Our beloved eleven-and-a-half year old German Shorthaired Pointer has a history of being healthy as can be unless it’s really inconvenient timing for him to get sick or injured. Last week, Jackson lost his balance and fell on the wooden floor.
Systems Change
Our health care system needs work. Read more about how we're changing the systems that deliver health to Coloradans.
Greater Expectations
What if we held ourselves accountable to metrics around the expectations of patients and communities to be able to shop for the right care setting for their needs, compare health care systems and even health outcomes?
Moving Past the Plateau
During a whirlwind spring cleaning at CCMU’s offices recently, we came across a 2004 report from the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) called a “Profile of the Uninsured.” Interested in what progress we’ve made since then, I dove in.
Storytelling for Change
A successful health care system is one that meets the needs of the people it serves—and we can only tell if it is working if we are listening to the people themselves.
Staying Hopeful About Health Reform
I’ve been working on health policy issues for more than 20 years, and from the beginning my efforts were framed around health “reform.” Indeed, neither the problems under discussion nor the thrust of the proposed solutions has changed much over that time period.