El Paso County launched a prescription discount program today that is available to its residents regardless of age, income or existing health coverage. The program is sponsored by the National Association of Counties, which has negotiated a high-volume discount with Caremark, which gets the medicine from the pharmaceutical companies. The average savings is 23 percent. El Paso [...]
Continue reading …El Paso County’s ambulance service can now track patterns of illness and crime on calls it responds to. American Medical Response launched the tracking program, called FirstWatch, earlier this year – and is using it to track calls with complaints of flu-like symptoms, said Laura Saenz, communications center manager for AMR. So far, no patterns [...]
Continue reading …Three agents from the Criminal Investigation Section of Colorado Department of Revenue were at the El Paso County budget department on Thursday morning seeking information about former County Commissioner Douglas Bruce.
According to an e-mail written by Nicola Sapp, the county’s financial services director, the agents asked about Bruce’s “charitable” donations and “any meetings that were held related to that topic. … They requested copies of his W-2 and W-4 (forms) …”
Continue reading …During April, El Paso County recorded 539 foreclosure starts — Notices of Election and Demand — according to Public Trustee Tom Mowle. “This is probably the highest monthly total ever recorded in this county, breaking last March’s record total of 488 by 10 percent,” he said in a statement issued today, adding that the department doesn’t have monthly [...]
Continue reading …The American Lung Association has given El Paso County an F for its ground level ozone and an A for its air-particulate pollution levels. The grades are part of the association’s annual State of the Air report. Ground level ozone is formed when nitrogen oxides combine with volatile organic compounds in the presence of heat [...]
Continue reading …In response to legislation set to take effect July 1, the El Paso County Board of County Commissioners will add four members to the governing board of the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment. Senate Bill 08-194, the Public Health Revitalization Act that was passed last year, requires the county to expand the [...]
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