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For the last several years, the Mountain Healthcare Coalition — convening community partners including Vail Valley Partnership, Vail Health, employers and brokers — has been working to lower Eagle County’s health insurance costs. During a...
Bureaucracy has strangled the effort to address the raging mental health-care crisis in Colorado.
A Virginia group is working to bolster the state's health care workforce. The Virginia Rural Health Association's Workforce Initiative is a collaboration with local workforce boards to train people in a variety of health care jobs. They can learn the skills to become licensed practical nurses, certified medical assistants, or to achieve other associate degree-level jobs. ...
Black women are three times more likely to die during pregnancy than white women, even though more than eight in 10 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. The recent finding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is just one example of how health outcomes in Colorado and across the U.S. are not equal. ...
Small businesses owners in Texas are looking for help from lawmakers as the cost they pay to provide employees with health care coverage continues to rise. A survey by Small Business for America's Future found participants believe hospital consolidations are a prime reason for the increased costs, and 80% claim they're making care availability and quality in their communities worse and more expensive. Many small business owners struggling to provide employees with health coverage drop or cut benefits. ...