Tag: local updates
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Amazing save: Penrose team pulls off remarkable feat
A healthy young woman walks into the emergency room short of breath, suffering from swine flu. Soon her organs begin to fail and she goes into cardiac arrest. Only one machine can save her, but the hospital doesn’t have one, and she’s too unstable to go a medical center that does. So, in a desperate…
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Road trip! Swine flu clinics go mobile
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Health authorities are taking swine flu vaccine clinics on the road in the next few weeks to reach residents who live in rural communities outside of Colorado Springs. Starting Monday, a mobile medical truck will…
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Road trip! Swine flu clinics go mobile
Health authorities are taking swine flu vaccine clinics on the road in the next few weeks to reach residents who live in rural communities outside of Colorado Springs. Starting Monday, a mobile medical truck will set up day-long shot clinics around El Paso County. The first will be in Fountain, followed by Calhan, Ellicott and…
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Kaiser extends in-network coverage to Penrose
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After nearly a decade, Kaiser Permanente has ended its exclusive relationship with Memorial Health System and will allow thousands of Southern Colorado customers to be treated in-network at Penrose-St. Francis Health Services as well. In…
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Kaiser extends in-network coverage to Penrose
After nearly a decade, Kaiser Permanente has ended its exclusive relationship with Memorial Health System and will allow thousands of Southern Colorado customers to be treated in-network at Penrose-St. Francis Health Services as well. In 2000, Kaiser put Penrose hospitals out of its network. For thousands of people insured by the nonprofit health plan, that…
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El Paso County reports infant death from H1N1
An infant in El Paso County has died of H1N1 flu, the health department announced this afternoon. “This is very sad news and we want to express our deepest sympathy to the infant’s family,” said Kandi Buckland, executive director of the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment, in a news release. The baby’s death was…
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Study: 57,500 Coloradans lost health coverage in 2009
A report released Tuesday by Families USA has found about 57,500 Coloradans lost health insurance in 2009 as unemployment rose. Most people under 65 are insured through employers, so when job losses increase, so do insurance losses. Although the unemployed can take advantage of COBRA, a program in which someone can keep their insurance if…
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Outbreak made AFA a living lab for swine-flu study
For science’s sake, a swine flu outbreak could not have come at a better time and place than the one that hit the Air Force Academy in July. With its seemingly perfect blend of brain power, military structure and access to federal resources, the AFA was able to quickly contain the outbreak as well as…
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Swine-flu vaccine still weeks away for El Paso County residents
Sgt. David W. Budwah Photo by The Associated Press Yvette May