Our Work
A million people. That’s almost one of every five people who live in Colorado. It’s enough to fill Sports Authority Field 13 times and Coors Field almost 20 times. It’s the combined populations of Denver and Aurora. And it’s the number of Coloradans who are now enrolled in Medicaid.
We’ll be heading to Fort Collins in September to present our latest research on health disparities at the annual Public Health in the Rockies Conference.
Colorado ranks third among the states for high school students who exercise vigorously.
A Colorado Health Institute brief –When Insurance Is Not Enough: How Underinsurance Impacts Health and Finances - released today explains underinsurance and why it matters for Coloradans.
We continue to see a lot of interest in our annual Legislation in Review report, which we released last week. The report summarized the trends we saw in health legislation from the 2014 session.
Since the legislative session ended May 7, the Colorado Health Institute has been hard at work analyzing the key health policy trends of 2014.
Experts across the country are focusing on how to make health care a better experience for patients, including using new technology, as part of efforts to reach the Triple Aim of better care and better health outcomes at lower costs.
Hospitals tend to be bellwethers of health care trends. So we applaud the Colorado Hospital Association for issuing a new analysis looking at hospital charges since January 1, when major provisions of the Affordable Care Act kicked in.
We reflected on our work so far this year and reenergized for the coming months during a staff retreat on Monday. Staff members presented TED talks – or CHED talks, as CEO Michele Lueck called them, combining CHI and TED - on everything from market trends to health disparities to how chalk art relates to health care.
It's the race to the finish line for Colorado as it writes an application for a multi-million dollar State Innovation Model grant.