March, 2014 | Health Care Aware Colorado
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Bringing Doctors to Rural Colorado

Colorado Public Radio examines how Coloradans living in rural towns are facing a serious shortage of doctors and while proposed legislation aims to reverse the trend, smaller communities continue to struggle to recruit and retain medical professionals. The picture is bleak in many...

Health Care Reform From A Personal Perspective

A new project, HealthIsLocal.org, from the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved (CCMU), has started to collect health reform experiences from four Colorado communities, including Summit County. Health is Local includes interviews from local health care leaders, videos,...

Health Care Gap in Rural and Urban Communities: Part 2

In the second part of our video series with Colorado State Rep. Dominick Moreno, District 32, he barriers to providing health care to rural and urban communities. While Dr. Douglas Fairbairn, medical director at Inner Health Center, discusses difficulties health care professionals...