Neighbors Health enters crowded Greeley emergency market

GREELEY – Another player is stepping into the emergency-care arena in Northern Colorado, as Houston-based Neighbors Health System prepares to open a stand-alone emergency room in Greeley next month.

The company operates 29 facilities in its home base of Texas and is expanding into Colorado in a big way, with free-standing emergency departments under construction in Aurora and Pueblo, as well as Greeley.

It’s a trend that has seen tremendous growth in the last decade or so. A recent report from Medpac, a nonpartisan agency advising…