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New Survey Highlights Health Care Access In Colorado

How many Coloradans are going without health insurance? How many have trouble getting an appointment to see a doctor, even with insurance? Where to Coloradans get their health care? How do they use that care? The important questions are answered and explained in the latest report from...

Inside Colorado’s Safety Net Clinics

Colorado’s safety net clinics help bride the gap for communities across the state. Patients in this video offer their first-hand account about how they rely on the clinics and their health care professionals. Also, clinic administrators offer their take on the challenges keeping...

Economic Impact of Colorado’s Community Health Centers

It’s Primary Care Week and to demonstrate the impact, Colorado Community Health Network released a new analysis of the economic impact of Community Health Centers on our state. Some highlights: Colorado’s 18 CHCs strengthened Colorado’s economy by contributing $735 million...

The Blue Guide: A Resource for Colorado’s Uninsured

The Blue Guide Colorado was released this week. It is designed to help individuals and families, health care providers, and community organizations locate the healthcare options and resources that are available for uninsured and underinsured Coloradans. The online guide provides...

Colorado Safety Net Clinic Providers Speak Out

Norma Portnoy of Community Health Services and Dawn Fetzko of the Colorado Primary Care Clinic discuss the important role of Colorado and Denver’s safety net clinics. Yet dramatically increased demand for health services, rising costs, shrinking payments and a shortage of health...

ClinicNet’s Sharon Adams On Providing Care For Those Without Insurance

There’s nothing simple about the state of health care in America, and many people have already made up their minds about whom to blame for it being broken and how to fix it. But as important, ongoing health care reform continues, doctors and health care practitioners continue to...

Rural Doctors Get Helping Hand From Telemedicine

The Denver Post today wrote a blog post about how telemedicine is helping share the expertise of neonatal specialists in the city into critical-care situations at 33 remote hospitals in Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming. “Practicing rural medicine has a lot of nuances to it that you...

Denver Post Article On Rural Health Care Bleeding Money

Denver Post health care reporter Michael Booth recently reported on how small communities across Colorado are struggling to maintain services. “How do we keep some level of care, even if it’s just stabilizing care, in these very small communities?”  Randy...

Some Facts About Safety Net Clinics

As part of the upcoming Safety Net Clinic Week (Aug. 19 – 23), here is a fact sheet on Colorado’s community safety net clinics and rural health clinics: Who We Serve Colorado’s Community Safety Net Clinics (CSNC) and federally certified Rural Health Clinics (RHC) include...