Tag: Colorado Health Network
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AIDS memorial quilt on display at Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs
In observance of World AIDS Day, the Pioneers Museum and the Colorado Health Network have hosted panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt. Conceived in 1985, when the fear, prejudice and social stigma surrounding AIDS prevented many of its victims from receiving proper funerals, the blanket is a massive memorial celebrating the lives of people…
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Peak Vista Community Health Centers appoints new CEO
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Peak Vista Community Health Centers announced Friday that its board named Jaeson Fournier as CEO of the Colorado Springs-based safety net provider, which offers medical, mental and dental care for uninsured, indigent and low-income residents across Southern Colorado. Fournier will join Peak Vista in mid-September,…
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Peak Vista Community Health Centers appoints new CEO
Peak Vista Community Health Centers has named Jaeson Fournier as CEO of the Colorado Springs-based safety net provider, which offers medical, mental and dental care for uninsured, indigent and low-income residents across Southern Colorado. Fournier will join Peak Vista in mid-September, according to a news release. He has led community health centers for over 20…
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Needle-exchange program in Colorado Springs stirs controversy, raises questions among public officials
Pueblo City Council’s decision earlier this week to ban syringe distribution to injection-drug users in its city limits prompted an El Paso County commissioner to check into the issue. What Commissioner Longinos Gonzalez Jr. found is that a needle-exchange program has been operating in Colorado Springs for nearly three years. And he believes there has…
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Fentanyl-related deaths more than double in El Paso County
Overdoses related to fentanyl — a potent synthetic opioid — more than doubled last year in El Paso County, according to data from the county coroner’s office. For years, public health and law enforcement officials warned about the powerful drug that was causing spikes in overdoses on the East Coast and steadily making its way toward western…