As introduced, House Bill 23-1215: Limit on Hospital Facility Fees would have catastrophic impacts on Colorado’s health care system. Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) and its member hospitals and health systems are raising the alarm about this legislation and its potential to harm patient access and health care affordability.
CHA released “Addressing Violence in Colorado Hospitals” – a look at the current trends of workplace violence in hospitals and health systems across the state. Colorado and national trends show that violence against health care workers is on the rise.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLO. – Jan. 11, 2023 – Today, Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) released the 2022 Colorado Hospital Industry Update, a statewide perspective of the
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLO. – Dec. 20, 2022 – This week, Colorado hospitals deactivated the Combined Hospital Transfer Center (CHTC), which had been activated since Nov.
Colorado hospitals and health systems activated Tier 1, the lowest level of activation, of the Combined Hospital Transfer Center (CHTC).
Recent reports show that Colorado hospital costs are better than national averages. In 2020, Coloradans spent $4 billion less than the national average on hospital care. Colorado households spend the second lowest amount on hospital costs in the country.
Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) congratulates Governor Polis and his administration on the launch of the Care Forward Colorado Program, which directs $26 million towards free entry-level training programs for health care workers.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLO. – Aug. 9, 2022 – Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) and Unite Us, one of the nation’s leading technology companies connecting health and
The CHA Board of Trustees has appointed Jeff Tieman as president and CEO. Tieman is currently the president and CEO of the Vermont Association of Hospitals & Health Systems (VAHHS), where he has served for nearly six years. Previously, he held critical roles as the chief of staff for the Catholic Health Association, one of the country’s largest networks of not-for-profit health care providers, and as the Washington bureau chief for Modern Healthcare Magazine.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLO. – April 21, 2022 – Colorado hospitals and health systems are supporting their workforce with significant investments currently totaling more than $1.02
It is unfortunate that CHA can’t fully comment on this report as the Association did not receive a prior copy. However, this report seems to pivot between thanking hospitals for all that they did while at the same time criticizing hospitals for their fiscal responsibility, including having savings that were critical to hospitals’ ability to serve Colorado communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Combined Hospital Transfer Center (CHTC), a statewide collaboration between hospitals and health systems across Colorado that was developed in 2020 and activated at two points during the COVID-19 pandemic to address rising hospitalizations and capacity challenges, was deactivated yesterday. During the recent activation for the surges of Delta and Omicron cases, the CHTC managed the transfers of more than 45,000 COVID-19 and non-COVID patients.