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Denver Health, rural Colorado hospitals that needed cash infusions are working toward financial recovery

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

Three Colorado hospitals that faced severe cash crunches in the last year are getting closer to financial recovery, but still need to make changes to be sustainable in the long term.Two of the hospitals are small rural facilities: St. Vincent Health in Leadville and Delta Health on the Western Slope. The third, Denver Health, is the city’s urban safety-net facility treating large numbers of uninsured people. All three received significant cash infusions to tide them over.The state legislature made a $5 million emergency appropriation in February to help stabilize Denver Health, which had seen its uncompensated care costs double since 2020 and lost more than $31 million on patient care in 2022. CEO Donna Lynne said the hospital was down to about 75 days’ worth of cash on hand, when a comfortable cushion would be about six months’ worth.Days cash on hand essentially refers to how long a hospital could cover its normal expenses if no reimbursement came in. While it...

CSU Rams vs. Utah Tech football: How to watch, storylines and staff predictions

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

Colorado State (1-2) vs. Utah Tech (1-3)When/where: 5 p.m. Saturday/Canvas StadiumTV/Radio: Mountain West Network/1600 AM, 104.3 HD2BetMGM Line: No lineWeather: 79 degrees, mostly cloudyFive storylinesAir Raid, Part I: The wide-open passing game Jay Norvell promised back when he was hired in December 2021 has arrived. One of the primary reasons: The Rams offensive line is giving quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi time to throw. Through three games, the Rams have allowed just five sacks total, only one of which came in last week’s win over Middle Tennessee State. A year ago, the Rams had allowed five sacks before their first game was even finished.Air Raid, Part II: The end result of that protection? Fowler-Nicolosi is picking defenses apart. Through two starts, the redshirt freshman has thrown for 688 yards and five touchdowns, cementing himself as CSU’s starter. Fowler-Nicolosi is spreading the ball around, too. The pass-catching trio of receivers Tory Horton (104.3) a...

CU Buffs vs. USC Trojans football: How to watch, storylines and staff predictions

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

No. 8 USC (4-0) at Colorado (3-1)When/where: Saturday, 10 a.m./Folsom FieldTV/Radio: FOX/850 AMBetMGM Line: USC -21.5, 73.5 over/underWeather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83Five storylinesResponse to adversity: Last Saturday was the first time the Buffs were brought back down to earth in the Coach Prime Era after thrilling wins over TCU, Nebraska and CSU in double OT to start the season. Now it’s time to see what sort of gusto CU really has against a USC program that’s owned CU. If the Buffs come out and get embarrassed again, the rest of the Pac-12 schedule will seem twice as daunting. Time for CU to answer the bell.Buffs’ non-existent run game: CU had 55 net rushing yards against TCU, 58 against Nebraska, 70 against CSU and 40 against Oregon. That equates to only 55.8 yards per game, which is making the CU offense one-dimensional, and, in turn, making quarterback Shedeur Sanders’ job twice as difficult. Unless CU can start to establish some ground-and-po...

Keeler: Has Deion Sanders turned CU Buffs into 2023 version of Pete Carroll’s USC Trojans? From The Rock to Lil Wayne, Boulder’s where stars want to be.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

BOULDER — Who needs Will Ferrell when you’ve got Lil Wayne and Ralphie?A year ago at this time, the home sideline at Folsom Field was radioactive. Now it’s the new Crypto.com Arena, the sporting venue where stars — we’re talking A-list dudes: The Rock, Master P, Offset, Terrell Owens — want to be seen.“That doesn’t happen anywhere, for real, unless you’re in Los Angeles and you’re winning,” LenDale White, former Broncos running back, USC star and Chatfield High state champ told me a few days ago. “Bama? People don’t stop there (unless) you’re winning. (Then) people want to be a part of that.“But for people to already be at CU and seeing that excitement already. I haven’t seen that effect in college football. Even in my (time at USC), I was on teams where we had two Heisman winners and my spring game never had a sellout crowd or stuff like what the CU spring game had.”White was a Denver ki...

Broncos Journal: Cornerback Damarri Mathis has a plan to overcome his early season struggles: “Play with swag”

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

Damarri Mathis is no stranger to slow starts.As a rookie, he drew four defensive pass interference penalties in his first career start Week 6 at the Los Angeles Chargers.Now a second-year player, Mathis has struggled out of the gates as the Broncos’ starting cornerback opposite Pat Surtain II.Playing across from Surtain, who most quarterbacks tend to avoid from the start, is not easy duty by any stretch.But Mathis has been picked on. Las Vegas did it with Jakobi Meyers while Surtain put down a quietly ridiculous performance against All-Pro Davante Adams. Then Washington worked to get Terry McLaurin matched up with Mathis, too.Sunday against Miami, well, pretty much everybody struggled.Mathis, the former Pitt standout, is most comfortable in man coverage and still learning the nuances of NFL defensive systems. He’s shown he can be a physical tackler, but has missed his share — it’s been a common theme for Denver’s defense in general — so far through three games.Mathis told The Post t...

