Our Work
It’d be nice to have a time-turner right about now. Legislators are working overtime to get through still undecided bills, and of all the magical things from Harry Potter’s universe, a pendant to increase the number of work hours in a day might sound the most appealing.
It was 2006 and a young health policy analyst who had just started working at the Colorado Health Institute helped to launch an ambitious new project — collecting and analyzing data about school-based health centers and other parts of the health care safety net.
The Colorado Health Foundation and the Colorado Health Institute today released a new Colorado Health Report Card Data Spotlight on mental health.
Check our CHI's latest research, presentation line-up and legislative monitoring work for this first week of May.
This week’s big news: The proposal to change the Hospital Provider Fee to an enterprise fund has passed the House. But its future depends on which Senate committee gets to hear it first. That will be determined by Senate President Bill Cadman (R), who has opposed converting the fee.
A new report from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership finds Colorado tied for fourth among the states for supporting walking, bicycling, active kids and active communities.
The team here at the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) is busy with work that we hope will contribute to a healthier world, starting with a new survey of health care providers.
Thirteen weekdays (and three more CHI blogs) remain in this legislative session. Nearly 650 bills have been introduced, and at last count, fewer than 100 have crossed the finish line and received a signature from Governor Hickenlooper.
When the new Colorado Springs Health Foundation invited us to speak with its board members about health care issues in its region, we were eager to pull together data and analysis. But first, we wanted to learn more about the foundation. Its executive director, Cari Davis, spoke with us about this new addition to the Front Range philanthropic community.
Congratulations to Ethiopia’s Lemi Berhanu Hayle and Atsede Baysa for winning the elite men’s and women’s divisions of the Boston Marathon today. They each finished in less than 2 ½ hours. Talk about a fast clip. Inspired by all of the Boston Marathon runners, the Colorado Health Institute is keeping a fast pace in the office this week as well. We have presentations, reports and blogs galore.