| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.09.2026 | Colorado sues Trump administration over rule forbidding federal funds for youth gender care | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado and 20 other states are suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for banning the use of federal funds to pay for gender-affirming care for youth insured by Medicaid.
The atto... |
| 17.08.2026 | Epic Launches Coverage Requirements Discovery API with Ochsner, Froedtert, Denver Health, and Summit Health | Image Credit: Epic What You Should Know
Four major health systems—Ochsner Health, Froedtert ThedaCare Health, Denver Health, and Summit Health—have deployed real-time prior authorization checks directly inside their native Epic EHR workflow... |
| 20.07.2026 | Outside probe of tuberculosis in Aurora’s ICE detention center remains stuck as officials press for access | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
State and county health officials continued to hit roadblocks Monday in their attempts to gain access to the federal immigration detention center in Aurora to investigate a case of tuberculosis in ... |
| 16.07.2026 | 12 Colorado hospitals considered ‘financially vulnerable’ to upcoming federal health care cuts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A national nurses union flagged 12 Colorado hospitals at particular risk from upcoming federal cuts — medical facilities that mostly have avoided prior attention to their finances.
The report from ... |
| 15.07.2026 | Children’s Hospital Colorado faces contempt hearing over failure to provide gender-affirming care | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Children’s Hospital Colorado faces a hearing for contempt of court after its doctors didn’t resume gender-affirming care.
The Aurora hospital and Denver Health stopped prescribing puberty blockers ... |
| 30.06.2026 | Colorado Retina Associates Welcomes Retina Specialist Jesse Smith, MD | Dr. Smith's addition expands access to specialized retinal care for patients throughout Boulder County and the Denver Metro Area.
DENVER, June 30, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Colorado Retina Associates is proud to announce that Dr. Jesse Smi... |
| 12.06.2026 | Boulder City Council skeptical of conservative-backed 2026 ballot measures | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to clarify that the council discussed these ballot measures during its Thursday study session.
A slew of initiatives coming to the November ballot likel... |
| 12.05.2026 | Psychedelic crisis training coming to first responders across Colorado | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
First responders across Colorado will soon have access to training designed specifically to bolster psychedelic crisis response and intervention.
The training, developed by the Multidisciplinary As... |
| 10.05.2026 | From ‘Just Say No’ to Narcan: How drug education is changing in a modern world | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
On a Saturday afternoon last year, more than a dozen teenagers gathered in Denver to learn about naloxone, a medicinal nasal spray that can reverse an overdose of the synthetic drug fentanyl and ot... |
| 05.04.2026 | Rochester EMS System Achieves 97% Medication Dosing Accuracy with Handtevy in Landmark Study | Published in Prehospital Emergency Care, the Dorsett et al. study is the first in the peer-reviewed literature to demonstrate sustained, near-perfect medication dosing accuracy in a multi-agency EMS system using the Handtevy platform, which... |
| 23.02.2026 | Colorado hospital profits rose in 2024, but they’re still far from pre-pandemic levels | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado hospitals’ finances rebounded in 2024 after taking a beating in the previous two years, but still haven’t regained their pre-pandemic heights, according to a pair of new state reports.
Exp... |
| 21.01.2026 | Parents of transgender kids sue Children’s Hospital Colorado for pausing gender-affirming care | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Parents of four transgender children sued Children’s Hospital Colorado this week, alleging its decision to suspend gender-affirming care amounts to discrimination under state law.
Both Children’s a... |
| 06.01.2026 | Here’s what to know about the unprecedented changes to child vaccine recommendations | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who s... |
| 06.01.2026 | Why ordering takeout or calling the dog walker might lead to a happier relationship | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH
It turns out, love may benefit from a little less labor. Related Articles
Trump administration freezes Colorado funding for child care, families in ‘deep poverty’
Abortion sta... |
| 06.01.2026 | Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver Health pause gender-affirming care for minors again | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Children’s Hospital Colorado and Denver Health have suspended gender-affirming hormonal treatments for minors again, though transgender youth can still get care in Colorado from providers that don’... |
| 16.12.2025 | Colorado hospitals have the profits to help more patients financially (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Coloradans are getting crushed between hospital profits, insurance company profits and rising uncompensated care. These three insatiable drains on our health care system have broken medicine and ma... |
| 20.09.2025 | One-third of Gov. Jared Polis’ budget cuts involve Medicaid | Almost one-third of the budget cuts and sweeps of unused money that Gov. Jared Polis used to close a $249 million budget hole will come from Medicaid, and providers are trying to figure out how much disruption that will cause for them and t... |
| 14.09.2025 | Coloradans can get updated COVID vaccines, but insurance might not cover the shots | Anyone 6 months and older who wants a COVID-19 shot in Colorado can now get one, but the vaccine will only be free for those with the right insurance — at least for now.
