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Sam Covington, Sr.. President
Genoa, Lincoln County
Sam J. Steele. First Vice President
Maybell, Moffat County
George H. Moore. Second Vice President
Sterling, Logan County
Harold D. Foster, Third Vice President
Alamosa, Alamosa County
Sam Gordon. Fourth Vice President
Springfield. Baca County
M. L. Starkweather, Immediate Past President
Pueblo. Pueblo County
I. Fred Schneider. General Counsel 8
Secretary -Treasurer, Denver
Mr. Thomas A. Richardson
Weld County Attorney
9223 9th Avenue
Greeley, Colorado 80631
Dear Mre Richardson:
September 22, 1966
OPINION
DENVER HEADQUARTERS
904 MAJESTIC BUILDING
DENVER. COLORADO 80202
PHONE 884-8928
J. FRED SCHNEIDER
GENERAL COUNSEL AND
SECRETARY -TREASURER
Norma Lee Ewing. Denver
Assistant Secretary
Reference is made to your letter of September 12, posing
several questions that your Board would like to have answered
and I will try and answer them as they are numbered.
"(1)'Can the osteopathic doctors be excluded from the
Weld County General Hospital by the Medical Doctors or
the Weld County Hospital Board of Directors (from the
use of the facilities such as operating rooms,etc.)?"
According to the Supreme Court, in Newton vs Com-
missioners, 86 Colo 446, the answer is yes.
"(2) May the osteopathic doctors treat welfare cases
under the provisions of General Assistance, as provided
by Welfare Regulations?"
My understanding is, that osteopathic physicians have
been qualified under the State Department of Public
Welfare's program.
"(3) When the County contracts with the Doctors of the
American Medical Association to care for the welfare
patients out of the County's General Assistance fund,
what alternative does the county have when the doctors
refuse to sign the contract as they demand more money
than the County can afford?"
660266
Mr. Richardson
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9/22/66
This is a difficult question . If the demands made by the
doctors of your community exceeds that set up in your budget,
you can't pay them and they'll have to collect from the
patients themselves.
"(4) May the County hire their own doctors such as hospital
interns to care for welfare patients?"
This poses the question, is the intern a doctor? He may
have an MD degree, but does he have a license to practice
medicine in Colorado? My understanding is that there are
certain sciences for which he has to have a license -then
he has to have a license issued by the medical board in
order to practice medicine.
"(5) Is there a limitation on the Welfare mill levy?
The answer is yes - 3 mills.
I would have answered this letter sooner, but I've been tied
up with the Public Land Law Review Commission for the past few days.
J. Fred Schneider
JFS:e
cc: Executive Committee, Attorney General, CPEC, Colorado Information
THOMAS A. RICHARDSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
HARVARD BUILDING
922% NINTH AVENUE
GREELEY. COLORADO
September 12, 1966
Mr. Fred Schneider
General Counsel
Colorado State Association of
County Commissioners
904 Majestic Building
Denver, Colorado
Dear Mr. Schneider:
Mr. Ed Dunbar, Chairman of
Commissioners, has asked me to writ
which have been a concern to
(1). Can
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for the welfare patients out of the County's
what alternative does the County have when the
he contract as they demand more moneythan. the
(4). May the County hire their own doctors such as hospital
interns to care for welfare patients?
(5). Is there a limitation on the Welfare mill levy?
Thank you for your immediate consideration in these matters.
Yours truly,
Thomas A. Richardson
County Attorney
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