The Palisades Senior Living received an award from the national Association of Home Builders for its integration of technology and wellness programs for residence.
The Palisades, which offers both independent living and assisted living to its residents, won the award along with their partner, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Every year, the NAHB conducts [...] [...]
The nation’s health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government number crunchers estimate in a report released Thursday.
How much is that? Including government and private money, health care spending in 2020 will average $13,710 for every man, woman and child, [...] [...]
State Sen. Rollie Heath says schools need more help than an initiative to raise taxes can offer.
Heath says he hopes an initiative he is proposing would at least shore up some funding for public schools and higher education while deeper changes to education are decided, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
The initiative would raise [...] [...]
Colorado Springs has been ranked by Men’s Health magazine and Gallup as one of the fittest, healthiest cities in the country.
The problem? The statistics don’t always support the hype.
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report ranks El Paso County nowhere near the top of the state’s healthiest regions. Instead, it’s ranked 29th out of 56 counties [...] [...]
Drug abuse remains one of the top five costliest health problems in the United States. Most of the money invested in combating alcohol and drug abuse goes toward responding to the consequences of these societal problems.
Only 2 percent goes to prevention, according to a report from the National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at [...] [...]
Colorado’s small group insurance program is relatively stable – with 21 companies providing insurance to small businesses.
That’s the 2008 report from the Division of Insurance, which shows a 7 percent, or about 25,000 fewer people, reduction in coverage between 2007 and 2008.
Despite the economic downturn, the drop isn’t the most dramatic during recent years. Between [...] [...]
Colorado is one of the top 10 states when it comes to serious disciplinary actions for doctors – and this, according to publiccitizen.org, is good news.
The state had 4.5 actions – including revocations, surrenders, suspensions and probations – for every 1,000 doctors, making it ninth of 10 states. The other states with the most disciplinary [...] [...]
Colorado ranks fourth in the nation in terms of well being, according to a national analysis of 350,000 interviews conducted in 2008.
Only Utah, Hawaii and Wyoming rank higher, with Michigan, Tennessee and Oklahoma having the lowest well-being ratings, according to the Gallup Healthways WEll-Being Index, one of the largest survey of its kind.
The Well-Being index [...] [...]
So many people wanted to attend a meeting about changing medical marijuana registry rules that the state’s board of health had to postpone the March hearing to find a bigger location.
The meeting is now tentatively scheduled for sometime during June, but once officials find a venue, the new meeting information will be posted at http://www.cdphe.state.co.us.
The department has [...] [...]
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