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Denver Health's NurseLine, 303-739-1211, provides telephone triage and health care information seven days a week, 24 hours per day to callers in the Denver metro area and assists them in making informed decisions regarding their health care.

Our NurseLine is staffed by a group of highly trained and experienced registered nurses, whose backgrounds include emergency medicine, maternal-child, medical-surgical and critical care. All registered nurses receive initial training and ongoing continuing education through approved programs.
Community Health Services Minimize
lacasa2.jpg Denver Health's Community Health Services (CHS) is the second oldest and largest community health center program in the United States. In March 1966, the nation's second community health center, called Eastside Family Health Center (the first health center west of the Mississippi River) began serving patients in an old bakery located in Denver's Five Points neighborhood.  In its 42-year history, CHS has expanded into a network of eight community health centers and 12 school-based health clinics serving one out four residents in the City and County of Denver. CHS has more then 320,000 patient contacts annually. Denver Health is an integrated, seamless delivery system, that includes public health services, an acute care hospital in Denver Health Medical Center, including emergency and trauma services, and Denver Community Health Services. CHS is funded by a federal grant and governed by a 13-member board of directors, who are appointed by the Mayor of Denver.
Mobile Mammography Minimize
mammovan.gifAccording to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among U.S. women. Early detection of breast cancer is the key to saving lives.

To encourage women to get screened, women in Denver Health's service areas have easy and convenient access to breast examinations through our mobile mammography van.

This fully equipped bus serves as a free-standing clinic as it travels among our nine family health centers offering mammograms, pap smears, pelvic examinations and breast screening exams.

Funding for the mammovan is provided by The Avon Foundation, Denver Community Health Services, in partnership with the University of Colorado Cancer Center, the Latino/a Research and Policy Center and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The mammovan is accredited by the American College of Radiology.

Community Voices Minimize

cv.jpgOriginally launched in 1998 by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Community Voices project is in its third phase. For the past five years and during this new phase, Community Voices sites are making a significant contribution to understanding the health care challenges facing communities, advancing recommendations for change, and implementing solutions. Designed to strengthen community support services and to help ensure the survival of safety net providers, Community Voices sites across the country are piloting different approaches to improve health care delivery and formulate new policy solutions. These locally-developed solutions are providing the nation a health blueprint for change.

Community Voices program areas include: access to care, community health outreach, case/care management, oral health, mental/behavioral health and substance abuse; and men's health.

Reaching out to underserved populations has been the hallmark of Denver Health Community Voices. Community Health Advisors serve as Denver Health ambassadors, going into hard-to-reach neighborhoods and connecting people with the care and services they need. Community outreach has been particularly effective in Denver's Latino, African-American and Native-American communities, bringing underserved individuals into the public health system.
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