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The safe reopening of schools is a critical step in promoting children’s health and well-being, and metro Denver’s school leaders have new guidance for how to safely approach this challenge. The Metro Denver Partnership for Health (MDPH) today released COVID-19 Strategies for Schools, an evidence-informed guide for the region’s school districts as they plan to reopen.
“The fear would be that any financial pressure on hospitals could have access implications for patients, particularly in a rural area,” Spencer Budd told the Denver Post.
More than 500,000 Coloradans are projected to join Medicaid by the end of 2020 due to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Colorado Health Institute is working with the Metro Denver Partnership for Health to identify and inform strategies and action plans for how to mitigate increased spread of the novel coronavirus. We have produced several guidance documents on testing, containment, and school openings that can be found on the MDPH web page on the CHI website.
“One change includes where telemedicine can be offered. Physicians can offer services from their home, if they’re self-isolating. And then there’s also some safety net clinics that can offer telemedicine when they couldn’t before,” said CHI's Jeff Bontrager told Denver7 News.
The challenges of maintaining mental health are more apparent than ever, with millions of Americans out of work and millions more staying as isolated as we can. Those problems can seem unsolvable. But they can be addressed if we know where to start, CHI's Emily Johnson writes in an op-ed.
“The idea that hospitals and doctors are falsely inflating COVID numbers and even putting patients on ventilators to drive up their payments is not just ridiculous, but it’s insulting to the doctors who are putting their own lives at risk," CHI's Joe Hanel told The Denver Post.
A new resource launched by the Colorado Health Institute, in partnership with The Colorado Health Foundation, offers a new lens on how these factors influence mental health and how they play out in different Colorado communities.
Joe Hanel
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