Our Work
And we’re off! It’s been a busy first two weeks of the legislative session, full of speeches and ceremony and yes, plenty of new bills. The 120-day session is too quick for a marathon, too long for a sprint — more like a fast-paced racewalk with some pushing and shoving along the way. (There are 1,275 days until the next Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Not that we’re counting.)
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore marijuana in Colorado’s high schools using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
The moment has arrived. At 10 a.m. Colorado time, Donald J. Trump became the 45th president of the United States.
Trump has already ushered in a change in tone to the White House. But those of us who work in health policy are still waiting to see the substance of his proposals for remaking the nation’s health system.
Trump began his inaugural speech by taking a dark view of President Obama’s eight-year presidency and the state of the country as a whole.
Governor John Hickenlooper delivered a State of the State address this morning that was heavy on health policy — starting with a call to modify the Hospital Provider Fee to control costs and help rural hospitals and clinics.
We publish our annual legislative forecast is full of information on the coming debates, from the detailed, wonky policy choices about issues such as prescription drug costs and freestanding emergency departments to the big-league national fights that will reverberate here in Colorado.
Regional Health Connectors (RHCs) are a new workforce dedicated to improving the coordination of local services to advance health.
CHI’s ninth Hot Issues in Health Care conference wrapped up last week, and since then we’ve been collecting feedback and processing our own reactions. This year’s event — our largest ever! — drew more than 250 attendees
Has Colorado improved its grade point average when it comes to health? This annual report card from the Colorado Health Foundation, created in partnership with CHI, provides a decade’s worth of annual updates related to the state’s progress on 38 key health indicators. Learn where Colorado has made headway. And discover where it still needs to improve.
This Data Spotlight digs deep into one slice of the data — health in rural Colorado.