Tag: Hospitals
-
Colorado Senate OKs enforcing price transparency for hospitals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Senate approved a bill Wednesday to allow the state to enforce federal laws requiring hospitals to publicly post prices online. Under Senate Bill 252, hospitals must maintain a public list of at least 300 shoppable services and regularly report to the Colorado Department of…
-
Lawmakers give bill allowing hospital visits another chance after heartbreaking testimony from families affected by COVID
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Richard Gillham, a resident of Peetz in northern Logan County, was a farmer all his life. Rim Ranch, which his family owns, is one of Colorado’s Centennial farms, a designation awarded to farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years.…
-
SCL Health merging with system based in Salt Lake City
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Broomfield-based SCL Health, a major provider of health care in Colorado, Montana and Kansas, announced Thursday it intends to merge with Intermountain Healthcare. If approved by regulators, the merger of the two nonprofit integrated hospital…
-
What happens if Colorado hospitals have to start choosing who gets a hospital bed?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Here’s a nightmare scenario. In the wake of Thanksgiving, COVID rates spike even higher. Hospitalizations climb higher than their record-setting peaks. Health care workers keep getting sick. Hospitals stretch and then lose their capacity to treat all the patients — COVID or not — walking…
-
Deaths from COVID-19 in Colorado could double in the next five weeks, state officials say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Deaths from COVID-19 between when the pandemic began in March and this week have exceeded 2,800, but state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said during a Tuesday news conference that models show that toll could more than double in the next five weeks, depending on the…
-
14 ICU beds available in Colorado Springs; 1 in 41 Coloradans contagious, Polis says
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On Tuesday, November 24, 2020, Governor Jared Polis delivered a COVID-19 response update for Colorado, including the rising case numbers in the state and limited numbers of ICU beds across the state. (Video by Skyler Ballard) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “NEWS | Gov.…