Rural Colorado Community Doctors Need To Be Engaged
Attracting and retaining doctors to practice medicine in rural communities is an issue across the U.S., and particularly in Colorado. According to the Colorado Health Institute, there are nine regions across the state with significantly inadequate access to primary care providers...
July 01, 2015
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Inspiring Physicians About Patient Safety At Colorado Conference
The annual Telluride Patient Safety conference is wrapping up for 2015, but the lessons learned will inspire future physicians who attended as they move forward. COPIC has been the sponsor of the conference for the past 4 years. Learn more about the conference in this video: Discover...
June 16, 2015
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...
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...
Patient Safety Awareness in Colorado
Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual education and awareness campaign for health care safety led by National Patient Safety Foundation. Each year, health care organizations around Colorado take part in the event by prominently displaying the NPSF campaign logo and promotional...
Report: Filling the Dental Gap in Rural Colorado
Colorado reached a historic milestone in 2014 when it began offering dental insurance to each of the state’s 1.1 million Medicaid clients. This decision places Colorado among the nation’s leaders when it comes to oral health coverage for those with the lowest incomes. This...
February 28, 2015
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