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Lawmakers give bill allowing hospital visits another chance after heartbreaking testimony from families affected by COVID
Richard Gillham, a resident of Peetz in northern Logan County, was a farmer all his life. Rim Ranch, which his family owns, is one of Colorado’s Centennial farms, a designation awarded to farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years. He loved his wife of 48 years, Nita, and adored…
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Colorado-based health care provider for seniors sanctioned over failure to deliver services
In twin actions, federal and state officials on Thursday suspended enrollment by elderly Coloradans with the state’s largest provider of community-based home health care after concluding the company failed to deliver medically necessary services to patients. Officials with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) told the president and CEO of Denver-based InnovAge on Wednesday that the agency…
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Colorado state hospital at Pueblo wins back its federal funding
The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo has won yet another reprieve on its federal funding from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The state mental hospital was threatened with termination of its federal Medicaid and Medicare payments after failing an inspection Feb. 22. The hospital also failed a follow-up inspection on June…