Author: JENNY DEAM
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Report: None of Colorado’s largest hospitals are in compliance with federal pricing transparency law
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In January 2021, a federal law went into effect that mandated the nation’s hospitals provide clear and easily accessible online pricing information so the public can know in advance how much a treatment costs. To backers, the idea was to finally penetrate the murkiness of health-care charges to not only help patients make good choices…
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Colorado’s wealthiest hospitals favored in $1.2 billion COVID bailout
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Three years ago, as a mysterious and deadly virus called COVID-19 began to take hold in Colorado, hospital executives in the state scrambled to formulate plans, meeting weekly – sometimes daily – with elected officials, public health experts and with each other to get ahead of the coming storm they feared could overwhelm and financially…
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Colorado care worker sentenced to 60 days in jail for assisted-living facility death
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Colorado Watch logo-new A care worker on duty the day Hazel Place died after being left unattended for six hours in 100-degree weather at a Grand Junction assisted living facility was sentenced to 60 days in county jail on Monday in Mesa County district court. Jamie Johnston, 32, was also sentenced to three years of…
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They were told their mother’s death was peaceful. It was all a lie. Questions persist about Colorado’s oversight of assisted living industry
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Donna Golden had slipped into pajamas and was watching the news the night it all began. She was exhausted. The heat had been excruciating that day, topping 100 degrees in Grand Junction and prompting the National Weather Service to issue its first-ever excessive heat warning for the region. A little past 10 p.m. on June…
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Red flag laws are only as effective as the frequency with which they get used
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Almost immediately after Anderson Lee Aldrich was identified as the suspect in the Club Q mass shooting, the 22-year-old was linked to a 2021 bomb threat in a Colorado Springs neighborhood where a person with the same name and birthdate was arrested on multiple counts of kidnapping and felony menacing after threatening to blow up…
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‘It doesn’t stop:’ Victims of past attacks on LGBTQ clubs relive the horror
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Christine Leinonen awoke Sunday morning and puttered about her Polk City, Fla., house completely unaware of the tragedy unfolding half a nation way in Colorado, one terrifying in its similarity to the mass shooting six years ago at an Orlando nightclub that took the life of her son and 48 others. She did notice her…
