Medical Service

Partnership aims to wipe out $270,000 in medical debt in Southwest Colorado

Effort will spread $2 million in forgiveness around the state

DATE: Apr 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Podiatrist finds natural healing power

Tissue from donated placenta brings relief to patients with chronic wounds

DATE: Mar 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

In outdoor meccas, medical helicopters save lives

Regular training sessions help first responders sharpen skills

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Animas Surgical Hospital sees room to grow

‘We’re bursting at the seams’

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business

Direct-care health plan aids small manufacturers in Durango area

Plan combines direct primary care and supplemental policies

DATE: May 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business

Southwest Health System fires three top leaders

Cortez health agency cites ‘change in leadership direction’

DATE: Apr 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Video linkup allows children with Down syndrome to visit Denver doctors

Family with 10 children, 5 who have Down syndrome, visit doctors online

DATE: Feb 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Doctor’s suspension has substance-abuse patients struggling

Local clinic fielding ‘dozens’ of calls from Dr. Deborah Parr’s patients

DATE: Jul 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Nursing homes turn to eviction to drop difficult patients

NEW YORK – Nursing homes are increasingly evicting their most challenging residents, advocates for the aged and disabled say, testing protections for some of society’s most vulnerable. ...

DATE: May 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Womb transplant recipient grateful for chance at pregnancy

CLEVELAND – The recipient of the nation’s first uterus transplant said Monday that she prayed for years to be able to bear a child, and is grateful to the deceased donor’s family and surgeon...

DATE: Mar 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Task force: Mammograms an option at 40, do more good at 50

WASHINGTON – Mammograms do the most good later in life, a government task force declared Monday in recommending that women get one every other year starting at age 50. It said 40-somethings ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Charity health care hard to come by for undocumented immigrants

Eduardo Franco Ramirez was attacked so viciously by muggers near his home in Aurora in September 2013 that the police on the scene thought he had died. The Guatemalan constructio...

DATE: Apr 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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