Tag: Penrose Hospital
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Colorado Springs hospitals waive personal costs for Club Q victims
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Victims of the mass shooting at Club Q have had a lot on their minds since enduring the unthinkable event just over six months ago, but Colorado Springs’ two hospital systems have been working to make sure hospital bills weren’t one of them. Both UCHealth, a statewide network that includes Memorial Hospital Central and Memorial…
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Colorado coroner’s love of scary movies, childhood prepared him for career
On his way to the morgue, Dr. Leon Kelly changes his shoes. He switches out his regular walking shoes for a pair of skull-decorated Crocs. They’re old and spattered with all the stuff you might associate with the kind of work he does. “They’re covered with 15 years of blood, bodily fluids, brains and probably…
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‘God’s still in the miracles business,’ says author and other receivers and believers of supernatural events
Jeremiah Klaas was dying of multiple sclerosis. Fifteen years post-diagnosis, the disease of the brain and spinal cord had numbed his limbs to the point that he could not walk or drive. His eyes would not focus enough so that he could read. He had been in and out of nursing homes for physical rehabilitation…
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Centura breaks ground on 3rd Colorado Springs hospital
Centura Health broke ground Monday on the newest part of its continuing expansion in Colorado Springs —a 72-bed hospital named for St. Clare of Assisi, founder of the Catholic religious order of nuns. The $160 million St. Clare Hospital is scheduled to open in March 2023 southeast of Interstate 25 and InterQuest Parkway to serve…