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An increasing number of Colorado coronavirus patients are surviving, and fewer need ventilators
By Jennifer Brown Health Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado health care workers felt called to help coronavirus patients in cities where thousands were dying
By Jennifer Brown Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado doctors now have plenty of experience battling coronavirus — and they’re getting better at it
By Jesse Paul Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published
5 weeks into Colorado’s coronavirus crisis, state health officials begin to request patient demographic details
By Michael Booth Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado hospitals are preparing their doctors and nurses for an all-hands-on-deck coronavirus fight
Hospitals across the U.S. are readying doctors who don’t normally care for the seriously or critically ill to respond to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in a massive, hasty realignment of the American health care system
Colorado hospitals are postponing elective surgeries, reusing masks in preparation for a coronavirus surge
Hospitals and urgent care centers are already seeing numbers rise as more people who aren’t infected but are worried about COVID-19 come to get examined
Polis wants communities to negotiate directly with hospitals. But, in Durango, a major hospital system just said no.
Centura Health, which operates Durango’s Mercy Regional Medical Center, says it will not work with the new Southwest Health Alliance
Terminally ill, a Colorado man wanted aid-in-dying. His Catholic hospital said no.
Even as an increasing number of U.S. states have legalized aid-in-dying laws, exercising that option is challenging for patients in a country where most large hospital systems have deep religious ties and the religious right is powerful
Opinion: The public option plan isn’t sustainable for Colorado and jeopardizes access
Centura Health's CEO says employers could be encouraged to drop health coverage under the public option plan
Opinion
Colorado hospitals accuse Polis administration of hurting Medicaid patients, as health fight grows nastier
In a letter to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, hospital executives say onerous rules, outdated processes are putting patients at risk
Colorado doctor challenges her firing from Centura Health over assisted suicide
Barbara Morris alleges Centura Health retaliated against her in violation of Colorado's assisted suicide law
Why Colorado hospitals are getting into the housing business
Denver Health, Mercy in Durango, find providing housing is safer, more cost effective for patients "stranded" in the system
Centura Health says clarity is needed on Colorado’s assisted suicide law after lawsuit
In a federal court filing, Centura Health argues that the U.S. Constitution's religious freedom protections trumps Colorado law's protections for doctors who both chose to or decide against prescribing lethal drugs to hasten the death of patients
