To make progress on our shared challenges, like improving our health care system, our political system, or our civic discourse, we must pursue an appreciation and understanding of others’ experiences. It is hard work. It requires discipline, commitment, a closed mouth, and an open mind and heart.
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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.
Engaging in Your Own Health
Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know venerable leader Reverend Bill Calhoun. Reverend Calhoun has a long history of serving Denver, including leading critical conversations about health care in communities around the city.
The End of the Stairstep
As a kid, I didn’t know how lucky I was. For some families, continuous access to the health care is challenging. Fortunately, Colorado is making some important changes to public health insurance which will help families access the care they need, when they need it.
The Big Picture
Clearly, there is a broad recognition of the challenges we face with health care, and Coloradans are concerned that our system isn’t working well enough. They understand that their friends, neighbors, and community members need the health care system to work for them, too.
Wisdom from My Elders
I spent some time recently interviewing my mother and each of her three sisters that now work in health care and they shared their perspectives on how health care works—and should work.
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.
Being Human Together
My favorite parts of my job are the moments where the connection between the people using the health care system and the work that we do becomes crystal clear.
Embracing Compassion
I should have been a teacher. Every woman on my mother’s side of my family–my grandmother, my mother, my two aunts, my sister, and my cousin–all teachers.
Tell Me a Story
Nestled up against the mountains with blue skies as far as the eye can see, Durango is like an oasis in the desert of the four corners region. I was there last month to record stories for Colorado HealthStory, but wound up getting so much more out of my visit.