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The First Wave Inside Colorado’s Initial Response To The COVID -19 Pandemic

BY SHANE MONAGHAN

DENVER’S TOP DOCTORS

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COLORADO’S COUNTY JAILS HAVE A SERIOUS SUICIDE PROBLEM

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WE HOPE At National Jewish Health, the nation’s leading respiratory hospital, we breathe hope. Our doctors, scientists and caregivers are working on the frontlines of our community and collaborating across the globe to meet the challenge of COVID-19.

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ECCO is a leader in this field having treated over 400 patients.

PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE (PAD) causes narrowing or blockages of the arteries, resulting in circulation issues which may cause leg pain or wounds, and can even lead to amputation.

The physicians use a number of advanced, nonsurgical treatment methods for this disease to restore blood flow to the legs and prevent long term complications. ECCO prevents over 100 limb amputations annually and the physicians have treated well over 1,000 patients in their careers.

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Top Doctors Our annual list of 339 physicians in 98 specialties.

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Well into the summer of 2020, it had become clear that the same divisions driving so much of our political discourse had bled into the dialogue about the COVID-19 pandemic. As cases around the country started to tick up, videos of Americans becoming completely unhinged when asked to wear masks in restaurants or places of business went viral on social media. That the simple act of wearing a face covering in public, an effective way to protect both yourself and those around you, had become politicized seemed to be a perfect microcosm of the dissension in America. ¶ One thing that can’t be debated, however, is the valiant responses of our health care workers to the virus. Assistant editor Shane Monaghan reported this month’s cover story, “The First Wave” (page 60), to chronicle the early days of the pandemic, when local hospital administrators, doctors, and other health care professionals and staff were adjusting to a remade reality. “Everyone I talked with was dealing with harrowing circumstances,” Monaghan says, “but those challenges seemed to only strengthen their dedication to caring for Coloradans. It left me with a deep sense of gratitude.” The pieces in Monaghan’s feature not only serve as a record of this time, but they also provide inspiration when so much in life seems especially unsettled and contentious. If you hadn’t already decided to wear a mask, perhaps these stories of bravery and selflessness will encourage you to take that easy step, if only out of respect for those working on the frontlines of the pandemic.

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During this difficult time in Denver, we devoted our July cover package to the stories of people and institutions who are leading us through this tumultuous era. Yet, we still have a long way to go. “I was pleased to

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there were 200-plus white people featured in photos and 18 Black people featured in photos.” As Young

points out, this mirrors Colorado’s racial composition, which is over 80 percent white and less than five percent Black. “Perhaps we should be satisfied with that,” Young continued.

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“This leaves five African Americans photographed and included in 5280 for something other than fighting racial oppression.”

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Digital assistant editor Victoria Carodine’s essay on 5280.com questioned the intentions and sincerity of BLM’s white allies in Denver, sparking a complex debate on Facebook. “Interesting story angle, which hasn’t really been reported nationally,” John Recca wrote. “Young white people

co-opting the BLM movement. Perfect, true example of white privilege.” Amanda

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questioning folks who might be value-signaling and nothing more.”

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Lois Brink with her daughter, Helen Gaffigan, Congress Park: “For the past month or so, we’ve opened the windows almost every night. The French doors are my window on the world—I can say hi to friends, watch rainstorms, and deadhead my flower boxes.”

Bob McCormick with his wife, Sherri Moore, West Highland: “I told my wife when we moved out to Colorado [to be near family]: The only thing I really want is a front porch. We’re kind of fixtures on the porch.

I sit here, in my rocking chair, because I feel like it’s my spot.”

Hae Monroe with her daughter, Maya, Lakewood: “I love that sitting on your porch is an indirect way of telling neighbors that you are open to visitors and conversation.

My front porch made me appreciate our street and neighbors so much more.

It’s nice to get a window into their lives.”

Tara Duncan with her husband, Malik, and daughters, Austin and Evan, northeast Denver: “There is something refreshing about lounging in open air that was easy to lose sight of when our lives were packed with activities.

