Colorado Nurses' Association:"The Colorado Nurses' Association is a professional organization of registered nurses in Colorado. It is a constituent of the American Nurses' Association. The primary purpose of this association is to provide direction and a voice for the profession of nursing and nurses as leaders in health care."
Colorado Nurses Associations 950 South Cherry Street, Suite 508 Denver, Colorado 80246
Phone: (303) 757-7483 Fax: (303) 758-0190 E-Mail: CNA@Nurses-CO.org
http://www.nurses-co.org/

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Colorado Alliance of Nursing workforce Development Opportunity:"Colorado Alliance of Nursing workforce Development Opportunity is a formal venue to examine the Colorado Supply/Demand of nursing personnel."
UCHSC at Fitzsimons, Colorado AHEC Program
Mail Stop F433, PO Box 6508 Aurora, CO 80045-0508
Tel: 303-724-0348

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Colorado Nursing Entrepreneurs:

Colorado Federation Of Business And Professional Women:"Hundreds of Colorado working women and men from over 30 communities large and small are members of Colorado BPW! We help women achieve professional and personal goals through programs, workshops, networking, and friendships. All is achieved through monthly meetings and other sponsored activities. Each Colorado BPW organization creates its own unique agenda, but all have the same objectives."
info@bpwco.org
http://www.bpwco.org/

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Colorado Health Insurance, Healthcare:

Colorado Access:"Colorado Access is a nonprofit health plan that provides access to behavioral and physical healthcare services for medically underserved Coloradans. The company was established in late 1994, by The Children's Hospital, Colorado Community Managed Care Network, University Hospital and Denver Health."
webmaster@coaccess.com
http://www.coaccess.com/public/index.jsp

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(Colorado) Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+). Quality Health Insurance for Colorado's Children.:"Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) is affordable health insurance for Colorado children. It's for children whose parents earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford health insurance."
Child Health Plan Plus
700 South Ash Street, Suite B105, Glendale, CO 80246
800.359.1991:
http://www.cchp.org/

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Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved (CCMU):"More than 15 percent of Colorado residents (almost 580,000 people) are subject to increased health problems and severe economic loss because they have no health insurance. To address this critical issue, the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved (CCMU) has developed an action plan designed to ensure that everyone in the state will have access to affordable, quality health care and prevention programs by 2007."
Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved
P.O. Box 17550 Denver, CO 80217-0550
Phone: 720-858-6326 Fax: 720-859-7509 e-mail: info@ccmu.org
http://www.ccmu.org/

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Colorado Community Health Network (CCHN):"The Colorado Community Health Network (CCHN) is the state association of Community Health Centers. Our Mission is to provide a coordinating structure for non-profit community-based primary health care programs to assure continued access to health care for medically underserved Coloradans."
Colorado Community Health Network (CCHN)
800 Grant Street, Suite 505 Denver, CO 80203
303/861-5165 303/861-5315 (Fax)
http://www.cchn.org/

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Kids In Need of Dentistry (KIND):"Kids In Need of Dentistry (KIND) is a non-profit, charitable, health organization for children founded in 1912 by a committee of dentists from the Denver Dental Society. Concerned about impoverished children in Denver receiving essential dental care, they opened a clinic in the Denver Public Schools which is still in operation today at Morey Middle School in Capitol Hill. Four additional clinics were opened in the mid-1960s in Tri County and Jefferson County Health Departments in Aurora, Commerce City, Englewood, and Lakewood."
Kids In Need of Dentistry (KIND)
2465 South Downing, Suite 207 Denver, Colorado 80210
Phone: 303-733-3710 Fax: 303-733-3670 Email: info@kindsmiles.org 1-877-544-KIND
http://www.kindsmiles.org/

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Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing:"This Internet site is provided as a resource for policy-makers, health care consumers, providers, and all citizens of Colorado. As the state agency responsible for the administration of the Medicaid program, the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing faces many challenges. In a time of fiscal constraints and increasing health care access problems, the Department is finding more efficient and effective ways to provide health care for low-income Coloradans. As one of the largest purchasers of health care in the State of Colorado, the Department's purchasing methods affect the overall health care market. The Department’s purchasing methods are designed to improve access to care and the quality of health services delivered to clients, to offer consumers choice of providers and health plans, and to encourage providers and plans to compete with one another based on price, quality, and accessibility."
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
Karen K. Reinertson, Executive Director
1575 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203-1714
Voice: (303) 866-2993 Fax: (303) 866-4411 TDD: (303) 866-3883, diane.rodriguez@state.co.us
http://www.chcpf.state.co.us/

