From the CEO

There are many obstacles that rural healthcare face each and every day. The following initiatives are areas that I am passionate about educating our state and national legislative members about the roadblocks these measures impose. Please note by each measure is a link to more information. Believe understanding is improved from reliable information.

Key Initiatives: Federal & State

  • Access to Capital, Rural Health calls for a new, bipartisan, Hill-Burton Act to repair crumbling infrastructure. Rural lives depend on it.

  • Read more

  • End Medicare Sequestration of Critical Access Funding

  • NHRA Policy Paper

  • Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, how they refuse to pay hurt patients. MA is a plan that fails the patient.

  • Learn more

  • Long Term Care included on Medicare Cost Report

  • AMA Press Release

  • Strengthen bipartisan support of Hospital facility fees

  • HFMA Legislation Facts

  • Prioritize rural healthcare to support VA patients

  • Returning Veteran's Health

  • Colorado Trauma level designation is outdated it hurts patients and Hospitals.

  • CO Rules and Regs for Trauma levels

Additional resources are available through our regional and national partners:

Colorado Hospital Transformation Program

National Rural Health Association

NRHA Advocacy

NHRA Resources

Eastern Plains Consortium