of compliance to any counties in which the service is licensed.

6.8 The Department may establish procedures to allow outside agencies, institutions, or individuals to obtain information from the secure transportation data system.

6.9 A secure transportation service may request the annual data that it has submitted to the Department.

6 CCR 1011-4, pt. 6

45 CR 14, July 25, 2022, effective 8/14/2022