Our Work
More health care clinics are making connections to other groups that are working to improve health in their communities.
One in 5 LGB Coloradans said they were judged or treated unfairly by someone working in the health care system.
CHI research puts spotlight on Colorado for national report comparing states’ marketplaces
But it’s still not easy to figure out what you’ll pay for care.
Chef Boyardee would be proud.
Colorado’s Medicaid program — known as Health First Colorado — is an alphabet soup of acronyms: HCPF, ACC, PMPM, RCCO, BHO, FFS, CMHCs, APM, PIAC. And that’s just Medicaid. Don’t forget CHP+, LTSS and CICP.*
Yesterday, July 1, 2018, a new acronym officially entered our lexicon. Health First Colorado launched the Regional Accountable Entities, or RAEs, as part of the next chapter in Colorado’s Medicaid program.
One of the most important health care decisions we make in our lifetimes is our last. We can choose to live out our final days at home or in a hospital. We can prioritize medical interventions that ease suffering rather than more aggressive forms of care.
It’s our choice, and a very personal one. But too often, end-of-life medical wishes go unheeded because people don’t make a plan.
This plan is called an advance directive. Advance directives convey health care preferences in case a patient is cognitively or physically unable to make decisions.
It's time for the next chapter in my story of a career dedicated to improving health.
Solutions to prescription drug prices eluded legislators in 2018.
The 2018 legislative session was surprisingly productive given split-party control, a looming election and various controversies about sexual harassment. We analyze what happened in CHI’s annual wrap-up report, Legislation in Review, published today.Legislators had no shortage of ideas. As a group, they introduced 721 bills — the most in nearly 15 years. And despite the politics, they voted in bipartisan fashion to pass 432 of them for a success rate of 60 percent.
Last year, 17,000 Coloradans received behavioral health services that they wouldn’t have otherwise. That’s thanks to $3.9 million from the Colorado Health Access Fund, administered by The Denver Foundation.