My first job out of college was working for Salud Family Health Centers as an Americorps volunteer. Back then, a novel approach to providing community health education was just making inroads in Commerce City, where I was based.
Innovations
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From Head to Toe
CCMU and many other advocates around the state have been pushing for better integration between mental health and physical health services, combining access points for both mental and physical issues.
Balancing Act
We each have a microbiome—essentially a cloud of germs, bacteria, and other critters—that live all over and inside of us. The total number of individual foreign bodies that make up this microbiome is TEN TIMES as many as the number of cells that make up our own body.
Across the State in Seven Days
As part of our 15 year celebration, we decided it was time to again make a concerted effort and travel to the far reaches of our great state to meet with health care leaders and community members.
Lessons from the Hops
Perhaps it was some light reading that got me thinking, or perhaps it was the pint of Colorado-brewed bliss in my hand, but I came to the conclusion this weekend that Colorado’s health care system could learn much from Colorado’s craft brewing scene.