Outdoor visitation now allowed
DENVER, June 24, 2020: The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) released guidance today allowing outdoor visitation at residential care facilities. This guidance allows visitors at residential care facilities while minimizing the potential spread of COVID-19. The state decided to implement this guidance now since disease rates in the state are low.
DENVER, June 19, 2020: The State of Colorado received notification on June 15 of Congress’s approval for $1,780,587 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) toward the Immediate Services Program of the Colorado Spirit Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CCP).
Denver (June 18): Today the Governor's Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee voted to update the crisis standards of care guidelines for palliative care and hospice services to take into consideration the challenges presente
DENVER, June 15, 2020: The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is seeking feedback on additional draft guidelines for the Safer at Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors public health order. Coloradans can review draft guidelines in the following areas:
DENVER, June 9, 2020: Visitors to the state’s COVID-19 data dashboard will notice a spike in cumulative hospitalizations yesterday and today. The sizable increase in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is due to the completion of investigations of known cases, not due to new hospitalizations. The change is the result of a new process for investigations that matches and updates past hospitalization data to known cases.
Centennial, Colo. June 8, 2020: The Colorado State Unified Command Group (UCG) received and distributed a fourth shipment of the experimental anti-viral drug remdesivir from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The UCG received 974 vials of the drug in this allocation, which it distributed to five hospital systems and three independent hospitals that serve Coloradans across the state.
Supplies are being distributed in proportion to the number of COVID-19 cases and persons under investigation in hospitals treating COVID-19 patients. The recipients are:
DENVER, June 5, 2020: The Southern Ute Indian Tribe Incident Management Team developed an agreement with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to mobilize a team of qualified health professionals with resources, testing kits, and PPE to conduct free, voluntary drive-thru viral testing for enrolled Southern Ute tribal members and immediate family members. The testing will occur from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 9-11 in the Sky Ute Casino Resort overflow parking lot.
The press release from the Southern Ute Indian Tribe follows with specific details.
