6 CCR 1011-1 Chapter 22, pt. 2 - [Effective 3/17/2025] DEFINITIONS

2.1 "Admission" means the acceptance of a registered client experiencing physiologic birth for labor and childbirth at the birth center.

2.2 "Auxiliary Staff" means licensed or unlicensed individuals with adult and neonatal resuscitation skills providing client care support to clinical providers. Auxiliary staff may include, but is not limited to; individuals regulated by Title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes who do not have midwifery in their facility-specific clinical privileges, regardless of their professional scope of practice, or birth assistants.

2.3 "Birth Assistant" means an individual not licensed or otherwise regulated under Title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes who has completed a structured course of study in providing support to clinical providers in non-hospital birth settings, and whose training includes hands-on competency testing and adult and neonatal resuscitation skills.

2.4 "Birth Center" means a freestanding facility licensed by the department that:

(A) Is not a hospital, attached to a hospital, or in a hospital;

(B) Provides prenatal, labor, delivery, and postpartum care to low-risk pregnant persons and their newborns; and

(C) Provides care during delivery and immediately after delivery that is generally less than twenty-four hours.

2.5 "Client" means a person receiving prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum services. Unless the context dictates otherwise, client also means an infant receiving newborn care services from the facility.

2.6 "Clinical Privileges" means the clinical, nursing, and other client care procedures, activities, and responsibilities the governing body approves an individual clinical provider, or auxiliary or contracted staff member, to perform while providing services at the birth center.

2.7 "Clinical Provider" means a member of the birth center's staff who is licensed or otherwise regulated under Title 12 of the Colorado Revised statutes to practice medicine or midwifery, and for whom the practice of medicine or midwifery is included in their clinical privileges.

2.8 "Facility" means a birth center.

2.9 "Intrapartum" means pertaining to the period of labor and birth.

2.10 "Low Risk Pregnancy" means expected normal, uncomplicated prenatal and intrapartum course assisted by adequate prenatal care and prospects for a normal uncomplicated birth based on continual screening for prenatal high-risk factors.

2.11 "Medical waste" means waste that may contain disease causing organisms such as discarded surgical gloves, sharps, blood, human tissue, products of conception; or waste that may contain chemicals that present potential health hazards such as pharmaceutical waste and laboratory waste.

2.12 "Physiologic birth" means labor and birth powered by the innate human capacity of a pregnant person and the pregnant person's fetus, which includes endogenous hormone systems.

2.13 "Registration" means acceptance of a pregnant person as a client of the facility for perinatal services prior to admission.

Notes

6 CCR 1011-1 Chapter 22, pt. 2

48 CR 04, February 25, 2025, effective 3/17/2025