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Denver judge once again made incorrect ruling in 7-year-old billing dispute
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For the second time in under a year, the Colorado Supreme Court overturned a Denver judge’s order in a long-running civil lawsuit over hospital billing practices that has yet to reach trial. Justice Richard L. Gabriel, in the court’s April 14 opinion, observed there continues to be a misunderstanding about the information relevant to deciding…
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Colorado Supreme Court returns 3 cases to trial courts with instructions
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The Colorado Supreme Court decided three appeals this month in ongoing civil and criminal cases, either overturning trial judges’ faulty decisions or providing clarification for further proceedings. Although most of the Supreme Court’s decisions come at the conclusion of a case and after the Court of Appeals has rendered its ruling, the justices sometimes elect…
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Federal judge to Centura: Stop withholding raises from union nurses in Longmont
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A federal judge earlier this month ordered Centura Health to stop its pattern of withholding increases in pay and benefits for the group of nurses who formed a labor union at its hospital in Longmont. The National Labor Relations Board accused Centura, now known as CommonSpirit, of violating federal law and interfering with workers’ right…
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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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What’s next for Colorado hospitals, health care with staffing as COVID-19 pandemic ebbs?
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When the pandemic began two years ago, many policymakers and health officials worried over hospital capacity. Did hospitals – here and across the country – have enough beds to meet the expected flood of COVID-19 patients? As the pandemic wore on, the concern shifted away from beds themselves and toward the doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and…
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First new Colorado law of 2018 could help nurses travel to and from other states
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What very well could be the first bill to pass in the next legislative session holds some mighty big stakes for Colorado’s more than 86,000 nurses who have licenses that allow them to work in more than two dozen other states. A group of legislators were meeting with nurses at the state Capitol Thursday about…
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Assisted suicide gets a ‘no’ — and then a ‘heck no’ — from the church
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Terminally ill patients who invoke Colorado’s new law permitting physician-assisted suicide will, of course, need a place to carry out the act. And their loved ones likely will want a funeral. To which the Catholic Church responds: Don’t expect much help from us. Not only have two of the state’s largest hospital systems, both Catholic-affiliated, opted…
