Network-Wide CRN User News
Congratulations to Loving Beyong Understanding!
This valued CRN Partner has received a crucial grant to help expand social support and safe spaces for LGBTQ+ individuals in western Colorado.
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Regional News
West Mountain News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in West Mountain!
YouthPower365
YouthPower365 is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with an extraordinary history of serving youth and families throughout Eagle County. From the inception of our organization, YouthPower365 staff and leadership have studied our ever‐changing resort community to provide optimal services to the working families who struggle every day to make ends meet and to raise educated, well‐rounded children.
YouthPower365 has grown in both size and programming throughout our history to respond to the growing and changing demand for high-quality support services. We now have 17 full-time staff, employ 168 teachers in the after-school programs, and utilize 200+ volunteers. Today, we operate programs from early childhood to college and career to help youth reach their full potential.
Mission: To inspire, educate and empower youth and families from early childhood to college and career readiness.
CRN Usage: Accepts email/fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: West Mountain
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. This program provides 12-step support services. Please visit the Central Office of Western Colorado website to find your nearest meeting.
CRN Use: Receiving emailed referrals
Regions: Mesa County, Delta/Montrose Region, West Mountain
Mesa County News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Mesa County!
PACE at HopeWest
PACE is a Medicare program and Medicaid state option that gives community-based care and services to people 55 or older who otherwise would need a nursing home level of care.
PACE was created as a way to give you, your family, caregivers, and professional health care providers the flexibility to meet your health care needs and help you continue living in the community.
CRN Usage: Receives email and fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: Mesa County
CenterWell Home Health
CenterWell Home Health provides skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and social work services.
Working together with you and your doctor, we create a personalized care plan that addresses all your health needs. Our clinicians take the time to work with you so that you can confidently manage medications, make smart nutrition choices, and move safely in your day-to-day activities—so you have the time to focus on the people and things you love.
CRN Usage: Receives fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: Mesa County
La Villa Grande
La Villa Grande Care Center offers skilled nursing, rehabilitation, short-term stays and memory care. As part of the Stellar Living Network (a tight-knit collective of family-owned and operated senior living communities), we set the standard in both short-term rehabilitation and longer-term care.
CRN Usage: Received email/fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: Mesa County
Human Touch
We provide skilled and unskilled home health care services. We accept ALL insurances- (Except – Humana)
Skilled Disciplines Available: RN/LPN, PT, OT, MSW, SLP, CNA
Non-Skilled Available: Personal Care Worker, Homemaker (VA, Long term Medicaid and Self-Pay ONLY)
-Certified LSVT Big Program provider- (intensive PT/OT combination therapy program for Parkinson’s patients to improve symptoms and increase independence)
– Accepts pediatric patients
CRN Usage: Accepts email/fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: Mesa County
Larchwood
Larchwood Inns Skilled Nursing and the PARC is comprised of two buildings. One building – The PARC- has private rooms and provides post-acute rehab services (Short-term Rehab) including, Physical, Occupation and Speech Therapy. We have a specialized wound team and do accept wound vacs. We have a Registered Dietician.
We accept Medicare, Multiple Medicare Advantage Plans, Private Insurance, Workman’s Compensation, Uranium Mine Worker’s, PACE, VA, Hospice, Private Pay, and Medicaid.
CRN Usage: Accepts email/fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: Delta County, Mesa County, Montrose
Cimarron Home Care LLC
At Cimarron Home Care, our home care services provide not only help with physical activities, but an emotional connection that adds joy and longevity to a loved one’s life. Cimarron offers the following services:
-Skilled Nursing
-Physical Therapy
-Occupational Therapy
CRN Usage: Accepts email/fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: Delta County, Mesa County, Montrose
Delta/ Montrose/ Gunnison News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Montrose/Delta/Gunnison!
Larchwood
Larchwood Inns Skilled Nursing and the PARC is comprised of two buildings. One building – The PARC- has private rooms and provides post-acute rehab services (Short-term Rehab) including, Physical, Occupation and Speech Therapy. We have a specialized wound team and do accept wound vacs. We have a Registered Dietician.
We accept Medicare, Multiple Medicare Advantage Plans, Private Insurance, Workman’s Compensation, Uranium Mine Worker’s, PACE, VA, Hospice, Private Pay, and Medicaid.
