Colorado news and information

It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care were not human beings.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo.—The University of Colorado Health system broke ground Jan. 17 at the site of its new $11 million cancer center on the Harmony campus of its 238-bed Poudre Valley Hospital. The 30,000-square-foot outpatient facility is expected to be completed next year. The building...
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Healthcare competition is starting to heat up in Fort Collins, Colo., with one system breaking ground on a new cancer center and another unveiling plans that include a 192-bed hospital.
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States have made progress in implementing Medicaid upgrades required by the 2010 federal healthcare overhaul but much work remains to be done, according to an annual survey of all 50 programs.
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Dr. Irene Aguilar, a Colorado Democratic state legislator, has resigned as a primary-care physician at Denver Health, the state's safety net system anchored by the Denver Health Medical Center, and has taken a seat on the Denver Health and Hospital Authority board of directors.
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To bolster the infrastructure of its “health neighborhood” model, Centura Health announced that it would spend $20.5 million to expand its medical office in the Southlands shopping mall in Aurora, Colo.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.— El Camino Hospital filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a voter-approved measure that limits what the public hospital could pay its executives. Officials from the two-campus Silicon Valley hospital filed a complaint in Santa Clara Superior Court in San Jose. The...
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Centura Health has established an integrated network of 198 physicians in 13 Colorado communities that it said will move beyond “traditional reactive sick care” to a consumer-centric model that advances wellness services with a focus on keeping people healthy.
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's state of the state address included a moment of silence for the 12 people who were shot and killed in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater July 20 and a call for a “comprehensive overhaul of the state's mental health system.”
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The University of Colorado Health system and Ivinson Memorial Hospital, a 90-bed institution in Laramie, Wyo., have entered in a management agreement effective Jan. 1. It is the first agreement UC Health has made with a hospital in Wyoming.
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