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Denver Health details 2Q sales-tax spending on clinics, mental health beds and access expansions
Summary
Denver Health told the City Council committee it plans to use 2Q sales-tax revenue across five buckets—emergency and trauma care, primary care, pediatrics, mental health and substance-use services—and described capital and staffing investments including a Southeast clinic site at Evans and Monaco.
Denver Health presented a public accounting of how it is spending revenue from the 2Q sales-tax initiative, saying the funds are organized into five principal buckets: emergency and trauma care, primary care, pediatrics, mental health and substance-use services.
Donna Lynn, Denver Health’s chief executive, said the organization treats a large share of Denver’s uninsured and that uncompensated-care costs rose sharply after 2020. Lynn said the city’s annual medically indigent payment has been effectively flat in recent years (figures cited in the meeting were approximately $30.7 million) and that 2Q revenue was intended to help cover…
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