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As the clock ticks toward launch of Colorado’s new insurance marketplace, leaders across the state are grappling with plenty of unanswered questions.
A mountain hike just feels like Colorado, and it didn’t take long to decide on a theme for our new report: Reaching Our Peak: Creating a Healthier Colorado. We examine policies and programs gaining momentum in Colorado and across the nation within the health care system and beyond – schools, communities, the workplace, and where we age – because the trail to better health most often begins outside a health provider’s office.
An ambitious new initiative from Rocky Mountain Health Plans and a number of partners aims to redefine how health care is provided and paid for in Medicaid, beginning with a pilot project on the Western Slope. We received a briefing on the program at a recent learning lab for safety net providers hosted by the Colorado Health Institute.
According to the latest Colorado Health Market Review, published by consultant Allan Baumgarten, hospitals in the metro Denver area had pre-tax net income of 12.3 percent of net patient revenue in 2011. HealthOne/HCA led the pack with a 22.9 percent margin, followed by Exempla at 6.8 percent and Centura at 5.6 percent.
My summer practicum at CHI represents the best of two worlds for me: I get to work on projects that will benefit the state that I love while focusing on topics that I am passionate about, long-term care and elder abuse.
Health care is local, the old saying goes. While national, state and market trends impact health and health care delivery, local communities are where theory and policy meet practice and implementation. It’s with this idea in mind that CHI has embarked on what we are calling our “Adopt a Health Region” initiative this year.
Wednesday was a big day for Colorado’s health care community, particularly those who are working to make our health care system work better. Nearly 150 “movers and shakers” came together to kick off work on a health care innovation plan for Colorado.
Tomorrow, Colorado will officially launch our work on the State Innovation Model (SIM) Pre-Testing Award. Colorado received this nearly $2 million award to improve and strengthen our State Health Care Innovation Plan.
CHI has released an update to our safety net clinic resources: an updated database of Colorado's safety net clinics, and two maps showing where they are located throughout the state. This blog post profiles one of the newer organizations that make up Colorado's health care safety net - Head2Toe Healthcare in Aurora.
How can public health support implementation of the Affordable Care Act? Examples, strategies and priorities were discussed at a symposium organized by the Center for Public Health Practice.