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The University of Colorado Hospital at the Anschutz Medical Campus and the Poudre Valley Health System are exploring joining forces to create a nonprofit health care system. Bruce Schroffel, UCH’s president and chief executive, and Poudre Valley Health System CEO Rulon Stacey said Thursday they’ve signed a letter of intent to explore a joint operating agreement. They said they are optimistic...

, one of the 10 largest architecture, planning, engineering, interior design, and program management firms in the United States, is now permanently located at 2000 South Colorado Boulevard, Annex, Suite 300 in Denver, Colorado. The firm opened an office in a temporary location in August 2007. LEO A DALY currently employs more than 1,100 architects, planners, engineers and interior designers in 25 offices...

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), on the other hand, pointed to the 700 people in his state with serious medical problems who already found insurance under the law. "Who goes to these people," the governor said in an interview, "and tells them, ‘Sorry, a judge in Florida has decided we now need to put you out in the cold?’ " Wisconsin and Colorado are among the...

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), on the other hand, pointed to the 700 people in his state with serious medical problems who already found insurance under the law. "Who goes to these people," the governor said in an interview, "and tells them, ‘Sorry, a judge in Florida has decided we now need to put you out in the cold?’ " Wisconsin and Colorado are among the...

Posted: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:00 am By LORETTA SWORD | lorettas@chieftain.com | 0 comments Parkview Medical Center on Monday honored a man whose greatest loves included the hospital — and water sculpture.   During an evening ceremony that included civic and business leaders as well as Parkview administrators and board members, the sleek vertical water fountain that greets visitors...

What matters most to Coloradans about health care? We want to know that the care we receive from a doctor, nurse or other health care provider is high quality. We also want to be able to get an appointment to see our doctor in a reasonable amount of time. And we want to know that the health care we receive is affordable — an increasing challenge as health insurance premiums continue to grow...

Children’s Hospital will lose $7 million in medical student training money under President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for next year. The Obama budget, a starting point in the debate that will be under further cutting pressure from Republicans, wipes out a national pediatric training program. Children’s, on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, has received an average of $7 million...

Gov. Bill Ritter will forever be linked with wind farms and the “new-energy economy” that was his mantra. But more subtle — and some argue more personal — than the swirling turbines that cropped up on the Colorado plains during his four years as governor is Ritter’s legacy on health care. Health care advocates credit the Ritter administration with doing more to expand...

Candice Hermeler, the surviving Australian twin from last week’s double suicide pact at a Colorado shooting range, has been discharged from hospital….