Tag: Director Of The Colorado Department Of Human Services
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New state department tasked with fixing mental health care in Colorado mired in turmoil
Staff defections, personnel clashes and delays in legislatively mandated reforms have troubled the new Behavioral Health Administration, a state department launched just over a year ago to fix Colorado’s tattered safety net for the mentally ill that one study ranked the worst in the nation. Dr. Morgan Medlock The new department was supposed to be…
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Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo re-accredited despite scoring poorly on quality measures
Surveyors found Colorado’s primary psychiatric hospital in Pueblo scored poorly on quality measures in comparison to other psychiatric hospitals in the nation but re-accredited the facility for the next three years. The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care, last month notified Jill Marshall, the chief executive officer…




