Tag: peak vista community health centers
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Free transportation under Medicaid shut down for one of El Paso County’s largest providers
Since MedRide, a Colorado Springs-headquartered free transportation service for Medicaid recipients, enacted cutbacks on certain rides last Tuesday, patients and healthcare providers have been experiencing the effects. “People are kind of being left high-and-dry with a company they’ve been using for years,” said Jason Jones, a caseworker at Fountain Valley Health Care, a full-service primary…
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MedRide ends free transportation under Medicaid
Since MedRide, a Colorado Springs-headquartered free transportation service for Medicaid recipients, enacted cutbacks on certain rides last Aug. 26, patients and healthcare providers have been experiencing the effects. “People are kind of being left high-and-dry with a company they’ve been using for years,” said Jason Jones, a caseworker at Fountain Valley Health Care, a full-service…
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AROUND TOWN: All-time U.S. Paralympic medal champ to headline Breakfast of Champions
It’s always a fun night with a big nonprofit secret and July 30 was the 2026 unveiling. Several months in advance of Peak Vista Community Health Centers’ signature Breakfast of Champions fundraising morning, this year on Oct. 15, donors, community advocates and the members of the organization’s boards are invited to be the first to…
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Terminated doctors, nurse practitioner reach settlement with Peak Vista Community Health Centers
Editor’s note: This article has been updated from the original to reflect comments from the head of Peak Vista Community Health Centers. After a nearly two-year legal fight, four physicians and one nurse practitioner formerly employed by Peak Vista Community Health Centers, headquartered in Colorado Springs, have reached a $1.2 million settlement over their complaints…
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‘You don’t have to carry it alone’: Colorado Springs woman turns struggle with schizophrenia into advocacy
The invisible friends Cat Price talked about in childhood were chalked up to an active imagination, and her adolescent angst and hostility got interpreted as teenage rebellion. When, as a high school freshman in Colorado Springs, she had thoughts of suicide, began harming herself and experienced a full-blown psychotic break — during which she completely…
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Community lecture on schizophrenia treatment
A free community lecture by a national expert on schizophrenia treatment will be held from 8 a.m. to noon on Dec. 10 at Peak Vista Community Health Centers, 2828 International Circle, Suite 120, in Colorado Springs. The main speaker, Dr. Rob Laitman, is a New York physician who specializes in the use of clozapine to…
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Peak Vista Community Health Centers president and CEO to step down amid unionization of doctors
Dr. Emily Ptaszek, a licensed psychologist, will vacate her position as president and CEO of Peak Vista Community Health Centers at the end of March, as she’s chosen not to renew her three-year contract, the nonprofit health care provider announced Friday. Ptaszek will take “a leadership role in health care consulting, one that will allow…
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Majority of Peak Vista doctors, other advanced practitioners vote to unionize; employer to appeal
Sixty-four of 91 physicians and other advanced practitioners who work for Peak Vista Community Health Centers based in Colorado Springs cast ballots about whether they wanted to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists. A majority of 49 providers said “yes” during a mail-in ballot process that began more than a month ago. Fifteen…
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Peak Vista doctors fired over the summer were wrongly terminated, labor board rules
Peak Vista Community Health Centers, the region’s largest health care provider for low-income, uninsured and indigent clients, denies any wrongdoing and disputes the interpretation of the findings.
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Peak Vista doctors fired over the summer were wrongly terminated, labor board rules
Peak Vista Community Health Centers, the region’s largest health care provider for low-income, uninsured and indigent clients, denies any wrongdoing and disputes the interpretation of the findings.