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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

Established in 1996, this year the Colorado Business Group on Health is celebrating our 25th year. (“Celebrating” is a bit over-the-top. We’ll probably have lunch at Olive Garden.) Here are a few of the things that have happened and/or changed in the intervening quarter-century… Read Article

Genentech is a biotechnology company dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. Read Article

Out of the thick dust cloud caused by Haven Healthcare’s recent implosion, a key question about US healthcare once again rises: Can free market principles create greater value for patients and purchasers? Can our adored “free market” approach make healthcare more reliable? More affordable? Or will it continue to “foster inefficiency and “erode quality?” Read Article

As it is with men, so it is with properly functioning marketplaces: enlightened purchasers of a proactive nature can alter a given market’s course, and thus, the “foreshadowed ends” which will otherwise come about. Read Article

The independent grading system assigns "A" "B," "C," "D," and "F” letter grades to over 2600 general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. based on their ability to protect patients from avoidable errors, injuries, accidents and infections.   Read Article

At the RAND web site you can find a full report or Click here for the report, an interactive map, and a downloadable Excel file with the entire database for all of the 46 States that are included in this year’s analysis of 3,000 US Medicare-certified short-stay hospitals for which they had sufficient data (e.g., 50 or more inpatient claims […] Read Article

The word “ambiguous” means something very different than I thought. I thought it meant “unclear,” or “imprecise,” or perhaps “subject to interpretation.” It doesn’t. It actually refers to something can have two alternative meanings or mean two entirely different things. (Think “ambidextrous.”) As such, an ambiguous word can misinform and even mislead. Read Article

The Overwhelming, Increasingly Self-Imposed Healthcare Cost Burden Employers Bear Read Article

For the last 30 years, the way we’ve purchased healthcare and provided health benefits has provided powerful financial incentives for hospitals to consolidate into financially-focused health juggernauts that have almost single-mindedly chased the rewards of highly compensated services and elective procedures. Read Article

“The U.S. spends at least 7 percent more of its GDP on health care than other rich countries, on average, leaving us with less to spend on infrastructure and defense, houses and education, and other worthwhile governmental and personal pursuits. And we have little to show for it.” Read Article

A total of 40 Colorado hospitals received grades. “A” represents the best Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, followed in order by “B,” “C,” “D,” and “F. 16 Colorado hospitals received an “A” grade, 9 hospitals received a “B” grade, 13 hospitals received a “C” grade, 2 hospitals received a “D” grade a no hospitals in Colorado received an “F” grade. Read Article