Health Care

Tens of thousands of people in Colorado may struggle to afford tampons, pads and other menstrual hygiene products.

Since the 1970s, members of the Cora tribe from the Mexican state of Nayarit have been living and working̶—and now riding out a pandemic—in Gunnison County.

Trans and nonbinary people face significant barriers when trying to access gender-affirming health care. ECHO Colorado is working to change that.

In communities with many reasons to distrust government efforts, vaccine distribution efforts by tribal and urban Native programs have expanded access and eased worries.  

Much like the rest of the country, Colorado is struggling to equitably vaccinate populations and communities impacted most by the coronavirus. 

Administering the COVID-19 vaccine to people experiencing homelessness was always going to be difficult. Colorado is making it appreciably harder. 

The devastation of the coronavirus in long-term care facilities has brought new urgency and creativity to the work of getting people out of them.

Even in one of Colorado’s most famously rural locales, poor air quality and its impacts have become impossible to ignore.

Cars, wildfires and global warming are creating respiratory risks like never before, but officials worry not enough people are aware.

Pilots across Colorado have resulted in drastically reduced numbers of arrests or emergency department transports, instead providing people with mental health support.