(1) The rural hospital cash fund is created in the state treasury and is referred to in this section as the fund. The fund consists of money credited to the fund and any other money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund.
(2) The state treasurer shall credit all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of money in the fund to the fund.
(3) Money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the department of health care policy and financing for the purpose of distributing money in equal amounts to rural hospitals.
(4) On July 1, 2024, the state treasurer shall transfer one million seven hundred forty-two thousand twenty-nine dollars from the general fund to the fund.
(5) As used in this section, rural hospital means a hospital licensed or certified pursuant to section 25-1.5-103 (1)(a) or an affiliate owned or controlled, as defined in section 25.5-4-402.8 (1)(c), by a hospital, and that is located in a county with a population of fewer than fifty thousand residents or in a municipality with a population of fewer than twenty-five thousand residents if the municipality is not contiguous to a municipality with a population of twenty-five thousand or more residents.
Source: L. 2024: Entire section added, (SB 24-221), ch. 457, p. 3159, � 3, effective June 6.
25.5-4-434. Workplace violence in hospital settings - policy - verification of reporting requirements. (1) (a) Beginning July 1, 2026, and each July thereafter, the state department shall assess whether each hospital has adopted a formal policy to address workplace violence and submitted the reporting requirements to the department of public health and environment pursuant to section 25-3-703 (3)(f) for the next federal fiscal year.
(b) In accordance with section 25-3-703 (4), hospitals with fewer than one hundred beds are exempt from the reporting requirements.
(2) If a hospital has complied with the requirements of subsection (1) of this section, the state department shall affirm the hospital's satisfactory completion of the workplace violence prevention component of the quality incentive payments described in section 25.5-4-402 (3).
Source: L. 2025: Entire section added, (SB 25-166), ch. 169, p. 687, � 2, effective August 6.