Single family residence sells for $2.5 million in Palo Alto

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

2352 Saint Francis Drive – Google Street ViewA house located in the 2300 block of Saint Francis Drive in Palo Alto has a new owner. The 937-square-foot property, built in 1947, was sold on Aug. 25, 2023, for $2,475,000, or $2,641 per square foot. This single-story house has two bedrooms and one bath. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. Additionally, the home comes with a one-car garage, allowing for convenient vehicle storage.These nearby houses have also recently been purchased:On Channing Avenue, Palo Alto, in August 2022, a 2,779-square-foot home was sold for $3,570,000, a price per square foot of $1,285. The home has 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.In September 2022, a 1,610-square-foot home on Wildwood Lane in Palo Alto sold for $2,350,000, a price per square foot of $1,460. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 1,661-square-foot home on the 2400 block of Aztec Way in Palo Alto sold in November 2022, for $2,878,000, a price per square foot of $1,733. Th...

Elias: For California police, there’s less heat on the heat for the moment

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

Things were looking negative for individual police officers and police forces in California earlier this year. Job vacancies had piled up, state Attorney General Rob Bonta seemed to launch constant brutality investigations and there was copious negative publicity about the so-called “capture-and-release” of shoplifters and other misdemeanor suspects.Related ArticlesLocal News | Elias: California housing costs worse for homeowners than renters Local News | Elias: Newsom-DeSantis debate may mean more in 2028 than 2024 Local News | Elias: California bill’s OK may let thieves ransack any store they please New rules also compelled most police to wear body cameras tracking almost every move they make. All this has been fallout from the death of Black suspect George Floyd in Minneapolis during his 2020 arrest. Late summer brought a fast turnabout for law officers in many places, though.It began with recruiting bonuses and starting salar...

What to play: Expansion DLC gives players new reasons to revisit ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ and ‘Resident Evil 4’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

Downloadable expansions have changed over the years. They used to be ways for developers to capitalize on content that went on the cutting room floor, but slowly, as games left the brick-and-mortar retailers, and became digital, this content became more elaborate and in some cases transformed into projects that were just as good as the original.The past few weeks saw two big expansions. The first comes from CD Projekt Red, which launched its “Phantom Liberty” expansion for “Cyberpunk 2077” and the second is “Separate Ways,” a side story that tells Ada Wong’s side of things in “Resident Evil 4.” That’s in addition to a surprise release from Valve, which doesn’t happen every day.Here’s what you should be playing this weekend: “Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty” — After a disastrous 2020 launch, CD Projekt Red didn’t write off its sci-fi epic. Instead, the developers kept working on it, revamp...

Santa Cruz County college instructor caught up in child predator decoy sting sentenced to probation

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

SANTA CRUZ — A 63-year-old former Hartnell College instructor was sentenced Thursday to two years probation after pleading guilty to the court in June.Valentin Rodriguez appeared before Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Denine Guy by video from bed at his Watsonville home, according to his attorney.Rodriguez, who is now in an advanced stage of renal failure and awaiting a transplant, according to defense attorney Gary Thelander, agreed to meet a 14-year-old girl with whom he had been exchanging electronic messages and images at the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf on June 7, 2022.Instead of the girl, however, Rodriguez was confronted by an anonymous San Diego-based livestream activist who went by the name “Ghost.” The activist is among a group that operates the CC Unit or “Creep Catching Unit” website, whose members use decoys posed as underage minors and post recordings of sting efforts designed to catch adult sexual predators. The group’s YouTube account has since been suspended fo...

Joby Aviation delivers first eVTOL air taxi to U.S. Air Force ahead of schedule

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:38:34 GMT

MARINA – About six months ahead of schedule, Joby Aviation – a company developing electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles – delivered its first aircraft to Edwards Air Force Base. The aircraft was the first built on Joby’s Pilot Production Line in Marina and is believed to be the first delivery of an electric air taxi in the United States.The company rolled out the first aircraft off its manufacturing line in June after it received the Federal Aviation Administration Special Certificate of Airworthiness for the aircraft. That allowed it to begin flight testing its first production prototype.As part of Joby’s up to $131 million AFWERX Agility Prime contract with the U.S. Air Force, the aircraft has already begun flying at Edwards Air Force Base and is the first electric air taxi to be stationed on a U.S. military base.AFWERX, Air Force Work Project, is a technology directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory and the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force, to a...