Meg Wingerter
Health Reporter at The Denver Post
I cover health for The Denver Post. Open to story ideas! Opinions are mine and retweets aren't endorsements. She/her/hers
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3 days ago |
denverpost.com | Meg Wingerter
Colorado once again has psychiatric beds available west of the Front Range after Vail Health opened a new inpatient facility last week. Until recently, West Springs Hospital in Grand Junction was the only option for inpatient psychiatric treatment between metro Denver and Salt Lake City. The hospital closed in early March because of financial difficulties, though its detoxification facility and outpatient clinic remained open.
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3 days ago |
telegraphherald.com | Meg Wingerter
DENVER — When the anesthesiologist put Angelica Vance under for her cesarean section, she had no way of knowing what she’d encounter when she woke. If everything went perfectly, the baby would be on a ventilator, and the doctors would have a plan to remove the growth that was impairing her daughter’s breathing. If things went wrong, Vance might be recovering from severe bleeding, while a machine pumped blood through her daughter Chloe’s body.
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4 days ago |
reporterherald.com | Meg Wingerter
Hospital systems in Colorado saw improved finances in 2024, but Medicaid cuts are ‘looming threat’ Of the 6 hospital systems operating in metro Denver, only 1 lost money at national level last year
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4 days ago |
denverpost.com | Meg Wingerter
Hospital systems in Colorado reported an improved financial year in 2024 after rising costs made for thinner margins the previous year. Of the six hospital systems in the Denver area, only CommonSpirit Health, which owns the Catholic hospitals that formerly were part of Centura Health, reported it lost money on its operations at the national level. Operations include patient care and supportive services, such as parking or cafeteria sales, but not profits on investments.
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1 week ago |
denverpost.com | Meg Wingerter
More than half of the sales tax that voters approved in November to fund Denver Health will go toward emergency care, with smaller amounts funding a new clinic in southeast Denver and beds for mental health treatment. Denver voters agreed to increase the sales tax by 0.34 percentage points, which works out to 34 cents on a $100 purchase, to help the city’s struggling safety-net hospital.
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Our first look at how Denver Health is going to spend the sales tax money voters approved: https://t.co/pt5Wpcsjgz The largest share is going for uncompensated emergency care, but they also plan to open 10 psych beds.
I can't imagine what it would be like to go under for surgery, knowing that in the best-case scenario, your baby would be on a ventilator when you woke up. https://t.co/PGc0DICnXb
Colorado is a destination for families of kids who need liver transplants because we have a hospital that will use living donors. But they're on their own to find someone willing to donate, if a family member can't do it. https://t.co/QVpimAW0tn