CRN Usage: Accepts email/fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: Delta County, Mesa County, Montrose
Cimarron Home Care LLC
At Cimarron Home Care, our home care services provide not only help with physical activities, but an emotional connection that adds joy and longevity to a loved one’s life. Cimarron offers the following services:
-Skilled Nursing
-Physical Therapy
-Occupational Therapy
CRN Usage: Accepts email/fax referrals from CRN
Regions Served: Delta County, Mesa County, Montrose
Helpful Resources for August 2024
from the Colorado Regional Health Connector Program–>
Funding Opportunities –
- Funding (due 8/19) – Health Disparities and Community Grant Program. Funding for community projects aimed at preventing, detecting and treating cancer, cardiovascular, and chronic pulmonary diseases among underrepresented populations in Colorado. Managed by the Office of Health Equity (OHE), the grants focus on addressing systemic health disparities and improving health equity by tackling economic, physical, and social environmental challenges, including barriers associated with accessing timely and preventive health care.
- Funding (due 9/19) – Accelerating research through international network-to-network collaborations. Goals of this program are to 1) leverage prior NSF support for building research capacity towards activities that launch international research network of networks (NoN) that will lead to an accelerated advancement of an area of science after the award period and 2) recruit and foster a diverse and internationally competent US-based workforce trained in conducting and leading multi-team international collaboration. Any area funded by the National Science Foundation is eligible
- Funding (due 2/26/25) – Strategic prevention framework. The purpose of this program is to help reduce the onset and progression of substance misuse and its related problems by supporting the development and delivery of community based substance misuse and prevention and mental health promotion services.
- Funding (applications accepted on an ongoing basis) – Hearst Foundations Health Grants. The Hearst Foundations provide grants for organizations working to address access to healthcare for high-need populations, healthcare professional shortages, evolving healthcare demands, and medical research.
- Funding (applications accepted on an ongoing basis) – National Grassroots Organizing Program. Two-year unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small, constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the US and its territories.
- Funding (applications accepted on an ongoing basis) – Economic Development Assistance. Funding to support the implementation of regional economic development, including public works projects and job creation projects. Past projects have included funding for water and wastewater projects in hospitals and healthcare facilities and road infrastructure projects that would support the expansion of healthcare facilities. Rural tribal and other underserved communities are of priority.
- Funding (applications accepted on an ongoing basis) – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Grants for innovative projects that are working to build health equity, ensuring that everyone has access to the care they need and all families have the opportunity to make healthier choices.
Webinars, Trainings & Conferences
- Virtual: Better Caregiving for All – Caregiving for LGBTQ+ Adults with Dementia
- Virtual: Aligning Real-World Practice to Evidence-Based Care for Weight-Focused T2D Management | CCO (clinicaloptions.com) – Experts review updated guideline recommendations and evidence for type 2 diabetes (T2D) treatment in this 3 part webinar series.
- Virtual: Barriers to Care: Solutions for Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Provision in Rural Communities – Wed Aug 21, 10am. Understand the key barriers to mental health and substance use care in rural communities; highlight how Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics strengthen mental health care infrastructure in rural areas; and explore strategies for embedding DEI in your organization and expanding the use of culturally competent service for diverse rural populations.
- Virtual: HCPF Annual Stakeholder Webinar. This event will review HCPF major initiatives for FY 2023-2024, priority initiatives for FY 2024-2025, and Public Health Emergency Unwind insights and opportunities going forward
- In Person: Denver Metro Area Healing Together….. For a Cause – in Colorado! Tickets, Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 4:00 PM | Eventbrite
News & Resources:
- The Colorado Opioid Abatement Council (COAC) recently adopted the 2024 Recommendations and Guiding Principles for the Use & Management of Opioid Settlement Funds. These recommendations and principles provide guidance to recipients of opioid funds on how to best utilize these funds to maximize their impact in abating the opioid crisis. The COAC intends to build upon this guidance in the future.
- Improving Health Outcomes for People Leaving Jails and Prison
- Telehealth hubs. This interactive map shows libraries with telehealth hubs in the regional area. You can also click this link to access the State of Colorado Digital Access Strategy.