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The Checkup is where the Colorado Health Institute explores important health policy issues affecting people in Colorado. CHI is a trusted source of independent and objective health information, data, and analysis about health and health policy in Colorado. The Checkup is hosted by Jackie Zubrzycki

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    • Feb 26, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 25m AVG DURATION
    • 10 EPISODES


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    This Colorado Nurse Is Addressing Burnout Through Art and Action

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2019 31:33


    Nurses are the people we turn to to take care of us when we're not well. But nurses are often fatigued, emotionally and physically, in their workplaces. Burnout has been described as an epidemic among clinicians. One study estimated that 80 percent of ICU nurses are experiencing some form of burnout. And a study from the Colorado Nursing Center found that about 16 percent of nurses left their jobs in 2017.  Tara Rynders, a nurse at Rose Medical Center and an interdisciplinary artist, decided to explore these issues through an immersive dance performance. With the support of an Arts in Society grant, she staged several performances in late 2018 that took audience members through the halls, rooms, and even the basement of the hospital. The performance considered everything from the piles paperwork to the emotional issues that arise when a loved one has died. Rynders was recently nominated for the Colorado Nurses Foundation's Nightingale Award for this work, which she said is an indication that the hospital values this kind of work and that the nursing profession values telling stories like this.  In this episode of The Checkup, Rynders talks about burnout and compassion fatigue in the nursing profession, what hospitals, policymakers, and nurses can do about it, and about how her own experiences as a patient, nurse, and artist combined in "First Do No Harm." https://www.coloradohealthinstitute.org/podcast

    What Policymakers Should Know About Early Childhood Mental Health

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2019 42:19


    Jordana Ash, Early Childhood Mental Health Director in the Office of Early Childhood, part of the Colorado Department of Human Services, talks about brain development, resilience, and what she wishes health care providers and policymakers knew about early childhood mental health.

    How Colorado's Health Insurance Exchange Is Weathering a Changing Policy Environment

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2018 30:32


    The individual mandate is gone. The "public charge" might be changing. The cost of insurance continues to increase. CHI's Jackie Zubrzycki talks with Kevin Patterson, CEO of Connect for Health Colorado, Colorado's health insurance exchange, about how Connect for Health Colorado is weathering a changing policy landscape

    Vic Vela on Listening to Stories Of Substance Use and Recovery

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2018 17:14


    A preview of Colorado radio journalist Vic Vela's speech at CHI's Hot Issues in Health conference. Vic tells his story of addiction and recovery.

    Ways Of The RAES: Colorado's Medicaid Director Discusses the Accountable Care Collaborative

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2018 21:12


    CHI's Jeff Bontrager interviews HCPF's Laurel Karabatsos. Accompanies The Ways of the RAEs, a paper by CHI.

    Ways of the RAEs: Colorado Community Health Alliance

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 23:22


    Episode 6 of CHI's series on the Regional Accountable Entities, or RAEs.

    Ways of the RAEs: Colorado Access

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 21:18


    Episode 5 of the Colorado Health Institute's series on Colorado's Medicaid program and the RAEs. An interview with Gretchen McGinnis of Colorado Access.

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    Ways of the RAEs: Health Colorado

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 20:27


    Episode 5 of the Colorado Health Institute's series on Colorado's Medicaid program and the RAEs. An interview with Alonzo Payne of Health Colorado.

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    Ways of the RAEs: Rocky Mountain Health Plans

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 27:48


    Episode 2 of the Colorado Health Institute's series on Colorado's Medicaid program and the RAEs. An interview with Patrick Gordon and Meg Taylor of Rocky Mountain Health Plans.

    Ways of the RAEs: Northeast Health Partners

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 21:11


    Part of CHI's series on leaders from the Regional Accountable Entities (RAES). In Episode 3, CHI's Jeff Bontrager interviews Kari Snelson of Northeast Health Partners.

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