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It’s a hard job to provide health care to Colorado’s rural residents when you consider 20 percent of the state’s population is spread across 80 percent of its land.
The advent of health reform, and the 500,000 Coloradans who will be newly insured, are leading many in the state to ask the next obvious questions: Where are these newly insured people going to seek medical care? And, just as important, who will meet this increased demand?
Colorado’s rural landscape ranges from the vast Eastern Plains to the soaring mountains of the Western Slope.
I was in college when I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
What can we expect as health reform moves people from the rolls of the uninsured to the insured?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an animated map demonstrating the rising rate of obesity in the United States over the past 25 years must be worth at least a million.
With nearly 800,000 uninsured Coloradans, historically high public health insurance caseloads and escalating health costs, the safety net plays a crucial role in the state’s health care system. This primer provides an overview and update of Colorado’s safety net.
As part of the 2011 Colorado Rural Health Conference, Jackie Colby spoke to attendees about results from CHI’s advanced practice nurse and physician assistant surveys.
CHI has updated its 2008 and 2009 estimates of uninsured children and adults in Colorado who qualify for Medicaid or Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+).
A lottery usually brings to mind images of swirling ping-pong balls and dollar figures ending in multiple zeros.