CEOs: Health-care industry still needs correcting

BOULDER — Health-care professionals are concerned that the current wave of new health-care facilities including hospitals and stand-alone emergency rooms going up in Boulder County and Northern Colorado will harm rather than help the region’s health-care system.

“Too much capacity is being built,” Peter Powers, vice president of operations for Longmont United Hospital, said Tuesday at BizWest’s CEO Roundtable on health care. “We already have too many beds that are underutilized.” Power said statewide hospitals are using 61 percent of the beds already in service. “The state is the fifth lowest nationwide for utilization based on population,” he said.

UCHealth is building…