I understand why it’s [our dog] Levi’s favorite place.”

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EDUCATION AFTER-SCHOOL SPECIAL A podcast from two Denver educators teaches lessons about inclusivity.

Pressure to make the grade, make the team, and not make embarrassing mistakes has High school long stressed students out. In Colorado, all students practice finger breathing. that anxiety is contributing to a crisis: The state’s teen suicide rate jumped by 58 percent between 2016 and 2019, and a report from the attorney general points to fears about academic failings as a key risk factor. It’s that kind of anxiety Tessa Zimmerman of Asset Education aims to ease. The four-year-old Denver company creates stress management curricula for the classroom, and research suggests the nearly 20,000 learners Asset reaches see benefits—in a 2018 Denver Public Schools study of two different classrooms, 60 percent of students reported feeling less frazzled after practicing Asset’s techniques for a year.

With the pandemic inducing even more tension than usual, we asked Zimmerman to share three exercises to calm your kids (and yourself). —ANGELA UFHEIL

Three techniques from Asset Education to help your backto-schooler relax this year.

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BODY SCAN Close your eyes (or look at the floor), breathe deeply, and bring your attention to your feet.

Wiggle your toes. Notice how your socks feel. If you have uncomfortable sensations in your feet, visualize that tension dissipating. Move on when you’re ready. Work up your body, part by part, until you reach the top of your head, paying attention to where you carry stress and breathing deeply to relax.

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GRATITUDE FLIP Start by taking several unhurried, deep breaths, and identify an obstacle that’s frustrating you. Think about why it’s frustrating you. Then try to identify a reason to be grateful for the challenge. Asset Education provided this example: “I’m grateful that I wasn’t invited to dinner with my friends because now I know that that’s not how I want to treat people.”

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FINGER BREATHING Gently hold your left thumb with your right hand and take a deep, slow breath in. Slowly exhale, then move your left hand to hold your right thumb. Inhale, then exhale. Switch again, using your right hand to grasp your left index finger. Inhale, then exhale. Use your left hand to hold your right index finger. Follow this calming pattern until you’ve taken a breath while clasping each of your fingers.

downloaded 25,000 times. They host guests, too, such as DPS superintendent Susana Cordova and activist Boots Riley, director of 2018’s indie hit Sorry to Bother You. Their frank approach has garnered praise from parents, students, and colleagues. With budget cuts and COVID-19 looming—and protests bringing racial justice to the forefront— they’ll have plenty to school us on when the fifth season starts mid-August. —KIM HABICHT Visit 5280.com for a Q&A with Muñoz and Adams.

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Before Gerardo Muñoz (at left below) and Kevin Adams ever thought about starting a podcast, they were practicing for the part: They spent hours chatting about being the only male teachers of color at the Denver Center for International Studies, part of the Denver Public Schools (DPS) system. “It was cathartic, but it also reflected a perspective we weren’t hearing in staff meetings,” Adams says. In Colorado, 87 percent of public school teachers are white. Hoping to ease the loneliness they believed other educators of color also felt—and inform white listeners—the two started a biweekly podcast, Too Dope Teachers and a Mic, in 2015. Since then, their discussions about the Black Lives Matter movement, the 2019 teacher strikes, and more have been

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In late March, as a surge of coronavirus cases began to overwhelm New York City, Mark Dowd, the chief innovation officer of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), placed a frantic call to Colorado. He was trying to reach Puro UV Disinfection Lighting, but it was late on a Saturday and the company’s office was empty. Desperate, Dowd tried the Denver mayor, then the mayor of Lakewood, where Puro is based. Finally, at almost 10 p.m., Dowd reached Brian Stern, the company’s co-founder. By Monday, Stern was in New York; a few days later, Stern had sketched out a plan to outfit the entire MTA system, the largest transit network in North America, with high levels of ultraviolet (UV) light technology capable of killing 99.9 percent of existing pathogens—including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Stern and Webb Lawrence, classmates at the University of Denver, had their first bright idea in 2009, when they started LED Supply Co., a wholesaler of energy-efficient bulbs. The business exploded, landing on Inc. magazine’s list of the country’s 5,000 fastest-growing companies in 2014, ’15, and ’17. Last year, the duo expanded into UV, partnering with a manufacturer in Florida to make tech that was smaller—more convenient and less expensive—than other full-spectrum UV disinfectant products.

