About the Division
Activities || Funding Sources || Trends
The Division of Registrations provides consumer protection through its regulation of 345,000 licensees within more than 47 professions, occupations, and entities in the State of Colorado. The Division’s boards and programs have been created by the Colorado Legislature to ensure a minimal level of competence of licensees and to protect the public.
The boards and programs in the Division share a common set of goals:
- Identify and license qualified practitioners, facilities, programs, and equipment.
- Conduct investigations and inspections to ensure compliance with generally accepted standards of practice, conduct, or safety.
- Restrict, suspend, or revoke licenses when those generally accepted standards are not met.
- Communicate to effectively inform, verify, educate, and advise.
- Administer the regulatory programs efficiently.
Review the most recent budget request submitted by the Department. This document includes data for each of the Division’s boards and programs for the most current fiscal year. Workload statistics include examinations, new licenses, license renewals and reinstatements, active licenses, complaints received and handled, inspections, board or program actions, complaints investigated and expedited settlement.
Funding Sources
Updated data for expenditures and revenue will be posted soon.
- There is a movement to develop effective methods for ensuring and measuring continued competency for licensed professionals. States struggle with developing cost effective and efficient methods to assure the public of ongoing competency of regulated professionals.
- Continuing efforts are being made to assure that impaired practitioners obtain the help they need through peer assistance programs or are taken out of practice if they pose a danger to public safety.
- Consumer use of alternative health care providers continues to increase, resulting in a desire for a number of currently unregulated alternative health care providers to seek regulation.
- There is an increased desire for quick and easy mobility across state lines for licensed professionals. One result of this has been the implementation of the Nurse Compact of which more than twenty states, including Colorado, are currently members.
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