🧠Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Clinic · Colorado
Colorado: medical director and delegated services for a psychiatry or behavioral health clinic
Whether Colorado requires a physician medical director for a psychiatry or behavioral health clinic, the qualifications, duties, and what the state says about the staff who deliver protocol-driven services.
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Colorado's Behavioral Health Entity (BHE) licensing rule (6 CCR 1011-1, Ch. 3) requires a designated 'Clinical Director,' but leaves that role's qualifications to the BHE's own governing-body policy — no physician requirement. A medication-for-opioid-use-disorder endorsement may carry its own physician rule, but that section was repealed 5/15/2025 and its replacement wasn't located — verify separately for MOUD.
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