Tag: Healthcare
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Colorado health department rolls out new COVID-19 dashboard
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment gave its COVID-19 dashboard an updated look Wednesday. The new data portal will also feature weekly updates to Colorado’s COVID-19 case numbers. This comes amid increasing cases in three viruses: Influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Flu season has begun — as have the COVID and RSV seasons —…
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Faces of Fentanyl: A Special Report by The Denver Gazette
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Over 450 Coloradans died of fentanyl poisoning or overdoses just through August of this year, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. That number could be on the low end though, as toxicology testing and investigations sometimes take months, CDPHE statistician, Kirk Bol, says
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Union ratifies King Soopers’ contract; strike officially ends
Members of metro Denver area United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 voted Monday to approve a new three-year contract offered by Kroger Co., who owns all King Soopers and City Market stores in Colorado, according to a late Monday news release. The agreement includes wage hikes of up to $5 per hour for some…
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Little progress made in King Soopers strike negotiations, officials say
Both the Kroger Co. and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 continued to badmouth the other side Monday as the King Soopers strike stretched into a sixth day, but at least they were still talking at the negotiating table. About 8,400 union workers walked out of 77 metro Denver area King Soopers and City…
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Q&A: The King Soopers strike
Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 voted overwhelmingly to strike in advance of the union’s contract with The Kroger Co. expiring Jan. 8. Kroger owns King Soopers and City Market stores. It operates 143 grocery stores, 97 convenience stores, nine jewelry stores and eight manufacturing and distribution facilities that employ more than…
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Colorado approves $11 million to lure firms and jobs
An education technology, food-safety technology, bioscience and medical device company might be headed to, or expanding in, Colorado with the promise of more than $11 million in economic incentives to create more than 600 jobs, the state’s Economic Development Commission decided Thursday. The commission approves incentives presented by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and…
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SCL Health merging with system based in Salt Lake City
Broomfield-based SCL Health, a major provider of health care in Colorado, Montana and Kansas, announced Thursday it intends to merge with Intermountain Healthcare. If approved by regulators, the merger of the two nonprofit integrated hospital networks would create a 33-hospital system with more than 58,000 caregivers and run 385 clinics across six states, including the…
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NEWS | Colorado’s 1st million dollar vaccine lottery winner
Hear from Colorado’s 1st million dollar vaccine lottery winner, Sally Sliger, a healthcare worker and Mead resident. (Video by David Mullen)
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Metro Moves: Big Blue Swim School opens its first Colorado location
Welcome to the Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion briefs here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. Now open: Big Blue Swim School opened its first Colorado location at the Smoky Hill Town Center, 20153 E. Smoky Hill Road, in Centennial earlier…
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Colorado commission approves $10.6 million in economic incentives
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s Economic Development Commission Thursday approved up to $10.6 million in job-creation tax credits to five companies that want to expand or relocate here. Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Travel (OEDIT) keeps the companies’ names secret until all the paperwork is signed, but…