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Colorado Division of Insurance:"As a state regulatory agency, we serve individual consumers and the insurance industry. To assist both aspects, we have organized our website into various categories. These categories may be accessed by pressing the Main button at the top of the screen, which jumps you to our main menu."
Colorado Division of Insurance
1560 Broadway, Suite 850 Denver, Colorado 80202 Producer Licensing - ASI:
Main Number: 303-894-7499 Consumer Complaints: 303-894-7490
Colorado Toll Free Number: 1-800-930-3745 Fax Number: 303-894-7455
1-800-275-8247 V/TDD: 303-894-7880 http://www.dora.state.co.us/Insurance/

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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South Denver, Colorado 80246-1530
For more information, please e-mail us or phone 303.692.2035 Main Phone Number: (303) 692-2000 or 1-800-886-7689 (In-state) TTD Line for the Hearing Impaired: (303) 691-7700 cdphe.information@state.co.us http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/

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Colorado Health Care Association:"The Colorado Health Care Association believes that the health care system has a responsibility to meet the physical and psychological needs of the long-term care patient in a cost-effective manner. Our purpose is to work with our members in meeting such challenges while continually striving to achieve a higher quality of care."
http://www.cohca.org/consumer/index.html

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Colorado Academy of Family Physicians:"The mission of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians is to support and assist Colorado's Family Physicians so they can provide personal, comprehensive, continuing, and cost-effective patient care."
(303) 696-6655 FAX (303) 696-7224 In Colorado WATS: (800) 468-8615, recina@coloradoafp.org
http://www.coloradoafp.org/

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Colorado Medical Society:"The Colorado Medical Society is the largest organization of physicians in the state of Colorado. This membership organization, comprised of physicians, residents and medical students, was founded in 1871 to promote the art and science of medicine and to improve the public health."
Colorado Medical Society
7351 Lowry Boulevard, Denver, Colorado 80230
720-859-1001 or 800-654-5653, webmaster@cms.org
http://www.cms.org/

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Colorado Medical Society Foundation:"The Colorado Medical Society Foundation was established in March 1997 with a mission to administer and financially manage programs that seek to improve access to health care and health services with the potential to improve the health of Coloradans."
Sandi Maloney, Executive Director, Colorado Medical Society Foundation
7351 Lowry Boulevard, Denver, CO 80230
720-859-1001,800-654-5653, Anita_Albrecht@cms.org
http://www.cms.org/CMSF/CMSF.html

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Colorado Rural Health Center:"The Colorado Rural Health Center is a diverse mix of people, programs, and places interested in Colorado's rural healthcare. The Center's mission is to enhance healthcare services by providing information, education, linkages, tools and energy toward addressing rural healthcare issues. The Center provides or helps arrange for technical assistance to rural communities so they can take full advantage of federal, state, public, and private resources. The Center builds linkages among rural programs and commmunities and urban and rural colleagues toward identifying and addressing healthcare issues."
Write to 225 E. 16th Ave., Suite 1050, Denver, CO 80203;
or call (303) 832-7493, (800)851-6782 from rural Colorado , (303)832-7496(fax), info@coruralhealth.org
http://www.coruralhealth.org/

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Colorado Turning Point Initiative:"The Colorado Turning Point Initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is one of twenty-one states participating in the foundation's National Turning Point Initiative. The key goal of the National Turning Point Initiative is to allow states to create a plan to transform the public health system in their state to enhance public health capacity and improve health status. In Colorado, the health improvement plan will identify roles and responsibilities for collaborative partners. The plan will integrate the efforts of many organizations and individuals whose work contributes to improve health for all Coloradans."
Jill Hunsaker, MPH Director, Turning Point Initiative
phone: (303) 692-2329 contact: jill.hunsaker@state.co.us
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/tpi/

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Colorado Unisurable Health Insurance Plan (CoverColorado):"The Colorado Unisurable Health Insurance Plan (CoverColorado) provides individual, major-medical health insurance to eligible Colorado residents who have been denied access to affordable health insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions"
If you have questions about rates, plans or benefits, please feel free to contact us at 800 672-8447 or 303 863-1960.
Also you may send us an email to cuninsurable@qwest.net
http://www.cuhip.com/

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