I have skied a lot in my life. I started at a young age, and since both my parents were small business owners, we never took week-long vacations, just weekly pilgrimages to the Colorado mountains to ski.
Systems Change
Our health care system needs work. Read more about how we're changing the systems that deliver health to Coloradans.
Mapping Our Way to a Healthier Future
As a child, I remember looking over maps on hiking trips and grappling with how to identify my location and the route of our journey. The skill I never quite mastered was folding the map back up correctly.
Collective Impact: New Name, Time-Tested Strategy
There are few things in my work here at CCMU that I am as passionate about as bringing people together to catalyze change. As you might expect, the idea of “collective impact” is right up my alley.
The Evidence for Empathy
One of the most commonly asked questions we get at CCMU is how we define “medically underserved.” Our answer is that the medically underserved are those who are vulnerable to poor health. A person’s health is shaped by countless things, but our life circumstances are a major determining factor. These
Reading, Writing, and a Year in Review
Every week we publish a new blog post written by one of our CCMU staff or board members. We write from the heart, and we draw from our own experiences to help share our perspective on the issues.