SB 22-189

Senate Bill 22-189, also known as the Colorado Geriatric Provider Pipeline Program, aims to create a program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus that trains graduate students in various health-care fields like medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, and social work to specialize in geriatric care. The bill establishes an advisory committee to set training standards, select participating students, analyze data, and coordinate efforts across different institutions to ensure a collaborative approach to geriatric education. This program is designed to improve the quality of care for elderly Coloradans who are frail or have complex medical needs. Since the bill has been signed into law, it is now in effect and implementation can begin.

Official 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.)