Think of full-spectrum UV light as the closest approximation we have to the sun’s actual rays.

Although we always experience UVA (wrinkles) and UVB (sunburns and skin cancer), most UVC gets absorbed or reflected by Earth’s atmosphere before reaching the surface. But it’s a powerful germicide, and Stern and Lawrence believed hospitals and doctors’ offices would clamor for such cleansing power. (A scientist at Columbia University in New York independently verified UVC kills the virus that causes COVID-19.) Sure enough, by early 2020, the health care industry made up 70 percent of Puro’s growing revenue.

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Once the novel coronavirus arrived in the United States, Puro realized other sectors, such as transit and hospitality, could be obvious beneficiaries. “It became clear to me that certainty is going to be a good commodity for businesses to have,” says Mike Dudick, the CEO of Breckenridge Grand Vacations, which owns five Summit County resorts.

That’s why, when Breckenridge Grand reopened June 1, the company began using Puro Sentries—essentially UV tripods—in every room after guests departed. Along with making rooms safer for guests, Dudick believes that level of disinfection will boost business during a difficult period.

Delivering that assurance has been a boon for Puro, too. In addition to Breckenridge Grand, Puro’s tripods and permanent fixtures (about the size of a threeinch-thick iPad, they can be activated remotely when people aren’t present) now cleanse MTA’s buses, subway cars, and transit centers as well as suites in a Las Vegas hotel. “We’ve done three times more sales this month than we did last month,” Stern said in May, “and last month was our biggest month on record.”

Stern and Lawrence also predict this growth is more than just a pandemic pop.

COVID-19, they say, will make pathogen disinfection a luxury amenity, like an infinity pool or turndown service, even after a vaccine is available. “If you could pay $25 a night to know your room was disinfected, would you pay that during flu season?” Stern asks. “I definitely would.” —SPENCER CAMPBELL

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Why tackle those weighty themes in a thriller?

I love crime fiction, and I think it’s suited for Native writers because you can examine injustice and how it’s resolved. And it’s not always resolved in a way that’s fair to Native Americans.

How so?

Native nations have limited power to look into crimes and punish lawbreakers. They have to turn cases over to the FBI, which doesn’t always investigate or prosecute. I also touch upon poverty on reservations and other problems. It’s not a catalog of gripes, because I want it to be a page-turner. But it’s informational, because Natives are rarely seen in the broader media culture. I’m hoping that more Native writers will turn to crime fiction to let people know what’s happening today on tribal lands.

Is it rare for indigenous authors to write thrillers?

There are a number of crime novels written by non-Native folks that are set on reservations, but not many that have been written by an actual Native person.

Winter Counts packs a lot into its 336 pages: Written by Denver’s David Heska Wanbli Weiden, 56, the thriller follows Virgil Wounded Horse, a private enforcer hired to rough up crooks when the legal system fails.

But after a heroin overdose hospitalizes his nephew, Virgil must find the supplier while confronting problems that mirror real-life issues on U.S. reservations. Before the book’s August 25 release, we asked Weiden about his Sicangu Lakota identity, seeking justice on tribal lands, and why he thinks more Native Americans should write crime fiction. —AU

There’s more at play than drug dealers in David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s debut novel.

5280: Winter Counts is set on South Dakota’s Rosebud Indian Reservation, where your mother is from. Did visiting as a child influence the book?

David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Very much so.

At the reservation, they’d think I was this wealthy, half-Native city kid, which was funny, as I lived in

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Elyria-Swansea, one of Denver’s poorest neighborhoods. And I didn’t know many Native kids in Denver, which fostered a sense of otherness.

That feeling is central to the story.

