Achieving Access to Health for All Coloradans

The Colorado Trust is committed to work with others to ensure that all Coloradans have adequate health coverage and access to a responsive and comprehensive health care system, including an adequate supply of health care providers who deliver quality, affordable health care services. To achieve this vision, The Trust supports grantees in developing and implementing policies, programs and services that expand health coverage and improve and expand health care.

Expand Health Coverage
Health insurance is important to health status, yet it is unaffordable for hundreds of thousands of lower- and middle-income Coloradans. Trust grant strategies to expand health coverage to more Coloradans include:

• Research, develop and implement policies that control costs and increase access
• Strengthen and align diverse voices for health reform, including consumers, providers, and business and policy leaders
• Increase public awareness and build a strong base of support for access to health.

Increase Outreach & Enrollment
A confusing and lengthy enrollment process for Medicaid and CHP+ results in many
Coloradans who are eligible for coverage going without health care. Trust grant strategies to increase outreach and enrollment include:

• Simplify and streamline eligibility and enrollment processes for public insurance programs
• Develop and implement systems and policies to support continuous enrollment
• Strengthen and expand effective community outreach and enrollment programs.

Improve Health Systems
A complex, disjointed health care system results in costly waste and duplication of services,
making it difficult to navigate and often resulting in poor health outcomes. Trust grant strategies to improve health systems include:

• Provide comprehensive preventive services in a timely manner
• Align high quality, coordinated care with financial incentives for providers
• Strengthen the ability of health care sites and providers to meet standards of care.

Increase Availability of Care
Economic challenges to the safety-net system, insufficient availability of health care services across Colorado, and a shortage of health care providers make it difficult for some Coloradans to receive health care. Trust grant strategies to increase the availability of care include:

• Strengthen the viability of health care delivery sites and providers to serve uninsured, and publicly and privately insured Coloradans
• Ensure adequate points of access across the state for preventive, primary, oral and behavioral care
• Expand education, recruitment and retention programs and policies to increase the number of health care providers available to serve Coloradans.

Additional Programs
Since 1985, The Colorado Trust has worked closely with nonprofit organizations across the state to advance the health and well-being of the people of Colorado. The Trust continues to support a number of long-term programs that advance the health and well-being of Coloradans by integrating and coordinating health services, reducing racial and ethnic health disparities, strengthening immigrant integration and more.

Leadership Award
In honor of John R. Moran, Jr.'s long-time leadership of The Colorado Trust, a special fund of $250,000 established the John R. Moran, Jr. Grantee Leadership Award. Since 2007, one current Trust grantee has been selected annually to receive $25,000 in recognition of outstanding leadership to advance the health and well-being of the people within the community the grantee serves.