The State of Colorado’s Health Care Safety Net: Safety Net Indicators and Monitoring (SNIMS) 2009 Progress Report

Recognizing the importance of Colorado’s safety net and the challenges it has faced historically, The Colorado Health Foundation provided a two-year grant to the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) in 2005 to establish a Safety Net Indicators and Monitoring System (SNIMS) for Colorado. With this support, CHI has developed a data-driven reporting system that identifies, describes and monitors Colorado’s health care safety net providers and the populations they serve annually.

Area Resource File
The Area Resource File (ARF) is collection of national and county-level health data from more than 50 sources. The ARF database contains statistics on the following categories of health resources: health professions, health training programs, health facilities, utilization and expenditures. It also contains geographic codes and descriptors and information on economic activity and socioeconomic and enviromental characteristics.