The “scoping review” was ordered by the state legislature in 2021 over concerns about how high-potency cannabis could be impacting public health in Colorado
Colorado School of Public Health
Posted inCOVID
Colorado, say goodbye to Exposure Notifications, the phone-based COVID contact-tracing app
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says the phone functionality will be decommissioned on Thursday
Posted inHealth
Study finds 1 in 4 Colorado teens have quick access to guns
Creating barriers to easy access to guns extends the time before someone can act on an impulse, Colorado School of Public Health researcher says
Posted inHealth
Colorado’s push to lower hospital costs has a catch: The state also needs hospitals’ money
Hospitals say House Bill 1215, which would limit their ability to charge facility fees, will ultimately impact funding for Medicaid
Posted inHealth
Colorado will soon start licensing dental therapists in effort to help expand oral health care options
A 2022 bill provided the means for licensing dental therapists, a mid-level provider who could narrow the oral health equity gap. But training for them doesn’t exist in Colorado.
Posted inHealth
Colorado lawmakers are targeting hospital facility fees. Here’s why that’s a big deal.
House Bill 1215 would ban hospitals from charging facility fees for most outpatient visits, ending what proponents say is an unnecessary add-on that boosts hospitals’ bottom line
Posted inCOVID
Do Coloradans need to care about the new COVID variant XBB? Yeah, probably.
XBB.1.5 — nicknamed the “Kraken” — has yet to hit Colorado in full force. When it does, it could drive a new wave of infections.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: Capture the lessons of Colorado’s response to COVID-19
Time for a systematic review — the successes and failures — so we’re better prepared for the next health emergency.
Posted inHealth
Experts say vaccines, behavior changes worked as Colorado’s monkeypox cases decline
After more than two years of the COVID pandemic, it’s a bit of good news for the public health system
Posted inCOVID, Health, News
Colorado’s next COVID hurdle: Beating the usual fall surge
Little has been consistent during the coronavirus pandemic in Colorado, but this has: Fall is COVID season. In both 2020 and 2021, as kids returned to classes and pumpkin-spiced lattes emerged from their caffeinated hidey-holes, COVID cases began to rise in the state. By this time last year, reports of new coronavirus infections had already […]