Colorado news and information

Adult obesity still isn't budging, the latest government survey shows. The national telephone survey found 13 states with very high rates of obesity last year. Overall, the proportion of U.S. adults deemed obese has been about the same for years now.
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In Morrisville, N.C., just down from the Target and Gander Mountain big-box stores and between a nail salon and dental office, North Carolina's largest health insurer opened its first retail store.
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Federal prosecutors in Milwaukee sued a Kentucky-based pharmaceuticals services firm on Friday, accusing PharMerica Corp. of illegally dispensing addictive narcotics without proper oversight.
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LEADVILLE, Colo.—An affiliation and services agreement has been signed between Centura Health and St. Vincent Hospital, a 12-bed critical-access institution in Leadville, with a 13-bed nursing home unit. The affiliation agreement calls for developing shared programs to complement and...
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Dr. Michelle Eads doesn't have a large staff at Pinnacle Family Medicine, the solo practice she operates in Colorado Springs, Colo. But since 2008, the office has had an official greeter.
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Television commercials have already run suggesting that buying health coverage through the state’s new insurance market, Connect for Health Colorado, will feel like winning the World Series. Colorado, five months before the central provisions of President Obama’s healthcare law take...
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An innocent Twitter exchange back in February with Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rogers has thrust a Colorado travel nurse into the media spotlight.
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A major healthcare provider in the Denver area announced it was eliminating 300 jobs, but then a major healthcare payer announced it was adding an equal number of new positions.
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It's no surprise that collaboration between payers and providers will continue to increase as the launch of health insurance exchanges in October approaches. But sustaining that cooperation will require “physician champions” to work closely with payers and more simplified contracts...
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Rulon Stacey, president of the University of Colorado Health system, has been appointed chairman of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Overseers.
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