Grantees

Supported the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence in building the state’s health professions workforce through the Nursing Faculty Retention and Recruitment Program, including a nursing faculty educational loan repayment program.

Expanded the ability of 14 community health clinics and local public health agencies to provide timely preventive, primary, oral and behavioral health care for children in medically underserved areas. Learn more.

Supported The Bell Policy Center in advocating for fiscal and policy changes to improve the health care system through “Looking Forward,” a collaborative project with the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, Colorado Children’s Campaign, and other funders and nonprofit advocacy organizations.

Provided leadership development training for Coloradans to better enable them to advocate for an improved health care system and implement policies that expand access to health.

Educated the business community about health care issues and engaged business leaders in seeking solutions on how to expand and improve access to health.

Supported consumer training in advocacy through five regional AHEC centers statewide focusing on policy changes to expand access to health.

Given the various options to expand health coverage—whether through an individual mandate requiring everyone to purchase health insurance or any plan to expand coverage through low-cost insurance products—the Colorado Center on Law & Policy conducted an affordability study to help policymakers, health advocates and consumers understand the factors that influence Coloradans’ ability to pay for health coverage.

Supported the Colorado Children’s Campaign in developing a health cost model and advocating for fiscal and policy changes to improve the health care system through “Looking Forward,” a collaborative project with the Bell Policy Center and Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, as well as other funders and nonprofit advocacy organizations.

Supported the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative‘s work to increase awareness and educate health consumers statewide about barriers to health access, and strengthen advocacy efforts for policy changes to increase access to health care.

The department conducted the 2008 Colorado Statewide Household Survey to understand state-specific uninsurance and underinsurance rates, as well as factors that influence and are associated with these rates, to inform state policy decisions related to insurance and establish baseline data by which the state can monitor progress in expanding health coverage.