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The new infrastructure bill has transportation and transit agencies thinking about which projects to prioritize to advance cleaner and more efficient transportation systems for the next several decades.

The state wants hospitals to convert them to other purposes, such as providing primary care or mental health services.

Colorado offers to pay hospitals to close free-standing ERs PHIL GALEWITZ, Kaiser Health News May 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3A free-standing emergency room, one of nine owned by UCHealth and part of the University of Colorado, is seen in the Denver suburb of Arvada, Colo., on May 16, 2021. The health system has converted 10 other stand-alone emergency rooms into other uses, mostly primary care or urgent care centers, in the past two years. (Markian Hawryluk/Kaiser Health N...

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.