Denver Councilman Calls Hospital Bonuses 'Disgraceful'
Chris Hinds said handing out millions in performance bonuses to Denver Health Medical Center administrators and executives in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic was "disgraceful."
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Chris Hinds said handing out millions in performance bonuses to Denver Health Medical Center administrators and executives in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic was "disgraceful."
Top executives at Denver Health received significant bonuses one week after frontline hospital workers were asked to voluntarily take leave or reduce their hours.
A senior medical director for a nationwide health care delivery company who lives in Colorado is now recommending his hospital doctors not use hydroxychloroquine.
A private lab in Colorado Springs could significantly increase COVID-19 testing capacity in Colorado if Gov. Polis would make a simple administrative change.
In Arvada, homeowner Sarah Burgett says a thief stole $20,000 worth of merchandise from her garage while she and her family were sleeping upstairs in the early morning hours on Easter Sunday.
There are still thousands of students around the metro who haven't been engaging in remote learning. In Brighton 27J alone, schools across the district have been unable to contact 1,866 students.
As citizens and politicians in Colorado and around the nation debate when to lift stay-at-home orders, a Colorado public health expert says reopening the state's economy now "will cost people their lives."
An administrator at the Aurora Mental Health Center was was surprised by how many people participated in a telephone town hall on mental and public health.
"The rate of the number of cases is decreasing. There's still more cases, but the rate of increase has decreased, and the rate of discharge is increasing," explained Dr. Richard Zane, UCHealth's Chief Innovation Officer and Head of Emergency Medicine. "So, that's great news."
The only qualifications for becoming a 'Citizen Scientist' are being over 18 and owning a smartphone.
Christy Sports stores are collecting used ski goggles to pass along to doctors and nurses who are lacking personal protective equipment, or PPE.
With stay at home orders in place, there are few car accidents and few of the common mishaps that would typically bring patients to the emergency rooms. Doctors say the drop is also fueled by a fear of coming to an emergency room and contracting coronavirus.
Colorado doctors and hospitals say they still only have enough supplies to test a fraction of those who should be tested.
The shutdown has caused a domino effect, leading to fewer child abuse cases getting reported, CBS4 has learned. That's because there are fewer eyes on children right now, since they're staying at home for school and aren't attending any after-school activities.
A Denver family physician has been prescribing a controversial medication to his patients, sick with coronavirus, and believes it is yielding positive results.
A former women's golf coach at the University of Northern Colorado was found guilty by a Weld County jury of inappropriately touching a college student in connection with a private golf lesson after he resigned from the school.
It happens on city streets, sidewalks, and park paths; residents, particularly teens, are using ATVs, e-bikes and dirt bikes in an unsafe way.
Eleven candidates are vying to lead the board, watch the candidates state their views on the key issues facing DPS.
The City of Denver has changed its 311 service hours and is directing residents to use its new chatbot to answer questions.
The Boulder Valley School District is closely monitoring a decline in enrollment.
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Colorado Buffaloes Football Head Coach Deion Sanders revealed on Tuesday that he was scheduled for surgery but had a positive outlook.
Boulder Valley School District expects to see a continued decline in student enrollment, a trend that started in 2018.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is searching for 3 men suspected of burglarizing two homes in Castle Pines over the weekend.
Denver police have issued a crime alert for Monday's deadly hit-and- run at Colfax and Trenton.
Colorado Buffaloes Football Head Coach Deion Sanders revealed on Tuesday that he was scheduled for surgery but had a positive outlook.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the Colorado High School Activities Association are investigating what happened at a recent high school football game.
"We're all (Denver Broncos) fans in here," Avs defenseman Cale Makar told reporters Monday. "Let's get that out of the way."
Mark Sanchez was hospitalized with multiple stab wounds following a violent altercation over the weekend.
Broncos quarterback Bo Nix threw a critical 4th quarter touchdown, followed by a 2-point conversion to overtake the Eagles for the lead.
Airports in several U.S. states are seeing flight delays as the government shutdown enters a second week.
The Supreme Court heard a challenge to a Colorado law banning "conversion therapy" for minors that was brought by a licensed counselor in the state.
One of 2025's three Nobel Prize in Physics winners says the trio's work is "one of the underlying reasons that cellphones work.''
National Air Traffic Controllers Association tells its members that failing to report to work could cost them their job.
Soybean farmers have been hit particularly hard, as China boycotts American soybeans.
The Supreme Court heard a challenge to a Colorado law banning "conversion therapy" for minors that was brought by a licensed counselor in the state.
The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by President Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, GOP senators say.
Soybean farmers have been hit particularly hard, as China boycotts American soybeans.
The Supreme Court will hear a case brought by a licensed counselor in Colorado, who argues her state's ban on "conversion therapy" violates her First Amendment rights.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not take up a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her 2021 conviction for sex trafficking.
Federal health officials are warning people not to eat certain HelloFresh subscription meal kits that may contain spinach that might be contaminated with listeria.
The CDC officially adopted recommendations made by the agency's vaccine advisory committee, whose members were hand-picked by Secretary Kennedy.
A coconut cake known to be gifted by star Tom Cruise around the holidays is recalled due to a labeling error.
Nobel Prize committee chair says discoveries by the trio of researchers were "decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions."
The Kroger Company's recall follows another FDA recall announcement last week of possibly contaminated pasta.
Airports in several U.S. states are seeing flight delays as the government shutdown enters a second week.
National Air Traffic Controllers Association tells its members that failing to report to work could cost them their job.
Soybean farmers have been hit particularly hard, as China boycotts American soybeans.
A growing number of Americans, squeezed by inflation and elevated interest rates, face the risk of losing their home in foreclosure.
A coconut cake known to be gifted by star Tom Cruise around the holidays is recalled due to a labeling error.
Denver's Board of Ethics on Friday cleared Denver International Airport and its Chief Executive Officer, Phil Washington, of an ethics violation related to a trip to a conference in Madrid earlier this year.
After months of fighting, a Colorado family is breathing a sigh of relief after the FDA announced initial approval of an experimental medication helping to keep their son alive.
A series of three attempted armed robberies targeting men with Rolex watches in Denver's Cherry Creek North neighborhood led police and federal investigators to deport one suspected Venezuelan TdA gang member.
A Colorado man is warning others after falling victim to an elaborate romance scam that cost him more than a million dollars in savings.
Neighbors living next to Denver's Elati Village micro community are asking the facility be shut down or moved "immediately" after an RV parked outside the facility burst into flames during the night of Sept. 11.