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...
Rural Hospitals Closing Doors, Hampering Care
Guest commentary in the The Denver Post, “Rural Hospital Closures are a Clear Danger“: Almost 50 rural hospitals have closed their doors since the beginning of 2010, with over half of those closures occurring in the past two years alone, leaving more Americans to trek long...
January 30, 2015
First Hand: Rural Pediatrician Discusses Health Care Access
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....
December 16, 2014
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
Telemedicine in Colorado: Offering Better Access to Health Care
We’ve all seen the sci-fi episodes or tech company commercials: the ones where a child is sick and the doctor beams into the kid’s bedroom and talks to him, then runs some sort of laser across his tummy to diagnose his illness. Telemedicine is the use of technology to engage...
December 03, 2014
Providing Care in a Rural Mountain Town
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...
October 23, 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
School Based Health Care Across Colorado
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...
September 18, 2014
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,...
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