Initially, pharmacies couldn’t administer the updated shots in Colorad... |
| 06.09.2025 | Colorado hospitals provided $141 million in charity care in first quarter — up 26% from last year | Colorado hospitals provided $141 million in charity care to patients who couldn’t pay during the first quarter of 2025, continuing the steep increases seen in recent years.
The cost of charity care rose 26% compared to the first quarter of ... |
| 26.08.2025 | Colorado, UCHealth reach deal to avoid clawback of $60 million from public hospitals | Moving Memorial and Poudre Valley from the public to the private bucket means that less money remains for all public hospitals to divide up, and that Memorial and Poudre Valley likely will get more back from the provider tax, because they’r... |
| 02.08.2025 | Older Coloradans nearly back to pre-pandemic death rates, but middle-aged people dying younger than expected | But a reduction in deaths doesn’t necessarily point to fewer people using drugs or having nonfatal overdoses — it could simply reflect that friends or bystanders are more likely to have naloxone on hand to revive the victims than in previou... |
| 12.07.2025 | The Trump administration wants to eradicate DEI in higher education. These Black scholars still plan to thrive. | Three Black students who received scholarships from the Sachs Foundation — a Colorado-based nonprofit supporting Black communities — told The Denver Post about their experiences entering college as the Trump administration works to dismantl... |
| 08.07.2025 | Colorado Medicaid agency could claw back $60 million from Denver Health and rural hospitals | The state pools the provider tax money from hospitals with the same ownership type. That means, if Memorial and Poudre Valley are privately owned, their share of the tax goes into the private pool, leaving less money for publicly owned hosp... |
| 23.06.2025 | Nabla: $70 Million Series C Raised For Delivering Agentic AI To The Center Of Clinical Workflows | Nabla, which is one of the most widely adopted AI assistants in clinical care, announced it has raised $70 million in Series C funding. Led by HV Capital, with Highland Europe joining as key investor, DST Global, and existing investors Cath... |
| 18.06.2025 | Nabla's $70 Million Leap: Transforming Clinical Care with Agentic AI | Nabla is on a mission. With a fresh $70 million in Series C funding, the New York City-based company is poised to revolutionize clinical workflows. This funding round, led by HV Capital, with support from Highland Europe, DST Global, and ex... |
| 17.06.2025 | Nabla Raises $70 Million Series C to Deliver Agentic AI to the Heart of Clinical Workflows, Bringing Total Funding to $120Million | Nabla, one of the most widely adopted AI assistants in clinical care, today announced it has raised $70 million in Series C funding. Led by HV Capital, with Highland Europe joining as key investor, DST Global, and existing investors Cathay ... |
| 13.06.2025 | How expressing gratitude can transform your work and life | But despite its benefits, promoting gratefulness is often overlooked as a valuable way to spend time and resources in the workplace.
Experts in organizational change shared ways to incorporate more gratitude into the workday.
Start small
If... |
| 30.05.2025 | Guest opinion: Judy Amabile: Medicaid cuts will hurt you too | Colorado communities are already reeling from the impacts of inadequate treatment for psychosis and substance disorders. Our community mental health centers serve almost 100% Medicaid patients. These facilities could end up shutting down if... |
| 11.05.2025 | Hospital systems in Colorado saw improved finances in 2024, but Medicaid cuts are ‘looming threat’ | The average expenses to operate a hospital in Colorado rose about 7.4% last year, continuing a pattern of costs outpacing revenues, he said.
“At those levels, it’s incredibly difficult for (insurance) reimbursement to keep up,” he said.
