{"id":"CO-065","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Colorado","state":"CO","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Jared Polis","authority":"C.R.S. § 24-33.5-704","instrument":"Executive Order D 2020 260","title":"Authorizing the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to Order Hospitals and Freestanding Emergency Departments to Transfer or Cease the Admission of Patients to Respond to the Current COVID-19 Disaster Emergency in Colorado","dateIssued":"2020-11-23","effective":"2020-11-23","end":"Thirty days; extended by D 2020 286 (Dec. 22, 2020), D 2021 020 (Jan. 20) and D 2021 046 (Feb. 18, 2021); reissued after the period as D 2021 135 (Oct. 31, 2021)","startDate":"2020-11-23","endDate":"2021-03-31","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["HC","SUPPLY"],"addressees":["hospitals","freestanding emergency departments","CDPHE","Division of Insurance and carriers"],"clause":"[Authorizes CDPHE to order hospitals and freestanding emergency departments to transfer patients or cease admissions to balance statewide capacity;] Hospitals and freestanding emergency departments shall not consider a patient\u0027s [insurance status in transfers]... [facilities that in good] faith comply completely with this Executive Order shall be immune from civil or [criminal liability]","enforcement":"CDPHE orders to facilities; State ESF 8 lead notification","functions":["ED emergency department","IP inpatient surge","CB patients and payers"],"notes":"The November 2020 surge instrument; hospital capacity was the trigger for the Level Red re-tightening","sourceUrl":"https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download\u0026id=1--7LsfDWBAqHhOR-if9W1ZLy1-dcvJm6","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":323612,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"CO","url":"/library/CO-065","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/CO-065","citation":"Governor Jared Polis, Executive Order D 2020 260 (Nov. 23, 2020) (Ex. CO-065)","stateName":"Colorado","related":["CO-071","CO-034","CO-072"]}