Before COVID-19, telemedicine was practiced by many health systems, but seeing patients in person was still the norm.
Within a few short weeks in March 2020, health systems and practices were forced to adopt new ways of seeing patients and delivering care.
Although face-to-face visits will always be a part of health care, thereâs no going back, providers say.Â
There are still obstacles that need to be overcome â especially when it comes to insurance coverage and access.
Nevertheless, the pandemic is spurring advances in delivery of patient care that might otherwise have taken years to develop.
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âPre-COVID, we were interested in making telehealth part of our five-year plan,â said Dr. Christopher Davis, UCHealth emergency medicine physician and medical director of virtual health. âThat was critical when COVID hit in March, because we had infrastructure in place that we could rapidly scale rather than building from scratch.â
Eight of Colorado’s most exceptional leaders of 2020 have been awarded Governor’s Citizenship Medals, state officials announced Tuesday.
The leadership development group CiviCO teamed up with Gov. Jared Polis to honor seven individuals and one organization for providing much-needed leadership in an unprecedented year that included a global pandemic and widespread civic unrest.
“These eight remarkable leaders have paved the way for community advancement and put Colorado on the map for how individuals and organizations serve their communities and make statewide impact,” Polis said in a news release.
The recipients will be feted at a virtual event as part of Colorado Leadership Month, the release stated.
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A look back at Colorados communities
12/30/2020 The year 2020 changed life as we know it, for now, but life went on in Colorado despite the challenges 2020 brought. Here is a look at some of the stories published in La Voz community section.
Throughout the year, La Voz covered numerous health issues other than COVID-19, including the mental health of children, diabetes, cancer, heart and other health issues that Latinos face.
Currently, Colorado needs early childhood mental health consultants. While Hispanics are 10 percent less likely to have coronary heart disease than non-Hispanic whites, the combination of heart disease and strokes is deadly in Colorado. However, it is estimated that at least 200,000 deaths from heart disease and strokes in the United States
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Betty Torres, 38, of Denver, walks at Garfield Lake Park in Denver one afternoon. Torres was diagnosed and hospitalized with COVID-19 back in March and has mostly recovered, but lost her grandfather to the virus and had it work its way through her entire family. Torres was scared to leave the house for a while after struggling to overcome COVID for fear of being exposed again.
By Tina Griego
Colorado News Collaborative
On Denver’s west side, an elderly man had been managing his solitude just fine until the pandemic hit, taking with it what social life he had and leaving in its place a loneliness he had not felt for years.