University of Colorado Health has now extended its reach from Southern Colorado to Laramie, Wyoming. The hospital group, which includes Memorial Hospital in the Springs, will now manage Ivinson Hospital in Laramie. Under the agreement, Ivinson, which traces its roots to 1917, will become an affiliate of UCHealth but will remain an independent [...]
Continue reading …Terry Buckner will be the new CEO of the Pikes Peak Regional Hospital and Surgery Center in Woodland Park. Buckner will replace Dolores Horvath, who retired earlier this year. Buckner is a native of Oklahoma and brings more than 20 years health care management experience to the new role. He previously worked at the Eastern [...]
Continue reading …The number of people in Colorado without dental insurance grew to 2.1 million in 2011, up from 1.8 million just two years earlier. Access to dental care is a growing problem in the state, according to a study by The Colorado Trust, a nonprofit health grants organization. the number of uninsured has grown 17 percent [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing reduced Medicaid expenses by $20 million with a new program and returned nearly $3 million to state and federal taxpayers. It’s the first year for the Accountable Care Collaborative program, designed to improve client health while lower health costs. The legislature passed the law in 2009 [...]
Continue reading …Pam McManus often wakes up in the middle of the night, trying to figure out new ways to get more people seen at Peak Vista Community Health Centers. The safety-net clinic has a waiting list of about 6,000 people — and that’s after McManus has whittled away at the 8,000 she inherited 18 months ago [...]
Continue reading …In an uncertain health care environment, industry experts are sure about one forecast: An aging population will impact services, providers and payers like never before. But exactly how much it will stress the industry — and in what ways — is still unknown, those same experts say. Health care groups already are struggling to create [...]
Continue reading …Jill Law had just been named the permanent executive director of El Paso County Public Health in June when the Waldo Canyon fire broke out, reducing hundreds of homes to ashes, killing two people and leaving thousands without electricity. Even though she was evacuated — as was the health department itself — Law managed to [...]
Continue reading …Most areas of the country have only a single health insurer, according to a report from the American Medical Association, and that means that the marketplace is less competitive than it should be. The report shows that the three top managed care plans in the United States have consolidated market concentration to the point there [...]
Continue reading …he Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act failed to solve one health care riddle: how to pay for long-term care for the rising tide of the nation’s aging population.
Continue reading …A Dallas-based provider of health care screenings for businesses in more than 20 states has indentified Colorado Springs as one of its first markets for expansion. Star Wellness is seeking to franchise the business as part of a larger plan designed to expand the company’s presence nationwide. One franchise is needed in the Springs to [...]
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