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Colorado health facilities reported to the state health department 1,083 cases of missing drugs in the past five years. An anesthesiologist tells how easy it was for an in-house criminal to steal drugs, and leave the patients with fake painkillers.
A proposal to expand Medicaid to cover 160,000 more Coloradans will add roughly 12,000 jobs statewide, according to a rough estimate by economic development leader Tom Clark. To put it in perspective, that amounts to one-quarter of all the jobs created in Colorado in the past year
The total pricetag for some 50 hospital construction projects across Colorado comes in at $3.4 billion, a Colorado Public News examination has found. The expansions are occurring at a time of great change in the industry
Across Colorado, hospitals are demanding all employees get flu shots or be fired. The choice pits the safety of sick patients who could die from a hospital-acquired case of influenza, against the rights of employees to refuse a shot. Nationally,
The number of Colorado hospitals receiving an “A” grade for patient safety nearly doubled in the past six months, from seven to 13. The Washington-based Leapfrog Group sets the grades nationwide
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