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Another legislative session is in the history books. It’s going to be a short entry. Maybe a sentence or two, especially when it comes to health policy.
Here at CHI, we’ve been looking across the state to learn how some of our most innovative practices are going about integrating primary care and behavioral health. The result of this analysis is a paper we are releasing today.
Colorado legislators passed laws on two important marijuana issues in the final days of the 2015 session.
Between national conferences, in-state site visits and stakeholder meetings, the Colorado Health Institute staff will be on the road this week and next.
A new report, Assessing the Need for School-Based Health Center Services in Colorado, 2015, identifies which schools and school districts have high needs for an SBHC in order to help inform decisions around placement of new SBHCs.
Instead of winding down slowly, the 2015 legislative session was more of a mad dash to the finish. Several longtime staffers and lobbyists said that they could not remember a session with more bills to be decided in the final days. CHI was watching a few of the bills caught up in the action.
With momentum in the state around behavioral health, CHI has decided to provide a snapshot of Colorado’s behavioral health both on the state level and for each of Colorado’s 21 health statistics regions. Our newest data workbook, Behavioral Health Data in Colorado, does just that.
Colorado’s Hispanic community faces unique and substantial barriers to achieving good health, according to data from the latest Colorado Health Report Card Data Spotlight.
The last hours of the legislative session are ticking away as lawmakers scramble to vote on dozens of bills that remain on the calendar. Policy analyst Allie Morgan is watching and will write a blog detailing the last-minute developments.
Congress has passed a bipartisan health care law. Yes, you read that correctly. And it has consequences for thousands of Colorado kids.