Spencer Fortier

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Colorado Primary Care Office

New data reveals where Coloradans travel for care and how to strengthen rural health resources. What if we could understand health care access not by static maps or administrative borders, but by the actual routes Coloradans take to receive care? With this understanding, we could focus investments in places where Read more

By Spencer Fortier, ago
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Colorado Safety Net Collaborative (CSNC)

Over the past year, Colorado has seen a noticeable increase in uninsured patients visiting community clinics.  In partnership with the Colorado Safety Net Collaborative (CSNC), CIVHC began an evaluation data request to understand what happened to more than 500,000 Coloradans who were disenrolled during the Medicaid unwinding. With protections from Read more

By Spencer Fortier, ago

CIVHC

  There are variety of topics that we may choose to avoid discussing with our loved ones, with death being at the top of the list. While death is inevitable, the way we prepare for it does not have to be uncomfortable or uncertain. Advanced care planning (ACP) has become a Read more

By Spencer Fortier, ago
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CIVHC’s First Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Highlights Racial and Geographic Disparities in End-of-Life Care for Coloradans

The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) is proud to announce the publication of its first internally led research project in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Titled “Disparities in End-of-Life Care: A Retrospective Study on Intensive Care Utilization and Advance Care Planning in the Colorado Read more

By Spencer Fortier, ago