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...
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...
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...
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...
Dr. Greg Suchon from Pediatric Associates in Montrose discussed the difficulties of getting care as a result of the health care coverage expansion. Rural communities are seeing more and more patients, but there is not an increase in the number of health care professionals, he says....
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....
By most accounts Jason Wallace of Pagosa Springs, Colorado is leading the quintessential Colorado life. Snowboarding, hiking and mountain biking are regular activities for him, his wife and their two young daughters. Their mountain town has a local farmers market, a 4th of July...
With cold and flu season in full swing, we wanted to call out school-based health care as an effective strategy for reaching underserved students in communities across Colorado. Studies show school-based health care positively impacts students in many areas including: Reduced...
There is a shortage of physicians serving #rural #Colorado . Meet Dr. Greg Suchon, a pediatrician on the Western Slope who’s helping fill that gap for children in Montrose, Colorado. While it’s not an easy job, Dr. Suchon says he wouldn’t trade his experiences for...
There’s not much Dr. Lisa Zwerdlinger isn’t involved in as the only physician in Leadville, Colorado. She built the town’s largest medical office building, is the medical advisor to the local public school district as well as Colorado Mountain College and Outward Bound, and she...