Another legislative session has come and gone! During the 2010 Legislative session, there were approximately 119 bills introduced that specifically addressed healthcare, of those, a handful of bills focused on rural healthcare services. The CRHC 2010 Legislative Summary touches on a few of the bills CRHC tracked this session....

In 2009 the Colorado General Assembly passed HB09-1119, which established the Rural Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment Program within the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Behavioral Health (DBH). This program is reliant on cash funds collected from DUI and other impaired driving offenses. The DBH hopes to...

CRHC is collaborating with the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to collect stories from rural facilities about their HIT experiences. If you’ve adopted technology, we want to know your story…What worked? What didn’t work? What was critical to...

I was delighted to join Colorado Hospital Association CEO, Steven Summer, and other Colorado hospital leaders at the American Hospital Association Membership meeting in Washington D.C. in April. The trip gave me the chance to continue our discussion with Colorado’s Congressional Delegation about the need to support Colorado’s Rural...

Colorado’s Primary Care Office, which administers the state’s loan repayment program, the Colorado Health Service Corp (CHSC), has awarded $1.60 million in loan forgiveness dollars to health professionals who provide healthcare services in rural and underserved areas of our state. Congratulations to all the loan forgiveness recipients!

The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) is a wealth of information for all things health-related in Colorado. Recently CHI conducted studies focused on both rural dentists and rural physicians. Christine Demont-Heinrich, Interim Workforce Program Manager, created a presentation highlighting some of the key findings from the CHI research, which include:...

For the past year, there has been a lot of scrutiny and focus on the Trinidad State Nursing Home and whether the state should sell it, has the legal authority to sell it, and what selling the nursing home would mean for its residents, employees and the community. A...

I know, I know. The legislature isn’t officially over until tomorrow, but it’s never too early to start thinking about the November elections. Coloradans will be voting on the following:Governor & Lt. GovernorSenatorSecretary of StateState TreasurerAttorney GeneralAll 7 Congressional District (House of Representatives) seats also are up for re-election...