It is 2:30 p.m. at the School-Based Health Center in Durango High School. In one room, a teen is being counseled after telling his friends he was contemplating suicide. Another student comes in complaining of terrible pain from a migraine.
Access to Care
Coloradans should be able to get the health care they need, when they need it. Read more about how we're working to make this vision a reality.
Different People, Same Conversation
The formal definition of symmetry is, “correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane or line.” These groups may be operating in different planes, but they aspire to many of the same things.
Long Distance
For the entire city, there were a total of one full-time and one half-time oncologist, and both of them were booked for the foreseeable future. The next closest oncologist was 1,500 miles away from home.
A Personal and Professional Imperative
Being a patient advocate and navigator began for me when I was only 20 years old. These words or labels were not the vocabulary of the time 37 years ago, but it was the work I did on behalf of my 50-year-old mother.
Five Years of Forward Progress
Five years ago this month, a bipartisan Commission of health care leaders in Colorado released a set of recommendations to increase health care coverage in Colorado and reduce health care costs.