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CHI’s President and CEO, Michele Lueck, argues in a Colorado Sun op-ed that the coronavirus failures that led us to this point began years ago.

"In 2019, 15.3% of Coloradans reported poor mental health, compared with 11.8% in 2017, according to a survey by the Colorado Health Institute."

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.