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Colorado is currently experiencing a significant youth mental health crisis. Suicide is the leading cause of death for young people in the state, and Children’s Hospital

We asked Partners for Children’s Mental Health (PCMH) a few questions about why they sought to partner with ECHO to disseminate knowledge about pediatric suicide prevention

The Autism ECHO program at the University of Colorado/Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) began in January 2019 to address the need for more timely access to services

Lindsey Harr, PA-C, started attending ECHOs in 2020 when she joined Adolescent Reproductive Health in Primary Care (ARH). In the same month COVID hit and she

The Peer Mentored Care Collaborative (PMCC) was excited to be a sponsor of Public Health in the Rockies 2024 (PHiR), held last week in Keystone, Colo.

Data released in February by the CDC identified Colorado as one of five states with a maternal syphilis rate that rose more than 400% from 2016

The Peer Mentored Care Collaborative (PMCC), based at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, will expand crucial telehealth services to rural Colorado with the help

ECHO Colorado, part of University of Colorado’s Peer Mentored Care Collaborative (PMCC), recently launched the ninth and final asynchronous course as part of the CDC-funded Long

After 21 cohorts since July 2020 and more than 1,000 participants, Past the Pandemic’s last cohort starts May 23. This six-week ECHO series offers providers and

The U.S. is facing an overall shortage of physicians, at least half of which is among specialty medicine physicians such as urologists. The declining urology workforce

The University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Peer Mentored Care Collaborative (PMCC) is one of three projects championed by members of the Colorado congressional delegation to

ECHO Colorado was excited to support the CASCHEW 2024 Conference in March, in partnership with CO-CEAL and SNOCAP. A big thank you to our presenters and

The Peer Mentored Care Collaborative (PMCC), a business unit within the CU Anschutz Dean of Medicine’s Office, consists of two innovative programs: ECHO Colorado and the

As we kick off the new year we have much to celebrate. Thanks to you, our partners and colleagues, we have continued to grow our programmatic

David Saxon MD, assistant professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine and chief of endocrinology at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, has joined

The prevalence of burnout and increasing concerns about retention of employees across the landscape of health care and public health workers created a mandate for intervention

The MetaECHO 2023 Global Conference (September 18-21 in Albuquerque) convened over 900 ECHO leaders, experts, staff, funders, global health policy experts, government officials, academic leaders and

Devin Miller has joined the Peer Mentored Care Collaborative/ECHO Colorado as the new Director of Operations. She brings ten years of public health experience in clinical

Adolescent Reproductive Health for Nurses, Educators and People Who Work with Youth is a new ECHO On-Demand series designed to fit your schedule and pace. This

Data suggest that as many as one in 10 Coloradans have experienced long COVID, and that brain fog and cognitive impairment are present in about 25

The Long COVID and Fatiguing Illness Recovery Program (LC&FIRP) quarterly courses are CDC-funded asynchronous learning sessions being offered by Family Health Centers of San Diego, the

The Newcomer Health ECHO series is designed to increase medical providers’ knowledge of the resettlement and health issues of newcomers, including refugee, immigrant and migrant (RIM)

ECHO’s popular Adolescent Reproductive Health in Primary Care is now an online course! ECHO On-Demand: Adolescent Reproductive Health in Primary Care is a new course designed

ECHO facilitator/presenter/partner Dr. Micol Rothman presented at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) 27th Scientific Symposium in Montreal this past September. WPATH is an

Congratulations to Joe Saseen, PharmD, recipient of this year’s Chancellor’s Teaching Recognition Award for the School of Pharmacy! This award recognizes and rewards outstanding teaching. Award

Each year the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) elects members of distinction into the ATA College of Fellows. This honor recognizes individuals for their significant achievements in

Visit www.echo-arh.org to find useful resources for providers, families and patients, scroll through monthly pearls for quick, case-based topic review, and sign-up for upcoming ECHO series.

Jennifer Stroh, DO, is a family medicine physician with a solo practice in Grand Junction, CO. She plans to attend her fourth ECHO series, Rheumatology in

ECHO Colorado is starting off the new year right by welcoming our newest team member Stephanie Grim! Stephanie joins the Peer Mentored Care Collaborative/ECHO Colorado team

The goal was to improve access to diagnosis and care for children with autism when the series started in February 2019. Today, after 11 cohorts, more

Dr. Kotz is a family physician in Basalt, Colo., who has been practicing full-time since 1991. He has participated in nine ECHO series since 2018, including Rheumatology

On May 25, Children’s Hospital Colorado pleaded with state lawmakers to fund residential mental healthcare as it was experiencing a state of emergency in pediatric mental

View and share the ECHO Colorado Fall 2021 eNewsletterhere or sign up for our new monthly edition coming in October 2021.

Past the Pandemic: Mental Well-being for You and Your Patients To Be Offered For the Fifth Time Since Start of Pandemic Past the Pandemic: Mental Well-being

ECHO Colorado (Extension for Community Health Outcomes), in partnership with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), is currently offering the National Nursing Home COVID

The voices of providers are urgently needed to help address the existing challenges of our current healthcare system. COVID-19 has only served to highlight many of

COVID-19 Just-in-Time ECHO for Primary Care is an ECHO Colorado learning series that was created to provide up-to-the-minute information about the pandemic for the state’s primary

Leslie Eber, MD, CMD, a lead expert for ECHO Colorado’s National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network, will speak about vaccine development and distribution during the Dec.

ECHO Colorado has joined a nationwide training program to help keep COVID-19 from spreading in Colorado nursing homes and to prepare and equip staff so that

Governor Jared Polis sent a video message to participants of COVID-19 Just-in-Time ECHO for Primary Care. View the video here.

ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) Colorado and Project CORE (Coordinating Optimal Referral Experiences) have combined resources to create Peer Mentored Care Collaborative (PMCC), a new

The COVID-19 pandemic presents unique challenges for students at higher education institutions across the country, and CU Anschutz School of Medicine’s doctors-to-be are anything but immune.

ECHO Colorado task force member Cody Dashiell-Earp was interviewed about her clinic’s transition to telehealth, which happened very quickly! Read the article here.

Here’s a great opinion piece that appeared last week in the New England Journal of Medicine called On Becoming a Plague Doctor. It’s written by Dr.

Read the latest Adolescent Reproductive Health clinical pearl. It’s full of tips and resources for providers in the time of COVID-19. Special thanks to Eliza Buyers

Physical distancing has been the only widespread intervention to slow the spread of COVID-19. This has upended the majority of health delivery models. Virtual visits were

View and share the ECHO Colorado Spring Quarterly here or sign up for the Summer Quarterly coming in August.

Victoria Myers, one of ECHO Colorado’s program coordinators, will speak at the Telehealth20 Value-Based Care Summit this June in Austin, TX. Myers talk, entitled “Using a

In response to an increase in the need for knowledge around the provision of health care services for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in Colorado, ECHO