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At Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities and forward progress. Read Article

As Noble Prize-winning author and part-time marine biologist John Steinbeck wrote in a marvelous journal he kept as he and companion Ed Ricketts collected samples of marine life up and down the Gulf of California (aka the “Sea of Cortez), “It is advisable to look from the tide-pool to the stars to the tidepool again.”  Read Article

I cannot for the life of me remember making a New Year’s Resolution.  And I didn’t this year. Read Article

As you, hopefully, get to slow down a bit for a period of reflection and renewal throughout this  celebratory season, we also hope you can look back at 2021 with satisfaction and a sense of achievement in matters both professional and personal, Read Article

The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care, driven in Colorado by the Colorado Business Group on Health (CBGH), announced today the Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. Read Article

In the poignant 1971 movie Fiddler on the Roof about life in a Jewish community of a pre-revolutionary Russian village, there is a scene where Reb Tevye intervenes between two men arguing heatedly over a goat (or perhaps a mule). Read Article

State Led Health Reform: Shared Strategies and Lessons - Back in early 2020, when we first began planning for our now thrice-delayed 2021 Annual Forum, we looked around the country to see what was happening at either the Federal level or the State level. Read Article

Most employers that self-fund their employee health benefit plans do so in order to “drive the bus.”   And, of course, self-funding does give employers more control over benefits.  Read Article

Greenwich Biosciences is focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel therapeutics from its propriety cannabinoid product platform. Our enduring commitment to scientific rigor and exacting pharmaceutical manufacturing standards enables us to bring forward plant-derived cannabinoid prescription medicines for patients. We are the first and only company to pursue and receive FDA approval for a plant-derived […] Read Article

Medical experts agree, and research has demonstrated, that the overuse of cesarean sections, episiotomies, and early elective deliveries can unnecessarily increase risks – some of which are both serious and long-term - to both mothers and babies Read Article

As a literature major in the turbulent 1960s, it would have been impossible to have avoided the French existentialistic philosopher and author Jean Paul Sartre.  “Nausea,” “Being and Nothingness,” and “No Exit” were the sorts of things that could keep like-minded college students up until very late.  Well, that and partying.   Oftentimes both. Read Article

Mesa County Valley School District 51 is the largest school district on the Western Slope of Colorado and the 14th largest school district in the state. Read Article