Author: MARKIAN HAWRYLUK Kaiser Health News
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As Colorado reels from another school shooting, study finds 1 in 4 teens have quick access to guns
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One in 4 Colorado teens reported they could get access to a loaded gun within 24 hours, according to survey results published Monday. Nearly half of those teens said it would take them less than 10 minutes. “That’s a lot of access and those are short periods of time,” said Virginia McCarthy, a doctoral candidate…
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Colorado’s psychedelics ballot initiative: 5 things to know
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Colorado could become the second state after Oregon to allow the use of certain psychedelic substances that are illegal under federal law. But while Oregon voters in 2020 approved the supervised use of psychedelic mushrooms, the citizen initiative on the Colorado ballot in November goes further. Proposition 122 would allow the personal use of psilocybin…
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Hospices have become big business for private equity firms, raising concerns about end-of-life care
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Hospice care, once provided primarily by nonprofit agencies, has seen a remarkable shift over the past decade, with more than two-thirds of hospices nationwide now operating as for-profit entities. The ability to turn a quick profit in caring for people in their last days of life is attracting a new breed of hospice owners: private…
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Physicians are uneasy as Colorado collects providers’ diversity data
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Shaunti Meyer, a certified nurse-midwife and medical director at STRIDE Community Health Center locations in the Denver metro area, doesn’t usually disclose her sexual orientation to patients. But at times, it feels appropriate. After telling a transgender patient that she is a lesbian, Meyer learned the woman had recently taken four other trans women, all…
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Wildfires and omicron prompt a special health insurance enrollment period in Colorado
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A wildfire displaced thousands of Coloradans just as the omicron surge began sweeping through the state, so health insurance was likely not on many people’s minds when the regular enrollment period for the state’s health insurance marketplace ended Saturday. But now, because of those twin emergencies, everyone in the state will get another chance to…
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How one rural town without a pharmacy is crowdsourcing to get meds
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WALDEN – The building that once housed the last drugstore in this town of fewer than 600 is now a barbecue restaurant, where pit boss Larry Holtman dishes out smoked brisket and pulled pork across the same counter where pharmacists dispensed vital medications more than 30 years ago. It’s an hourlong drive over treacherous mountain passes…
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Need a COVID-19 Nurse? That’ll Be $8,000 a Week
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In March, Claire Tripeny was watching her dream job fall apart. She’d been working as an intensive care nurse at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, and loved it, despite the mediocre pay typical for the region. But when COVID-19 hit, that calculation changed. She remembers her employers telling her and her colleagues to “suck it up”…
