Colorado Behavioral Health Administration Commissioner Dannette Smith Gov. Jared Polis announced Thursday that Dannette Smith will take over as commissioner of the state’s 2-year-old Behavioral Health Administration starting March 18. …
By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS (AP Education Writer) Trenace Dorsey-Hollins’ 5-year-old daughter was sick a lot last year. Dorsey-Hollins followed school guidelines and kept her home when she had a cough …
More than half of Colorado hospitals have posted all consumer price information required by the federal government, but others still have more work to do toward full transparency, according to …
Hospital profits in Colorado dropped by 70% in 2022 as labor costs and uncompensated care rose, but larger facilities still made money on patient care. Hospitals earned a combined $334 …
Colorado public health officials are asking for an additional $8 million to fight syphilis, which continues to spread more rapidly in the state even as other sexually transmitted infections have …
Denver’s initial experiment in housing some of the higher-risk population living on the street didn’t reduce deaths, but the groups running the program’s second phase think they can improve health …
A bill in the Colorado legislature would shorten the mandatory waiting period for medical aid in dying from more than two weeks to two days, opening the option to more …
“PBS NewsHour,” the nightly newscast seen on hundreds of public television stations across the United States, on Wednesday evening spotlighted The Denver Post’s four-part special report on the surge …
Winter is here, inflicting its usual array of symptoms — coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue and fever — and, this year, a new COVID-19 variant is dominating the scoreboard. COVID-19 is …
Colorado hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities would be required to come up with plans to reduce violence against their staffs under a bill in the state legislature. …