Staff at South Routt Medical Center were happy to get the official notice from U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper’s office that the facility has been approved for $2.3 million from congressionally directed spending for the center’s.
Ask community leaders if the medical needs of Routt County and beyond have been better served in the last five years of Yampa Valley Medical Center under the umbrella of UCHealth, and the answer seems.
After a 40-year medical career mostly serving rural Colorado and the Yampa Valley, Dr. Dan Smilkstein views his retirement this week not as an ending or beginning but rather as a curve in a lifetime…