Compassion.  Stabilization.  Expert Care.  A Start to Recovery.

A personalized team of caring and compassionate psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, mental health workers, social workers and case workers coming together to assist each patient and their support systems in a variety of areas, including family dynamics, social and medication issues, and discharge and post-discharge planning.

Patient Advocacy

A very important person in the hospital is our patient representative who serves as an advocate for our patients. Our patient representative is available to patients and/or loved ones to help in clarifying needs, linking inquiries to the right resources and assisting understanding of information, both given and received. They will help you with both grievances and compliments, patient rights, and the quality of care & service received during a patient’s stay.

Patient Representative: 970.683.7114
Office of Patient Advocacy: Toll-free 1.866.470.5928

Patient Bill of Rights

  1. YOUR TREATMENT You will be examined to determine your mental condition. If you understand and participate in your evaluation, care and treatment you may achieve better results. The staff has a responsibility to give you the best care and treatment possible and available, and to respect your rights.
  2. NO DISCRIMINATION You have the right to the same consideration and treatment as anyone else regardless of race, color, national origin, age, sex, political affiliation, financial status or disability.

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  1. YOUR TREATMENT You will be examined to determine your mental condition. If you understand and participate in your evaluation, care and treatment you may achieve better results. The staff has a responsibility to give you the best care and treatment possible and available, and to respect your rights.
  2. NO DISCRIMINATION You have the right to the same consideration and treatment as anyone else regardless of race, color, national origin, age, sex, political affiliation, financial status or disability.
  3. YOUR LAWYER You have the right to retain and consult with an attorney at any time. If you are hospitalized involuntarily, the court will appoint an attorney for you (at your own expense, if you are found able to afford one).
  4. TELEPHONES You have the right to ready access to telephones, both to make and receive calls in privacy.
  5. LETTERS You have the right to receive and send sealed letters. No incoming or outgoing letters will be opened, delayed, held or censored by personnel of the facility.
  6. WRITING MATERIALS You have the right to access letter writing materials, including postage. They will be provided, if needed. If you are unable to write, members of the facility will assist you to write, prepare, or mail correspondence.
  7. VISITORS You have the right to frequent and convenient opportunities to meet with visitors. The facility may not deny visits at any time by your attorney, clergyman or physician. You have the right to determine a ‘visitor’s list’ of whom you do and don’t want to see.
  8. REFUSAL OF MEDICATIONS You have the right to refuse to take medications, unless you are an imminent danger to yourself or others, or the court has ordered medications.
  9. CERTIFICATION If you are an involuntary patient, you have the right to a review of your certification or treatment by a judge or jury, and you may ask the court to appoint an independent professional person (psychiatrist or psychologist) to examine you and to testify at your hearing.
  10.  CLOTHING AND POSSESSIONS You have the right to wear your own clothes, keep and use your own possessions, and keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of your own money.
  11. SIGNING IN VOLUNTARILY You have the right to sign in voluntarily, unless reasonable grounds exist to believe you will not remain a voluntary patient.
  12. LEAST RESTRICTIVE TREATMENT You have the right to receive medical and psychiatric care and treatment in the least restrictive treatment setting possible, suited to meet your individual needs.
  13. TRANSFERS If you are certified, you have the right to twenty-four (24) hour notice before being transferred to another facility unless an emergency exists. You also have the right to protest to the court any such transfer, the right to notify whom you wish to about the transfer, and the right to have the facility notify up to two persons designated by you, about your transfer.
  14. CONFIDENTIALITY You have the right to confidentiality of your treatment records except as required by law.
  15. ACCESS TO MEDICAL RECORDS You have the right to see your medical records at reasonable times.
  16. FINGERPRINTS You have the right not to be fingerprinted unless it is required by law.
  17. PHOTOGRAPHS You have the right to refuse to be photographed except for hospital identification purposes.
  18. VOTING You have the right to the opportunity to register and vote by absentee ballot with staff assistance.
  19. RESTRICTIONS If you abuse rights regarding telephones, letters, writing materials, visitors or clothing and possessions, these rights may be restricted by your treatment team, and you must be given an explanation as to why the right is to be restricted. Restricted rights will be evaluated for therapeutic effectiveness every seven (7) days.
  20. GRIEVANCES Grievances or complaints may be submitted to the Colorado Department of Health, the Colorado Division of Behavioral Health or the Legal Center Serving persons with Disabilities. Your patient representative will help you select the proper agency for your complaint or grievance and assist you in preparing the complaint or grievance if you wish.

Daily Schedules

Adult Sample Schedule
Child & Adolescent Schedule