GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Grand Junction city officials say they'll train parks and recreation employees about Colorado's breastfeeding laws after a worker told a woman to leave a pool and breastfeed her baby in a bathroom.
KMGH-TV reports Thursday that the incident happened last weekend at the Orchard... more »
DENVER (AP) - State officials say the State Veterans Nursing Home in Rifle is on the way to financial recovery and will remain open.
Concerns surfaced after state auditors said in June the facility was losing money.
Auditors said Tuesday the facility has lost money for five of... more »
Here's what I'm working on today. Total Longterm Care is now open in Pueblo. The agency helps elderly people who need long term health care. What's unique about them, is that they offer home health care care and transportation services, giving seniors an alternative to living in nursing homes.
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State officials are evaluating four bids to buy the money-losing Trinidad State Nursing Home. Colorado Department of Human Services spokeswoman Liz McDonough said Monday that the department is proceeding with a sale, even as legislators consider a bill to block it.
The Legislature last year authorized a sale of... more »
A bill to block the sale of a state-run nursing home in Trinidad got past its first hurdle this week. House Bill 12-17 would repeal the state's authority to sell the Trinidad State Nursing home. On Monday, a Health and Human Services committee in the Colorado House of Representatives passed... more »
Colorado lawmakers are taking steps to stop the only state run nursing home from being sold. In 2009, they passed a bill allowing the Department of Health and Human Services to sell the nursing home in Trinidad to a private owner. However, on Monday those same lawmakers introduced a bill... more »
Lawmakers are debating whether to sell the only state run nursing home that's open to everyone in Colorado. The nursing home has operated in Trinidad for more than 50 years. However, the state says over the past two years, it's become too expensive to run.
As one of the... more »