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UNC Medical School Looks to Bring More Doctors to Rural Colorado
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The Denver Gazette, Approved, Local

UNC Medical School Looks to Bring More Doctors to Rural Colorado

By Hap Fry | The Denver Gazette Editor’s Note: Colorado’s healthcare system is entering a period of accelerating instability — a “tsunami,” as multiple leaders describe it — driven by collapsing hospital finances, shrinking Medicaid reimbursements, disappearing services and a political fight over who is responsible for this unraveling. Healthcare Freefall is a multipart series examining how Colorado arrived at this moment, what H.R. 1 will do next and why communities across the state are bracing for deeper shocks. Be it Thanksgiving, Christmas or the Fourth of July, Longenecker could always bank on someone arriving at her family’s doorstep in Limeport, Penn.  More often than not, those visitors would be locals from the area with no family ties — other than the fac...
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Riess: Give rural patients more choices, rural providers more flexibility
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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, State, Top Stories

Riess: Give rural patients more choices, rural providers more flexibility

By Naomi Riess | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Healthcare access in rural Colorado is not an abstract policy debate. It is about whether a family can find a primary-care provider, an expectant mother can receive care close to home, or a patient ends up in an emergency room because there was no timely alternative. In Southwest Colorado, we know the problem: too few providers, long waits, financial pressure on clinics and hospitals, and a system too often designed around the Front Range. In 2027, I would pursue a practical, bipartisan Rural Colorado Primary Care Access Act built around four principles: access, provider capacity, sustainability and flexibility. My proposal would build on ideas in HB26-1096, Colorado Medicaid Access to Primary Care Services, considered by th...
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