Colorado Public Radio reports on a partnership between Memorial Health System and Peak Vista Community Health Centers that attempts to help people who use the Emergency Department for non-emergent care find doctors. You can listen to the report here: ER Diversion story

A regional director for TRICARE, the federal insurance program for the military, will speak to the Citizens’ Commission today about Memorial. Memorial is the largest health care provider for military families west of the Mississippi after the military itself.  Also speaking today will be the dean emeritus for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Beth-El [...]

As usual, I’ll be live blogging from the Citizens’ Commission today. The agenda was just sent out; there are no presentations today, just committee reports and comments. Might sound a bit boring, but sometimes the most interesting items can come from random remarks or questions. Each week a fair number of you are reading the live [...]

In less than three months this blog has attracted roughly 25,000 unique page views, 6,800 absolute unique visitors, and earned 250 subscribers. This blog is now second in traffic only to memorialhealthsystem.com. Even better, most of you are spending at least two minutes to read or comment before you move on to something else (a decent amount of time by Web standards). Several posts have generated [...]