/PRNewswire/ MDVIP, the market leader in personalized healthcare with a network of over 1,100 physicians nationwide, today announced that Elizabeth B..
By TAMARA MARKARD | Greeley Tribune | Published: February 14, 2021 (Tribunes News Service) As suicide continues to be a primary concern for mental health care providers, a Fort Collins, Colorado, nonprofit organization is focusing on trying to lower suicide rates in military veterans. The Healing Warriors Program, founded by Ana Pallés Yelen and Rochelle Poland, is working to bring awareness to free services offered to veterans of all ages in hopes of lowering veteran suicides in Colorado. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the average number of veteran suicides per day in 2018 was 17.6, totaling 6,435 deaths. Nearly 60,000 veterans currently live in northern Colorado with that number climbing as more service members are discharged.