Both the hero and his nephew are taunted on the reservation for being an “iyeska,” a term in the Lakota

Why do you think that is?

For too long, the publishing industry expected us to follow the path laid out by some of the trailblazers of Indigenous literature, who wrote magical and literary realism. I love their work, but there are lots of different genres to write in. I’m happy to hear that there are more Native crime writers emerging.

In your book, the Mile High City plays a surprise role.

Some of the story takes place in Denver, and I was thrilled to build in some city lore. Virgil has a pivotal moment in the Hangar Bar on East Colfax. Now, sadly, it’s closed, but I enjoyed showing how Denver has changed.

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FEMME FRONTIER Even if you don’t know Alexandrea Pangburn’s name, you likely know her murals: The 31-year-old painted the elk welcoming guests to Edgewater Public Market and, along with fellow local artist Romelle, the crane on Il Posto in Five Points. Now, following a 2019 stint as CRUSH Walls’ creative director, Pangburn is launching Babe Walls, a four-day mural festival in Westminster showcasing female and nonbinary artists. The paint hits the walls on August 13; in the meantime, here’s what fuels the former vet tech’s imagination. —AU

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science Before moving to Golden in 2017, Pangburn worked as a vet tech in Ohio and painted portraits of her patients.

Today, she’s inspired by the animals preserved in DMNS’ wildlife hall. “It gives me a sense of their fur texture, their eyes, how they might move,” Pangburn says. “I try to capture that emotion in my pieces.” dmns.org

American Museum of Western Art The Central Business District museum displays 300-plus privately owned depictions of Native Americans, settlers, and frontier land—such as “Red Hills, Grey Sky”

by Georgia O’Keefe, beloved by Pangburn for her sensual interpretations of the Southwest. anschutzcollection.org

South Table Mountain Pangburn used the cacti-studded mesa above Golden as the backdrop for her series Women of the West, paintings depicting the women who made frontier life possible. alexandreapangburn.com

Hot Cocoa Pangburn sips this rich drink nearly every morning. “I’m basically five years old,” she jokes. The connoisseur likes DC/AM at the Ramble Hotel’s milky take and the sweeter version from Strong, Smart & Bold Beans, run by nonprofit Girls Inc., which fosters young women’s creativity. theramblehotel.com; girlsincdenver.org

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ReRoot “I’m drawn to the juxtaposition between life and death,” Pangburn says.

Her workshop conveys as much: Plants and flowers—many from ReRoot, a houseplant boutique that recently moved from RiNo to Five Points—sit beside a taxidermic pheasant and an assortment of beaver skulls.

Her favorite piece of the bunch? A cow skull she found in Kentucky, then cleaned, bleached, and preserved herself. rerootgardens.com

Clockwise from top right: Sarah Boyum; Courtesy of Coburn Huff; Getty Images; Courtesy of Alexandrea Pangburn (“Sunrise Snaffle” by Alexandrea Pangburn); Courtesy of Kaitlin Ziesmer (“Maude” by Kaitlin Ziesmer); Courtesy of Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Courtesy of American Museum of Western Art/the Anschutz Collection (“Red Hills, Grey Sky” by Georgia O’Keeffe)

To help run Babe Walls, Pangburn recruited five local artists she admired as co-founders—including Ziesmer, known for her kooky animal-human hybrid paintings. “I’m inspired by her work ethic and organization,” Pangburn says. “And her color palette is so fun.” kaitlinziesmer.com

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Rescuing The Rescuers Over the course of two months during the summer of 2006, Evergreen’s Alpine Rescue Team (ART) recovered 10 dead bodies. Tom Wood, one of the group’s members, remembers the toll that exposure to trauma exacted on the squad. Morale was low. Volunteers became irritable or avoidant. Some even quit.

