Live Free or Die if You Must, Say Colorado Urbanites — But Not in My Hospital
By Rae Ellen Bichell
December 29, 2020
KFF Health News Original
In a fracas between a largely rural county and neighboring cities, class and politics are just as relevant as the coronavirus. People are getting “stupid and mean,” as one mayor put it.
At Colorado’s Rural Edges, Vaccines Help Assisted Living Homes Crack Open the Doors
By Rae Ellen Bichell
January 28, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Amid the disorganization and confusion of the vaccine distribution, smaller communities may have an advantage. In some long-term care facilities where vaccination is underway, things are looking up.
Mientras Colorado avanza una ley que garantiza su acceso a atención médica, trabajadores agrícolas recuerdan el maltrato que sufren
By Esther Honig Rae Ellen Bichell
June 11, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Colorado está a punto de aprobar una ley para que los trabajadores del campo puedan acceder a atención médica, algo que muchos empleadores al parecer no permiten.
Farmworkers Recall Mistreatment as Colorado Aims to Guarantee Medical Access
By Esther Honig Rae Ellen Bichell
June 11, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Agricultural workers living in employer-owned housing can have trouble getting health care. It’s symptomatic of bigger gaps in worker protections that the pandemic spotlighted, say proponents of a newly passed Colorado bill for farmworker rights.
Kidney Experts Say It’s Time to Remove Race From Medical Algorithms. Doing So Is Complicated.
By Rae Ellen Bichell Cara Anthony
June 8, 2021
KFF Health News Original
When estimating how well a patient’s kidneys are working, doctors frequently turn to an equation that depends on a question: Is the patient Black? Kidney experts are now debating how to remove the race adjustment and whether the question is a function of sound science. It’s considered just the first step in dismantling institutional racism in kidney care.
This Health Care Magnate Wants to Fix Democracy, Starting in Colorado
By Rae Ellen Bichell
December 14, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Kent Thiry, the former CEO of dialysis giant DaVita, has clear ideas about how democracy should work. By backing ballot measures in Colorado, he’s shaping the power of voters in that state.
Déjà Vu? Consumers Scramble for Covid Tests in Hard-Hit Areas
By Phil Galewitz Rachel Bluth Rae Ellen Bichell
August 6, 2021
KFF Health News Original
As the nation confronts the delta variant, many consumers are again facing delays getting tested. The problem appears most acute in the South and Midwest, where new infections are growing the fastest.
People Proving to Be Weakest Link for Apps Tracking COVID Exposure
By Rae Ellen Bichell
November 19, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Contact tracers in many states are stretched thin. Colorado is among the latest states to launch an app that aims to help, based on the COVID contact-tracing tool built by Apple and Google. But there’s a chicken-and-egg problem: More people will use them if they prove to work, but the apps become effective only if more people use them.
The Best COVID Warning System? Poop and Pooled Spit, Says One Colorado School
By Rae Ellen Bichell
November 3, 2020
KFF Health News Original
About 6% of large universities with in-person classes are routinely testing all students. For many institutions, that strategy is out of reach. To get ahead of the virus, Colorado State University is experimenting with a combination of sewage monitoring and a lesser-known approach to pool testing.
Dialysis Industry Spends Millions, Emerges as Power Player in California Politics
By Samantha Young
December 10, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Over the past four years, the dialysis industry has spent $233 million on both political offense and defense in California. Most of it went toward protecting its revenues against ballot initiatives, but the industry also strategically worked the corridors of the state Capitol.
In Los Angeles and Beyond, Oxygen Is the Latest Covid Bottleneck
By Rae Ellen Bichell Lauren Weber
January 7, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The oxygen delivery infrastructure is crumbling under pressure in Los Angeles and other covid hot spots, jeopardizing patients’ access to precious air and limiting hospital turnover.
Need a COVID-19 Nurse? That’ll Be $8,000 a Week
By Markian Hawryluk Rae Ellen Bichell
November 24, 2020
KFF Health News Original
A shortage of nurses has turned hospital staffing into a sort of national bidding war, with hospitals willing to pay exorbitant wages to secure the nurses they need. That threatens to shift the supply of nurses toward more affluent areas.
Helping Ex-Inmates Stay Out Of The ER Brings Multiple Benefits
By Rae Ellen Bichell, NPR News
December 6, 2016
KFF Health News Original
Each year, millions of Americans leave jail and prison. When they do, they’re likely to have a hard time managing their health. Some clinics are trying to provide ex-inmates with better, cheaper care.
KFF Health News Staff
May 29, 2014
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Elisabeth Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief, joined KFF Health News in September 2016 after 22 years as a correspondent with The New York Times, where she covered a variety of beats from health care to environment and did a stint in the Beijing bureau. While in China, she covered SARS, bird flu, and the emergence of HIV/AIDS in […]
