SB 22-189 CO Introduced
Colorado Geriatric Provider Pipeline Program
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Summary
The bill creates the Colorado multidisciplinary geriatric provider pipeline program (program) in the university of Colorado Anschutz medical campus. The program coordinates and expands geriatric training opportunities for clinical graduate students enrolled in participating institutions of higher education who study in the health-care fields of medicine, medicine with a focus on training to be a physician assistant, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, and social work. The bill creates the geriatric training executive advisory committee (committee) to ensure that the training for the program is consistent and collaborative across the health-care fields of study. The committee is required to: Set the program's standards for training and delivery of medical care to the most frail and medically complex, costly, and compromised older Coloradans; Collaborate with participating institutions of higher education across Colorado to select clinical graduate students who have an interest in geriatric care to participate in the program; Analyze data collected by the program; Build relationships, collaborate, and create a multidisciplinary team that provides opportunities for clinicians to work together in teams to better understand the roles of each discipline and better place clinical graduate students for experiential training opportunities; and Coordinate with graduates of the program for opportunities to become trainers to future clinical graduate students once practicing in the graduate's field of study.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Sponsors (4)
- Jessie Danielson Democratic · primary
- Brittany Pettersen · primary
- Monica Duran Democratic · primary
- Brianna Titone Democratic · primary
Action history (3)
- May 10, 2022 Senate Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely · upper
- Apr 18, 2022 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations · upper
- Mar 29, 2022 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services · upper
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