By Kristin Jones
Rocky Mountain PBS I-News
Danielle Nordeen drives a 16-year-old Toyota Camry that doesn’t handle well on snowy mountain passes. In January, Nordeen had to make the drive from her home in Grand Junction to Pueblo often enough that she developed a strategy: Find a semi with its hazard lights on and follow it closely, prompting the other drivers to direct their wrath toward the trucker rather than her.
By Kristin Jones
Rocky Mountain PBS I-News
Growing demand for intensive mental-health treatment in the state and a decline in the supply of psychiatric beds have put added pressure on emergency rooms. In cases when patients pose a danger to themselves or others, ERs become the default holding place.
By Kristin Jones
Rocky Mountain PBS I-News
In unit 4C of the Pueblo County jail, any human presence draws inmates to the narrow windows of their solitary cells. They bark requests and complaints, or just grin and make small talk. One man’s ceiling is leaking; another wants to know how many more days he has left in segregation.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon Colorado will allow about 100,000 people who kept previously canceled health insurance plans to extend them until the end of 2015, but very few health insurance companies are likely to keep selling the plans. Fury last fall over canceled health insurance prompted President Obama to decide that people could keep canceled…
By Kristin Jones
I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS
For people with the dual diagnoses of developmental disability — which can range from Down syndrome or autism to cerebral palsy — and mental illness, getting treatment means navigating a fragmented system.
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