Tag: Colorado

November 2, 2022

State employees in Colorado are being asked to be better consumers when shopping for health care services. And if they choose lower-cost and higher-quality providers, they could get a check in the mail for a portion of the savings. It’s […]

October 14, 2022

Colorado could become the second state after Oregon to allow the use of certain psychedelic substances that are illegal under federal law. But while Oregon voters in 2020 approved the supervised use of psychedelic mushrooms, the citizen initiative on the […]

May 20, 2022

Colorado is the latest state to pass some form of legislation addressing nurse staffing in light of the pandemic. New York passed a staffing law last summer that stipulates hospitals form clinical staffing committees that include front-line nurses and other […]

March 29, 2022

With the Supreme Court expected to overturn or severely weaken its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, clinics in Colorado are preparing for an increase in the number of out-of-state residents seeking abortions, and lawmakers are cementing abortion access protections in […]

March 28, 2022

Michael Keasling of Lakewood, Colorado, was an electrician who loved big trucks, fast cars, and Harley-Davidsons. He’d struggled with diabetes since he was a teenager, needing a kidney transplant from his sister to stay alive. He was already quite sick […]

December 22, 2015

A bigger emergency department won’t be better unless delivery of care transforms along with the facility expansion, according to the the head of the University of Colorado Hospital emergency department. “Instead of being small, crowded and dysfunctional, many EDs are […]