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The Colorado Rural Health Center provides various resources to rural
Colorado covering many rural health issues. We continually strive to provide
assistance through our staff , online
resources, funding opportunities, and educational
events . We hope you find the following resources useful:
County Profiles (profiles on Colorado's 14 rural counties without hospitals)
CRHC Library (includes
fact sheets, downloadable maps, other CRHC publications)
Web Resources (including
links to various useful national, state and specific web resources)
Articles of Interest
Governor's Dialogue on Health Care Vision and Values (Governor's Office, February 2008).
Colorado Medicare Advantage Enrollment Up Significantly (Rupri Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, November 2007)
Proposed malpractice bill stirs support, opposition (Denver Business Journal, February 1-7, 2008)
Renewed Rural Hospital for Half the Cost of New (news release by Melissa A. Katsimpalis, December 2007)
Overburdened and Overwhelmed: The Struggles of Communities with High Medical Cost Burdens (Peter J. Cunningham, Center for Studying Health System Change, The Commonwealth Fund, November 2007)
Substance Abuse Among Rural Youth: A Little Meth and a Lot of Booze (Maine Rural Health Research Center, Muskie School of Public Health, June 2007)
Recruiting Local People to Fill Health Care Needs (Rural Assistance Center, The Rural Monitor, Summer 2007)
Plan would require all Coloradans to have health coverage (Denver Business Journal, September 10, 2007)
Study: Obesity higher in rural kids than city kids (Rockford Register Star, July 13, 2007)
The country doc: Rural health care in Colorado (9News, May 2007)
Most tractor rollver accidents are preventable (AgJournal, March 2, 2007)
Rural Veterans: A Special Concern for Rural Health Advocates (NRHA Issue Paper, February 2007)
Colorado CAHs in the AHANews! (January 2007)
Article on Elk Avenue Medical Center (Crested Butte News, October 2, 2006)