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...
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...
First Hand: Colorado Rural Health Care Challenges
Shantel Tubbs, clinical manager at Pediatric Associates in Montrose, discusses health care access challenges in her community. The clinic serves most of the mountain communities in the area. She knows first-hand how hard it is to get quality care in rural, mountain communities....
December 10, 2014
Physician Departure Widens Buena Vista Health Care Gap
The outlook for primary medical care in Buena Vista is changing once again, reports the Mountain Mail. The recent departure of Dr. Dana Greene from the Buena Vista Health Center left the clinic without a single family practice doctor on staff, and it could be months before a new...
October 20, 2014
Health Care Lingo Confuses Access Issues
It’s fall, which means many Coloradoans will start getting notices about their company’s open enrollment period or Connect for Health Colorado. Some of the notices will say something like, “Sign up for health care before the deadline,” or “Don’t forget to review your...
Safety Net Clinics Are Essential for 300,000 Coloradans
Public officials and community leaders, including those from Governor Hickenlooper’s staff, are getting a firsthand look this week at Colorado’s community safety net health care clinics, which provide quality health care services to hundreds of thousands of low income, vulnerable,...
Safety Net Clinic Week Highlights Health Centers Around Colorado
To acknowledge, support and advocate for Colorado’s health care safety nets, in partnership with ClinicNET and the Colorado Rural Health Center, Health Care Aware Colorado participating in the 5th annual Colorado Safety Net Clinic Week from Aug. 18 – 22. Every year,...
SNAC-Time Means Understanding Access to Care for Coloradans
A year ago, the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) – the nonpartisan health research and data analysis organization – launched an innovative program designed to discuss key health care access issues. These conversations are part of a series of “learning laboratories” put...
May 29, 2014
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