Colorado’s medical marijuana industry isn’t regulated closely enough – and the medical marijuana enforcement division is in need of serious overhaul. A highly critical audit from the state auditor found a lack of funding and planning contributed to problems at the Colorado Department of Revenue that led to lack of consistent enforcement, discipline and a [...]
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The Peak Vista Community Health Centers will move its Women’s Health Center into its new location at 225 S. Union Blvd this week. The clinic is currently located at 350 Printers Parkway, and will open in its new location March 27. The staff will continue to see patients during the moving process. The new clinic [...]
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Memorial Hospital is now the official hospital for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. The hospital is partnering with the Sky Sox to promote health, exercise and athletics, according to a press release about the partnership. Under this exclusive, three-year agreement, the two organizations will collaborate around healthy initiatives in the Pikes Peak Region. “The Sky [...]
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UnitedHealthcare is expanding in Colorado Springs once again, this time thanks to its federal contract to administer the Department of Defense’s Tricare program. About 230 people will be hired as part of the effort, and UnitedHealthcare is creating a new beneficiary and provider service center in the Springs as the primary telephone customer service center [...]
Continue reading …Kaiser Permanente members have rated the organization’s health plan highest in member satisfaction in Colorado for a sixth consecutive year, according to a new study released by J.D. Power and Associates. J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Member Health Plan Study is based on survey responses of 33,000 members in 136 commercial health plans throughout the [...]
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Nine people have been chosen to form the first board of directors for the Colorado Springs Health Foundation. The board is charged with creating the rules and procedures for the new foundation, which will use money and lease payments from the University of Colorado Health lease of Memorial Hospital. The mayor selected the board members [...]
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First Choice Emergency Room, a freestanding emergency room, opened today on Powers Boulevard. First Choice Emergency Room operates 17 facilities in the U.S. The company has nine locations in the Houston area, five in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, two in the Austin area and now one in Colorado Springs, at 2770 Powers Blvd. which is [...]
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University of Colorado Health is pouring millions into Memorial Hospital — capital projects, new hires, new technology. It’s a necessary expense, leaders say, because they have plans for the local hospital system to become the southern flagship as UCH pushes into New Mexico and Kansas. That’s good news for Colorado Springs as the money poured [...]
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Colorado has won a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant to continue its health care innovation plan. The $2 million grant is a pre-testing award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and builds on the state’s proposal to integrate behavioral health and clinical health care. The grant is paid for through [...]
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The St. Francis Medical Center of the future could become a dominant presence in northern Colorado Springs, even replacing Penrose Hospital as the main campus for Centura Health in the city. Unexpected growth at St. Francis, on the southeast side of the Powers Boulevard and Woodmen Road interchange, and demand for new services have led [...]
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