Author: Catherine Strode

For the past 20 years, Denver Urban Gardens has helped design, build and sustain an expanding network of 150 community gardens throughout the metro area. This year, the organization has 12 new garden projects under construction and is offering technical assistance to other community garden projects around the state. In an interview with Catherine Strode,…

Promoting policies that support oral health for all Coloradans, on the federal, state, and local levels, is the work of Oral Health Colorado. Currently, the eight-year-old advocacy organization is focused on retaining Denver Water’s policy of water fluoridation. In an interview with Catherine Strode, executive director Deborah Foote says the Denver Water Board Commissioners’ Aug.…

As a recipient of the State Innovation Model grant, Colorado is playing a leading role determining how the future of health care might look. Focused on integrating care and payment innovations, the grant is one of many projects targeting health care in the state. In an interview with Catherine Strode, attorney Elisabeth Arenales of the…

Dr. Corry Robinson has served as Director of JFK Partners, an interdepartmental program of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the CU School of Medicine, for the past 22 years. In this role, she provided leadership as a clinician, researcher, and educator in the fields of Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders in children. At…

Jim García founded Clinica Tepeyac 23 years ago. A community-based health center, it provides primary and behavioral health care, and health education to Metro Denver’s medically underserved, predominantly Latino population. Many patients are undocumented. The clinic’s capacity has grown to handle 20,000 patient visits annually. In an interview with Catherine Strode, García discussed how he…

Over 1 million Coloradans are now receiving their medical care through enrollment in the Medicaid program. That figure represents 20 percent of the state’s population. In an interview with Catherine Strode, the director of Medicaid, Gretchen Hammer, explains how the cost of care is being contained with the rising enrollment rates. CS: How is the…