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Colorado health officials so abhor the high costs associated with free-standing emergency rooms they're offering to pay hospitals to shut the facilities down.

Why Colorado law still might not help you avoid those surprise medical bills Andrew Coop on Unsplash Posted at 12:14 PM, May 07, 2021 and last updated 2021-05-07 18:34:27-04 DENVER — When a new state law went into effect in January 2020, the benefit to Coloradans was supposedly straightforward: You wont get a surprise — and often exorbitant — medical bill. Under the legislation, healthcare providers were now required to provide a patient notice, ahead of time, of a bill if they...

email article Our nation recently marked one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. President Biden marked the anniversary by announcing an accelerated pace for getting the nation vaccinated with a goal of making every adult in the U.S. eligible for vaccination no later than May 1. As part of the national strategy, the administration is planning to help community health centers reach at-risk and underserved communities, including low-income and minority pat...

We at Advance-CTR are pleased to announce our newest class of Pilot Project Program awardees. The 2020 awardees have proposed projects that use a variety of translational research techniques to study diseases and health challenges that address Rhode Islands community health priorities.  Please join us in congratulating the awardees and their teams: "Predicting Hemorrhage and Thrombosis in Mechanical Circulatory Support: A Study Using Machine Learning"