Conducted by the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care with support from The Colorado Trust, this 2009 scan provides an inventory of patient safety initiatives, educational programs, research, advocacy and public awareness campaigns in Colorado.
Highlights the following Trust initiatives: Colorado 100k Lives Campaign, Equality in Health, Partnerships for Health, Health Professions and Advancing Colorado's Mental Health Care, as well as announcements of new publications and The Trust’s efforts on behalf of the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Highlights include an overview of The Trust's statewide grantee conference, including comments from keynote speaker Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone. This edition also pays tribute to John R. Moran, Jr., The Trust's departing President and CEO, and introduces his successor, Irene M. Ibarra. Additionally, the newsletter welcomes three community members to The Trust's Investment and Audit committees.
Highlights The Trust's Bullying Prevention and Colorado School Health Improvement efforts, and focuses on strengthening patient care and safety through the Colorado 5 Million Lives Campaign. Featured publications include: Solving Colorado’s Health Professions Shortage – Initial Lessons Learned from the Health Professions Initiative Evaluation; Gatekeepers: Helping to Prevent Suicide in Colorado; The Importance of Culture in Evaluation: a Practical Guide for Evaluators; and Equality in Health: An Annotated Bibliography with Resources on Health Disparities and Cultural and Linguistic Competency.
As part of The Trust's strategies to improve health systems and expand Colorado's health care workforce, this newsletter highlights the efforts of the following grantees: Partnership for a Healthy Colorado, Rocky Mountain Youth Clinics and the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence. The newsletter further describes a new bullying prevention resource and links to the 2007 Annual Report.
This edition of The Colorado Trust's quarterly newsletter features two grantees—Doctors Care and Rocky Mountain Youth Clinics—that are working to increase the availability of care. Additional articles highlight the San Luis Valley's new Health Access Program, and link to The Trust's 2008 Annual Report. Also presented is a model for evaluating advocacy efforts, and details about new Trust website and social media features.
Barbara Coloroso, author of The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander, headlines this newsletter edition announcing The Trust’s Bullying Prevention initiative. Other articles highlight The Trust’s Health Professions initiative and Colorado 100k Lives Campaign, as well as the availability of Smart Chart, an online communications planning tool.
Highlights the progress of the Safe2Tell hotline, an anonymous reporting system to help youth prevent violence. There is also news about the planned retirement of John R. Moran, Jr., President and CEO; an upcoming event focused on substance abuse among women and girls; recognition of young people in Roaring Fork Valley schools for their successful bullying prevention efforts; and information about The Trust's 2005 Annual Report.
Highlights include a message from Irene M. Ibarra, President and CEO, about improving kids’ access to health care; a look at the rural health track program at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center's School of Medicine; an announcement that a survey of Colorado Baby Boomers is underway; an update on The Trust's Bullying Prevention effort; and an announcement of the report Kids’ Health Care Access: Diagnosis and Prescription for Improvement. This edition also includes an interview with retired Trustee Sister Lillian Murphy and a tribute to founding Trustee Bill Beattie.
Highlights include a grantee story on practicing medicine in rural Colorado. Other articles focus on building Colorado's health professions workforce; a "Scopes of Care" study that's underway; The Trust's support of the Frontline film Sick Around the World; an Equality in Health grantee as the recipient of the 2008 John R. Moran, Jr. Leadership Award; and a tribute to Dr. Donald Fink, a founding Trustee. Also included are overviews of several publications: Governor’s Dialogue on Health Care Vision and Values; Colorado Baby Boomers: Challenges and Opportunities, and Immigrant Integration Educator Resource Guide.
An interactive, searchable database of all of The Trust’s publications from its 30 years of serving Coloradans.
