Health Care & Insurance  June 16, 2017

Help wanted, stat! New hospitals trigger healthy competition for workers

Drivers heading north from Denver on Interstate 25 aren’t yet confronted with a road sign reading “Hospital: Next 14 Exits” — but it may not be long.

Major new health-care facilities have sprouted along the busy I-25 corridor in Fort Collins and Loveland, a new hospital will open on the eastern edge of Longmont late this summer, and another is likely to be up and running by 2019 in Greeley — not to mention a new hospital that opened last year in Broomfield. In addition, new clinics, urgent-care…

With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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