Colorado Community Health Network

Voting by mail?
Make sure your ballot for the primary election is in the mail by June 22, so it arrives before the 7:00 p.m. deadline on June 30 and is counted.

If you’re worried about the deadline, drop off your ballot in-person at a polling location or Drop Box: https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VIP.html

Track the status of your ballot here: https://colorado.ballottrax.net/voter/

Going to a farmer’s market, community event, or grocery store this weekend? You might see people collecting signatures to get issues on Colorado’s ballot.

One of those issues is the Graduated Income Tax (initiative 195), which is a way to raise more money for health care, childcare, and schools by increasing taxes a little bit for folks who make more than $500K a year. For everyone else, it would lower taxes.

Read more, learn how you might be impacted, and find a place to add your signature:

Graduated Income Tax Colorado | Protect Colorado's Future Learn about Colorado's proposed graduated income tax (GIT), compare it to Colorado's current flat tax system, and understand its impact on Colorado families and communities.

Primary elections might not get as much press as general elections, but they’re just as important. Make sure you’re registered and ready to vote on June 30:

Get Vote Ready - Vot-ER Are you ready to vote? Register, check your voter registration, request a mail-in ballot, and find out what’s on your ballot. The decisions we make in the upcoming election will impact our health for years to come. Get ready to vote with Vot-ER and use your vote to advocate for healthy communities...

Colorado’s Primary Elections are on June 30.

For each race, primaries decide one person from each major party (like Republican, Democratic) to run on the ballot in the general election.

Make sure you’re ready to vote: https://vote.health/cochn

As a member of the Mind Our Future coalition, CCHN staff attended a forum for several candidates who are running for Governor hosted by Children’s Hospital Colorado and Healthier Colorado. The Mind Our Future Campaign is an initiative bringing attention and priority to the youth mental health crisis.

Each of the candidates spoke of their commitment to Colorado kids and offered their ideas to address the crucial issue of youth mental health if they become governor.

https://www.mindourfuturecolorado.com/

“Colorado’s health care is not a political talking point — it is about people. It is a patient at a Community Health Center receiving affordable care from a team who knows their history. It is a family that can afford to take a sick child to the doctor rather than wait and hope.”

Ross Brooks, CEO of Colorado Community Health Network (CCHN), and Beverly Razon, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at COPIC Companies, co-authored an op-ed in Colorado Politics highlighting the issues currently facing our health care system, and calling on the state government and other partners to collaborate on patient-centered solutions.

CCHN and Copic are both members of the Colorado Health Policy Forum, a coalition of consumer advocates, safety net providers, hospitals, health plans, and physicians.

Colorado’s health care cuts are painful — what comes next could be worse | PODIUM By Ross Brooks and Beverly Razon Last December, a broad coalition of consumer advocates, safety net providers, hospitals, health plans and physicians statewide published a warning: our state was facing a health care crisis, and fragmented policymaking would make it harder to solve. These members of....

When a patient walks through the doors of a Community Health Center, they are seen as a “whole person” not just for the complaint they came in with. This means that doctors, therapists, and dentists are all working together to make sure their patients are healthy and set up to thrive. This is called integrated care.

On Wednesday, Community Health Center clinicians and leaders from across Colorado met to talk about innovative practices, engage in creative problem solving, and highlight the meaningful patient outcomes of integrated care.

Special gratitude to those who presented and shared your stories.

Did you know that Community Health Centers (CHCs) in Colorado offer robust maternal health care? CHCs, who serve about one in seven Coloradans, are located in every part of the state – filling the widening gaps in maternal health care, especially in rural areas.

Yesterday, CHCs met to share innovations and swap ideas about maternal health care in Colorado. Special gratitude to CHC staff who shared their stories, and Steve Holloway, Director of the Primary Care Office and Health Access Branch Chief at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, for joining us to share data on maternal care adequacy.

Sincere gratitude to Dr. Asad Bandealy, Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Office of Quality Improvement at the Bureau of Primary Health Care under the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for joining us on a tour of Peak Vista Community Health Centers yesterday.

We value your partnership, curiosity, and willingness for creative problem solving. We were proud to introduce you to some of the nurses, providers, dentists, administrative staff, and care coordinators who, together, make Community Health Centers such a unique model for high-quality, integrated primary care.

We’re proud to partner with Health Career Connection (HCC) to grow the next generation of Colorado’s health leaders. HCC is an organization building pathways for emerging health leaders and connecting them to meaningful careers in community health.

Together, we’re investing in people, strengthening Community Health Centers, and expanding access to care across Colorado. Partner with HCC and become an internship host organization by April 29th.