Just providing insurance in rural communities doesn’t completely fix the health care problem. You still need providers to offer the care, as this AP story illustrates: FREEPORT, Fla. — In this rural part of the Panhandle, Christopher Mitchell finds few takers when he delivers...
How many Coloradans are going without health insurance? How many have trouble getting an appointment to see a doctor, even with insurance? Where to Coloradans get their health care? How do they use that care? The important questions are answered and explained in the latest report from...
The Blue Guide Colorado was released this week. It is designed to help individuals and families, health care providers, and community organizations locate the healthcare options and resources that are available for uninsured and underinsured Coloradans. The online guide provides...
There’s nothing simple about the state of health care in America, and many people have already made up their minds about whom to blame for it being broken and how to fix it. But as important, ongoing health care reform continues, doctors and health care practitioners continue to...
The Denver Post today wrote a blog post about how telemedicine is helping share the expertise of neonatal specialists in the city into critical-care situations at 33 remote hospitals in Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming. “Practicing rural medicine has a lot of nuances to it that you...
Denver Post health care reporter Michael Booth recently reported on how small communities across Colorado are struggling to maintain services. “How do we keep some level of care, even if it’s just stabilizing care, in these very small communities?” Randy...
As part of the upcoming Safety Net Clinic Week (Aug. 19 – 23), here is a fact sheet on Colorado’s community safety net clinics and rural health clinics: Who We Serve Colorado’s Community Safety Net Clinics (CSNC) and federally certified Rural Health Clinics (RHC) include...
Jefferson County is offering a great resource guide on health care access for its residents. Resources include: If you are pregnant and need immediate prenatal care, please call 303-232-6301 for Presumptive Eligibility. This program, based on eligibility, can get you the care you need...
The facts are staggering. While 20 percent of Americans live in rural areas, only 9 percent of the nation’s physicians practice there. And in Colorado, the story is more disturbing. Consider the prostate cancer patient who needed to undergo radiation treatment, yet the closest...