Tag: Colorado Hospital Association
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Colorado lawmakers advance rewrite of 2024 law to regulate artificial intelligence
With just nine days left in the 2026 legislative session, a revised proposal to amend the 2024 artificial‑intelligence law is finally advancing — even though it’s not the bill Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez had hoped for. Senate Bill 189, which largely mirrors a draft bill written by a governor-appointed task force, was introduced in…
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Colorado hospitals struggle amid growing costs of labor and supplies, on eve of mega network severing ties
The severing of a hospital network that has united Catholic and Adventist health care systems for 27 years will occur Aug. 1, a month later than CommonSpirit Health and AdventHealth initially told employees. A statement from Centura Health, the management company since the joint venture formed in 1996, provided no answer as to the reason…
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Colorado’s wealthiest hospitals favored in $1.2 billion COVID bailout
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Three years ago, as a mysterious and deadly virus called COVID-19 began to take hold in Colorado, hospital executives in the state scrambled to formulate plans, meeting weekly — sometimes daily — with elected officials, public health experts and with each other to get ahead of the coming storm they feared could overwhelm and financially…
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Respiratory cases in Colorado plateau, prompt deactivation of Combined Hospital Transfer Center
Colorado hospitals this week deactivated what’s called the “transfer center” for pediatric patients with respiratory illnesses, signaling the worst of the winter diseases may be over. “This has been extremely challenging respiratory season, especially for pediatric patients, but our hospitals have started to see cases plateau,” Jeff Tieman, Colorado Hospital Association president and CEO, said…
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What’s next for Colorado hospitals, health care with staffing as COVID-19 pandemic ebbs?
When the pandemic began two years ago, many policymakers and health officials worried over hospital capacity. Did hospitals — here and across the country — have enough beds to meet the expected flood of COVID-19 patients? As the pandemic wore on, the concern shifted away from beds themselves and toward the doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and…
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COVID-19 hospitalizations rise statewide, locally
The average number of new COVID-19 cases has consistently fallen in Colorado for the first time in weeks, state data shows, but hospitalizations continue to climb and hit a new recent high Monday. Colorado has reported an average of 1,405 new COVID-19 cases each day over the past week, according to data published each weekday…
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Costs of COVID care are complex for patients, insurers, hospitals
As if the petri dish of COVID-19 wasn’t crowded enough with physical and mental pain, many who get the virus and recover face not only income loss, but also out-of-pocket expenses associated with the infection. Rich Alperin, a heavy equipment operator in New Hampshire, passed out at work at the end of March and spent…
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Gov. Polis orders State Emergency Operations Center to return to level 1
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As COVID-19 cases continue to surge, Gov. Jared Polis on Saturday ordered the State Emergency Operations Center to return to Level 1 status. Level unifies all state agencies, federal partners and voluntary organizations that serve…
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Hospitalization transfer center created in Colorado amid projected COVID-19 rise
Hospitals across Colorado are preparing for a possible surge in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 by creating a hospital transfer center. Colorado Hospitals, in partnership with the Colorado Hospital Association, announced the transfer center on Wednesday and say it’ll be activated if the number of patients hospitalized needing to be transferred exceeds the capacity of facilities.…