Help Wanted: Colorado Rural Health Care Professional
Fairplay, Colorado Town Administrator Tina Darrah talks about the challenges of recruiting rural health care professionals and the greater impact a lack of healthcare access has on the community. Despite recently building a modern health care clinic, Fairplay has been struggling to...
Health Care Access Solutions in Rural Colorado
Colorado’s rural and frontier counties face important health care access and coverage issues, as well as health care professional shortages. Sara Leahy, Workforce and Clinic Program Manager at Colorado Rural Health Care Center, discusses some of potential ways to increase the number...
Health Care Cost Comparisons: Can Colorado’s Rural Communities Rely On It?
The Colorado All Payer Claims Database is a brilliant tool: a database that shows the side-by-side average cost of health procedures at different hospitals, and lets consumers (i.e. patients) become educated on the cost of their care and make choices based on price. It’s like...
Can Rural Hospitals in Colorado Stand Alone?
Recently, at the annual Forum sponsored by the Colorado Rural Health Center, we were fortunate to hear from Michael King, attorney and Chair of Transactional Health Care Group at the law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. King had a thought-provoking and startling assertion on...
Offering Health Care Access for Aurora and Urban Communities
Doctors can treat a patient’s physical problems, but when it comes to what ails many patients, money, the cure is elusive. Even if the only help a patient needs is a bus pass, or stable housing or a few job skills — there’s no prescription to make it happen, even though those...
Spotlight on Hispanic Health In Colorado
Colorado’s Hispanic community faces unique and substantial barriers to achieving good health, according to the Data Spotlight from the latest Colorado Health Report Card. The new report, a collaboration between the Colorado Health Institute and the Colorado Health Foundation as...
Community Safety Net Health Clinics in Colorado
Here is a list of current ClinicNET Community Safety Net Clinics: ACS Community Lift Medical Services Denver, CO Ardas Family Medicine Denver, CO Carin’ Clinic Arvada, CO Caritas Internal Medicine Clinic Denver, CO Christ Clinic Fort Collins, CO Clínica Colorado Westminster, CO...
Inside Colorado’s Safety Net Health Care Centers
Colorado’s safety net health care clinics help bridge the gap for communities across the state. Patients offer their first-hand account on how they rely on the clinics and their health care professionals. Colorado’s Community Safety Net Clinics (CSNCs) and federally...
Rural Colorado: Some Facts About Health Disparities
Colorado faces many obstacles to health in the vast rural parts of the state. The Colorado Rural Health Center manages the iCARE program (Improving Communication and Readmission), designed to build off of the success of Colorado’s Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) by aiding in...
What’s Different about Rural Health Care in Colorado?
The obstacles faced by health care providers and patients in rural areas are vastly different than those in urban areas. Rural Americans face a unique combination of factors that create disparities in health care not found in urban areas. Economic factors, cultural and social...
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