Nat... |
| 05.05.2025 | A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study | “We need to understand what it is that is creating this challenge to vaccines and why,” said Michael Osterholm, who directs the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and worries the country is entering ... |
| 15.04.2025 | The Race for Colorado's Governor: A New Contender and a Looming Health Crisis | The political landscape in Colorado is shifting. Senator Michael Bennet is poised to enter the race for governor, stirring the pot among Democrats. Meanwhile, the state grapples with a resurgence of measles, a disease many thought was a rel... |
| 09.04.2025 | Colorado reports 2 additional measles cases, warns virus may be spreading undetected | The Denver patient, an infant under 1 year old, contracted measles during a recent visit to an area of Chihuahua, Mexico, that is currently experiencing an outbreak, according to city and state public health officials. Denver Health dischar... |
| 20.02.2025 | Medicaid Cuts: A Looming Crisis for Colorado's Health Care System | In the heart of Colorado, a storm brews. Medicaid, a lifeline for many, hangs in the balance. Proposed cuts threaten to unravel the safety net that supports the most vulnerable. The stakes are high, and the clock is ticking.
Republicans in ... |
| 20.02.2025 | Politics | Potential Medicaid cuts could mean trouble, Colorado health care leaders, Rep. Diana DeGette say | While there aren’t yet specific proposals on how to cut Medicaid, Republicans have floated a few ideas, including creating a work requirement for participation in the program. But that wouldn’t save very much money since the vast majority o... |
| 01.02.2025 | The Shifting Landscape of Healthcare: Navigating New Orders and Innovative Treatments | The healthcare landscape is a battleground. Policies shift like sand, and patients often find themselves caught in the crossfire. Recent decisions by hospitals in Colorado illustrate this turmoil. On one side, we have the pause on gender-af... |
| 31.01.2025 | Health | Denver Health pauses gender-affirming surgeries for youth to comply with Trump order, preserve federal funds | In Virginia, VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond said they have suspended gender-affirming medication and gender-affirming surgical procedures for those under 19. In Washington, D.C., Children’s National Hospital said it had “pau... |
| 30.01.2025 | Health | Some hospitals pause gender-affirming care to evaluate Trump’s executive order | Other hospitals told The Associated Press that their current practices would continue. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago said hospital officials are reviewing the order and “assessing any potential impact to the clinical services we offe... |
| 21.01.2025 | Denver Health to Deploy Nabla’s Ambient AI Asst. to Combat Clinician Burnout | What You Should Know:
– Denver Health, an integrated health system and Colorado’s primary safety-net provider has partnered with Nabla, an ambient AI technology for healthcare, to deploy its AI-powered assistant across its network of hospit... |
| 10.09.2024 | The Struggle for Survival: Pregnant Migrants in Colorado's Streets | In the heart of Colorado, a silent crisis unfolds. Pregnant migrants, seeking refuge and a better life, find themselves on the streets. Their dreams, once vibrant and full of hope, have turned into a harsh reality. The American Dream, for m... |
| 09.09.2024 | “I’m living a lie”: On the streets of a Colorado city, pregnant migrants struggle to survive | That night, temperatures dipped to 32 degrees. And as she wrapped her body around her son’s to keep him warm enough that he could sleep, Ivanni Herrera cried.Seeking better lives, finding something else
Over the past two years, a record num... |
| 02.08.2024 | Health | CU’s School of Medicine is first to move to new model for training doctors | Haider Sarwar, a medical student from Chicago, said he wasn’t sure what a longitudinal clerkship would mean when he chose CU, but he enjoyed the experience. He plans to specialize in ophthalmology and has an interest in eye surgeries, so he... |
| 05.07.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Woman accused of theft and attempting to discharge relative against advice from Longmont hospital | A nurse told police that her relative was admitted into the Longs Peak Hospital Emergency Department on Jan. 29 for an illness and if he did not receive these antibiotics soon, “he would go septic and likely die of organ failure.”
The illne... |
| 06.06.2024 | Denver Health hopes tax increase can help its finances | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Denver Health's ability to provide optimal care may rest on the public's appetite for a tax increase.
