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A new report, Assessing the Need for School-Based Health Center Services in Colorado, 2015, identifies which schools and school districts have high needs for an SBHC in order to help inform decisions around placement of new SBHCs.
More than 576,000 Coloradans are providing care on an unpaid basis for aging or disabled loved ones, providing an estimated $6.6 billion a year worth of care. But their numbers are dwindling.
Instead of winding down slowly, the 2015 legislative session was more of a mad dash to the finish. Several longtime staffers and lobbyists said that they could not remember a session with more bills to be decided in the final days. CHI was watching a few of the bills caught up in the action.
With momentum in the state around behavioral health, CHI has decided to provide a snapshot of Colorado’s behavioral health both on the state level and for each of Colorado’s 21 health statistics regions. Our newest data workbook, Behavioral Health Data in Colorado, does just that.
Colorado’s Hispanic community faces unique and substantial barriers to achieving good health, according to data from the latest Colorado Health Report Card Data Spotlight.
The last hours of the legislative session are ticking away as lawmakers scramble to vote on dozens of bills that remain on the calendar. Policy analyst Allie Morgan is watching and will write a blog detailing the last-minute developments.
Congress has passed a bipartisan health care law. Yes, you read that correctly. And it has consequences for thousands of Colorado kids.
Tense discussions on the budget have marked the 2015 legislative session from Day One, when Senate President Bill Cadman (R) chose to focus his chamber’s first introduced bill on TABOR refunds.
Call me a geography geek or an atlas addict: I’ve always been a fan of maps. It follows, then, that a recent announcement by the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) would have me scuttling to my bulletin board and unpinning two of my favorites.
How many information requests from the public did the Colorado Health Institute answer in 2014? The answers to these questions and more are revealed in our 2014 annual report, which we posted on our website today.