Community health centers in need of doctors, nurses

There’s a growing labor shortage problem in primary health care in Colorado that could become much worse in the next few years with the full implementation of the federal health care reform act.

But Denver-based Colorado Community Health Centers – through its Colorado Community Health Network – is taking on the challenge of recruiting 5,000 new health care professionals to meet the expected need in 2014.

That’s when the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is expected to open up health care access to an estimated 540,000 Colorado residents who currently have no health insurance.

Tanah Wagenseller, Colorado Community Health Centers spokeswoman,…