Why it matters: The money could prevent cutbacks for Denver Health, which is struggling to cover c... |
| 05.06.2024 | Proposal giving most Denver employees collective bargaining rights moves forward | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Thousands more Denver employees may earn collective bargaining rights in a move supporters say could improve pay equity and protections for city workers.
Why it matters: Backers say unions can improve... |
| 03.06.2024 | Health | Colorado clinics, mental health providers are seeing more uninsured patients — and they’re worried that’s the new normal | Despite public perceptions that everyone can get affordable coverage through the individual marketplace, people often find they can’t pay their out-of-pocket costs if they get sick or hurt, said Dr. Bebe Kleinman, CEO of Doctors Care in Lit... |
| 01.05.2024 | ZEEL OFFERS HOSPITALS THE OPPORTUNITY TO REWARD NURSES FOR NATIONAL NURSES WEEK | Massage is the Ideal Way to Show Appreciation to Hard Working Nurses
NEW YORK, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Zeel, the leading tech-enabled platform for bringing health and wellness services to the home or office, is proud to partner with hos... |
| 23.04.2024 | Health | Doctors take on dental duties to reach low-income and uninsured patients | Kate Ruder | (TNS) KFF Health News
DENVER — Pediatrician Patricia Braun and her team saw roughly 100 children at a community health clinic on a recent Monday. They gave flu shots and treatments for illnesses like ear infections. But Braun a... |
| 21.03.2024 | Denver sees immigrant lull but prepares for a spring surge | The number of immigrants in Denver shelters fell below 1,000 this week for the first time in six months, city officials tell us — but if migration patterns hold true, another surge is on the way.
The latest: Denver leaders are working on a ... |
| 06.05.2021 | Mediaplanet Wins 4 Prestigious Awards of Excellence for Its Content Marketing Work | "These four awards of excellence are a great reminder that powerful stories can be a guiding force, offering hope in challenging times." - Luciana Olson; Mediaplanet’s U.S. Managing Director
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| 27.01.2021 | Frustrations mount for older Coloradans seeking COVID-19 vaccinations | After getting on every waitlist she could find, Julie Tuohy finally secured an appointment to get the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine last week.
The 71-year-old has spent almost a year following social-distancing guidelines, avoiding spend... |
| 07.01.2021 | How Coloradans 70 and older can get a COVID-19 vaccine | Colorado health systems and hospitals are beginning to allow people 70 and older — who are at the highest risk from COVID-19 — to sign up to receive vaccines, state officials announced Wednesday.
Older residents, along with essential worker... |
| 05.02.2014 | In the era of Obamacare, third generation doctor questions the profession | Denver Health has never been known as a fancy place, but one that’s always been there for people in need since its log cabin origins in 1860.
Michael’s office has a well-worn futon where he sometimes crashes on long shifts. His office walls... |
| 30.01.2013 | Public health officials put a handy mobile app to use in mass immunization efforts | What it doesn’t do is save time during the actual mass immunization process – during campaigns, the average time it takes a person to complete the process from sign-in to vaccination is about four to five minutes, according to Melissa McClu... |
| 10.05.2012 | Don Berwick on healthcare spending: “We have to improve our way out of this” | “We can get out of this; we can absolutely get out of this,” said Berwick, former Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator. “But we have to improve our way out of this.”
Berwick was a keynote speaker at the the SAS Health C... |
| - | In the era of Obamacare, third generation doctor questions the profession | DENVER — Being a doctor in America is changing, in part because of Obamacare and also because of longer trends in the practice of medicine. Drs. Robert and Michael Sawyer practice at Denver Health, the city’s big public hospital downtown.
S... |
| - | Don Berwick on healthcare spending: “We have to improve our way out of this” | Cost figures from the healthcare reform debate are large enough to defy comprehension, but Dr. Donald Berwick boils things down to one crucial figure: $1 out of every $3 spent on healthcare is wasted.
He then argues that the way to get cont... |
| - | Public health officials put a handy mobile app to use in mass immunization efforts | In the fall of 2011, Health and Human Services CTO Todd Park challenged developers and public health professionals to work together to create mobile apps that would help track, measure and report progress on public health topics. But by tha... |