Health Care

The rural healthcare shortage has hit some tribal nations especially hard. One tribe in Nevada has found a solution: a doctor’s office on wheels.

Caregiving experts are warning people about elderspeak, which tends to talk down to older adults and can be controlling and demeaning. Many elders see endearments as insincere and a way to be bossy.

The big union bill, a resolution forcing a lawsuit aimed at dismantling the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and Gov. Jared Polis signature housing measure are all still pending with just five days left in Colorado’s 2025 legislative session.

The Trump administration issued an executive order in January restricting federal funding to institutions that provide gender-affirming health care for patients under 19 years old. The state of Colorado has joined a lawsuit challenging that decision, but transgender teenagers remain worried about their access to health care.

Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic lawmakers want to cap state insurance payments to hospitals, but providers say they're already operating in the red.

Dr. Charles Frankum is one of the rare few medical specialists who pilots around rural Colorado and Kansas to provide medical services in hard-to-reach areas.

Health system collaborates with community partners as it plans to open Precourt Healing Center this spring.

Insurers were supposed to start covering recreational prosthetics on Jan. 1, but the state is still deciding how to implement the law

Hospitals yank services as threat of withheld federal funding looms

They would use the money saved on payments to hospitals to reinvest in the state’s community health centers, which serve some of the state’s poorest people.