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What happened to Centura Health

WEBA news release earlier this month announced that the Centura name, logo and brand “will be retired over the next year.”. The reason for its demise is due to the …

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Colorado will provide free education to students across health …

WEBA state effort to ease Colorado’s dire shortage of health care workers will offer tuition-free training for several thousand students, providing a much-needed boost to hospitals and clinics. The Care Forward Colorado Program will invest $26 million of federal COVID stimulus funding into the program for two years, guaranteeing free schooling

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New Colorado health insurance subsidies open as search for …

WEBThe number of Coloradans eligible for public health insurance aid but not actually enrolled in a program was rising quickly before the pandemic hit last year, though social service officials said expanded eligibility launching Thursday could help reverse the trend. The American Rescue Plan signed in March keeps enrollment in the state health …

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UCHealth, Intermountain Healthcare forming Colorado …

WEB3:54 AM MDT on Apr 12, 2024. Cancro is UCHealth’s chief strategy officer and he also serves as the president of an already-existing UCHealth provider network called …

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Hospital merger puts Colorado's SCL Health under …

WEBSCL Health, the Colorado-based operator of eight not-for-profit hospitals with 16,000 employees, will merge into much larger and secular Intermountain …

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New Colorado medical college aimed at easing health …

WEBThe state would spend about $128 million to cover construction costs for the new medical college. “This is going to make a huge impact on having a sustainable …

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Why it’s so tough to reduce unnecessary medical care

WEBOf the $3 trillion spent each year on health care in the U.S., 10% to 30% consists of this low-value care, according to multiple estimates. “There’s a culture of …

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Lutheran Medical Center moving to Clear Creek Crossing …

WEBSCL Health will build a $650 million replacement hospital 3.5 miles west of the current Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge and move the entire campus there …

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Colorado issues public health order as syphilis cases …

WEBTo combat this rise in syphilis cases among infants, the state Health Department on Thursday issued a public health order requiring medical providers to …

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Why a big showdown over the Colorado Option didn't happen

WEBThe showdown has to do with the Colorado Option, the Polis-backed, government-designed health insurance plan that private companies operating in the state are required to sell. Colorado Option plans are required to be sold at lower prices — for next year’s plans, those prices are supposed to be 10% below a company’s 2021 rates.

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How to fight a medical bill, according to the experts in …

WEB2:45 AM MDT on Apr 13, 2024. According to the most recent Colorado Health Access Survey, more than 1 in 10 Coloradans reported struggling to pay medical …

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Why did Centura Health break up

WEBA stretcher is wheeled into Centura St. Mary-Corwin Hospital in Pueblo, Colorado, on July 14, 2023. (Parker Seibold for KFF Health News) The breakup of …

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My family’s $2,000 popsicle and why health care costs so …

WEBBy almost any measure, health care is becoming more expensive, in some cases by a lot. For instance, payments by patients and health insurers in Colorado for …

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New Centennial Hospital fills southeast Denver gap, while other …

WEBNew hospitals get built where business studies show more high-income families and generous employer insurance, and fewer uninsured or patients with …

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How a Denver health clinic is trying to stop the spread of HIV

WEBA map marks nearly two dozen areas around the Denver metro where Vivent clients have found housing. Nonprofit Vivent Health is an HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment clinic that has a 95% viral suppression rate for people who have been housed for at least three months.

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Colorado settles lawsuit over lack of children's mental health care

WEBThe three plaintiffs should have received intensive mental health services in their communities — an entitlement under federal law for children on Medicaid …

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Harm reduction van aims to stem overdoses in Arapahoe County

WEBA new mobile harm reduction service is bringing overdose prevention to the streets of Arapahoe County to help people who use opioids and other drugs. The …

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What happens when a Colorado hospital releases a patient …

WEBSome of them will move upstairs, into the lofts that are the coalition’s 19th supportive housing project in the past 30 years. Along with the new space, the coalition …

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Colorado partnership works to reduce Black maternal mortality

WEBAt Children’s Colorado Health Pavilion, Dr. Marcy Mendenhall, left, Jeannie Dixon, right, and Kim Brewer, meet at a debriefing session, on Dec. 14, 2023 in Aurora. …

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Colorado is planning a shift to an “endemic response” to COVID

WEBAs Colorado shifts toward an endemic response to COVID-19, the state health department is looking to the private sector for help in rethinking strategies to deal with the presence of the virus forever, and appears to be trying to shed its central role in limiting its spread in the process.. The Colorado Department of Public Health and …

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Colorado psychiatric hospital is at risk of closing within 30 days

WEBWest Springs is working with Rocky Mountain Health Plans to negotiate a new contract that could help stabilize the hospital, Sheehan said. Colorado Medicaid …

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Leadville's hospital is thriving after nearly closing 7 years ago

WEBThe exam rooms from inside the new St. Vincent Health hospital on September 8, 2021, in Leadville, Colorado. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun) When the only hospital in Leadville started to close down seven years ago, officials in the highest-altitude city in the country worried they would lose their “heart and soul.”.

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New report shows need for "culturally responsive care" in Colorado

WEBNearly 400,000 Coloradans said they were looking for culturally responsive care to respond to their language, sexual orientation, culture, disability or trauma needs, …

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Rate of Coloradans with health insurance held steady despite …

WEBSignificantly fewer Coloradans said they struggled to pay medical bills — 11.3% in 2021, compared with 18.1% in 2019. But Black and Hispanic Coloradans were more than twice as likely to report struggling to pay medical bills. Michele Lueck, the Colorado Health Institute’s president and CEO, said the survey shows the diverse …

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Colorado locked up middle-aged women for “lunacy,” old jail …

WEBA Jefferson County jailhouse ledger from 1878-1929 lists 74 women booked for “lunacy” or “insanity,” many of them put on a train to the Pueblo asylum. Programs …

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How research in Denver helped lead to a new drug for food allergies

WEBRoughly 35 years later, National Jewish researchers led by Dr. Donald Leung studied the use of an anti-IgE drug to treat peanut allergies. The results of the …

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