2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference

Emily and Erin will review Colorado’s state statute on who can determine medical decision-making capacity, and the limitations that imposes. They will then discuss how the UCHealth system evaluates and captures patient's capacity, prior to their intervention and how they have altered this process to better align with patient autonomy. Their conversation will inspire thoughts on how to apply patient-centered assessment and advocacy through multi-disciplinary team collaboration at your own work setting.

-Define Capacity per CO State Statute and how that applies within the healthcare setting -Describe UCHealth’s former and now current way of capturing patient decision making capacity -Evaluate patient-centered capacity assessments in your own setting