2002 ANNUAL REPORT - The Colorado Trust

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Strengthening Delivery of Health Care Services Accessible & Affo eight T h e C o l o r a d o T r u s t • 2 0 0 2 A n n u a l R e p o r t
nine “The Colorado Rural Outreach Program (CROP) has been helpful to us in two ways: one, it’s hard for rural practices to offer compensation at the same rates that our urban counterparts are able to do; and two, being a privately held practice, we are not eligible for any federal or state repayment programs. We wrote our first CROP grant so we could assist an internal medicine physician, Dr. Joseph Flannery, with the repayment of student loans. He’s been very valuable to our staff – he’s a wonderful clinician. The CROP loan repayment program has really helped his satisfaction level and his ability to stay. The grant helped us be competitive in the marketplace and it’s a very valuable retention tool. Rural medicine is so difficult, because we just don’t have a choice about our payers. And here in the San Luis Valley, we have a significant proportion of uninsured and underinsured patients. In our practice, which has about 7,500 client visits each month, our patients are about 19% uninsured or underinsured on top of about 48% of Medicare or Medicaid patients. In a rural area, you’re going to work harder and you’re going to be less wellcompensated. But you’re going to have a nicer quality of life and a better relationship with your patients.” Gwen Heller Chief Administrative Officer, San Luis Valley Medical PC rdable Health Care Initiatives Colorado Health Institute Jointly developed by The Colorado Trust, Caring for Colorado Foundation and Rose Community Foundation and launched in 2002, the Colorado Health Institute is an independent nonprofit organization that is designed to serve as the state’s leading center for health data resources and analysis. The three foundations are providing core funding for the Institute during its start-up phase and for at least the first five years of its operations. The three foundations created the Institute based on a feasibility study that found there is currently no single, easily accessible, independent, impartial source of health information in the state.rce of health information in the state. Colorado Rural Outreach Program Administered by the Colorado Rural Health Center, the Colorado Rural Outreach Program is designed to recruit and retain adequate numbers of physicians in rural Colorado communities. The program offers numerous incentives to physicians such as education loan repayment, relocation assistance and temporary help so rural doctors have the flexibility to do such things as attend continuing education classes. The effort also assists communities with improvements of clinics or hospital facilities and the purchases of medical equipment. Strengthening Delivery of Health Care Services
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