At the time, Colorado search and rescue (SAR) teams didn’t fully understand the mental health impacts that the job, which is done almost entirely by volunteers, could level. Dealing with death was part of the gig, Wood says; if you couldn’t handle it, you weren’t cut out for the work. However, an increased recognition of how psychological stress injuries develop is forcing the SAR community and the local governments they serve to realize that “toughening up” isn’t a prescription for good mental health. And with Colorado’s 50 SAR teams responding to around 3,000 calls in 2019—a number that has significantly increased in recent years, likely due to rising backcountry traffic—those groups are looking for ways to help.

Emotional stress injuries work like physical stress fractures: The more trauma a person experiences without adequate recovery, the more likely they are to develop more serious problems.

For SAR volunteers like Wood, the strain comes not only from the grisliest incidents, such as recovering dead bodies after accidents or suicides, but also from long, fruitless searches for missing people. “It’s not realistic that [what you see] will never bother you,” Wood says. “I would be on my daily commute, getting really, really angry with the drivers around me—and they weren’t driving any worse or any better than they had in the months before.” Most volunteers also work full-time jobs yet still get called out on nighttime missions, which disrupt their sleep and deplete their internal abilities to deal with what they’ve experienced.

Backcountry missions pile pressure on SAR volunteers—but new programs intend to help them heal.

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Those side effects can divide SAR members from loved ones and activities they once enjoyed and also lead to depression. Yet, because of workers’ compensation restrictions, most volunteers don’t receive reimbursement for health care or mental health services. If they seek professional help, they typically pay for it themselves.

Recently, however, Colorado SAR teams have begun working to change that.

In 2019, Rocky Mountain Rescue Group in Boulder launched a resiliency plan; Evergreen’s ART did the same this past May. Both connect SAR volunteers to experts such as Laura McGladrey, a nurse practitioner at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. “How do you build resiliency?” asks McGladrey.

“Strong bodies, sleep, movement, good food, connection with others, space for integration in the form of meditation or some downtime.

We work on building those into people’s lives.”

While such programs remain a rarity, some Colorado legislators are trying to expand the safety net. Earlier this year, the state Senate, in collaboration with the Colorado Search and Rescue Association, introduced a bill seeking to address the challenges associated with search and rescue, including its psychological consequences.

(The bill stalled in committee when the legislative session was shortened due to COVID-19, but it will likely be reintroduced next year.)

The hope? That in the future, Coloradans are just as prepared to help SAR teams as SAR teams have been to help Coloradans. —MEREDITH SELL

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Hiwot Solomon is obsessed with baking. Her cousin, Mickias Alamirew, is equally devoted to Ethiopian coffee. Together, they have re-created their homeland’s delicious (albeit postcolonial) tradition of pairing a Western-style dessert with a cup of coffee at Solomon’s Aurora bakery, HiRa Cafe & Patisserie. Solomon has vivid memories of visiting similar cafes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, for a slice of cake and a cup, a custom she says Ethiopians adhere to whether in their native country or elsewhere in the world. Baking cakes began as a hobby in 2006 when, at age 26, she immigrated to Aurora. Following a decade of working as a restaurant server and with ample encouragement from family and friends, she decided she wanted to make it her career. After earning a pastry and baking degree from the Art Institute of Colorado, Solomon opened HiRa Cafe in February 2019. Since then, she has garnered a loyal following for her fluffy, gently sweet mousse and Black Forest cakes, cardamom- and nutmeg-spiced vanilla sablé cookies, cream puffs, croissants, and ethereal tiramisù made with her cousin’s house-roasted, single-origin Ethiopian brew. You can call ahead to have Solomon make you a custom cake for your next celebration—but don’t wait for a special occasion to visit her bright, peaceful shop for Ethiopian breakfast plates or a sweet treat and a cup of coffee with a friend. —DENISE MICKELSEN

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WHAT’S HOT weapon that’s fueled success at their year-old, self-described Asian and American spot in Englewood: Grandma. Sixtyfour-year-old Chi Nguyen, Davey’s paternal grandmother, is not only the inspiration behind Zomo, but she also runs its kitchen, which is staffed by five other Vietnamese matrons. The fierce seniors execute Zomo’s Vietnamese- and Chineseinfluenced menu according to Nguyen’s recipes, turning out rich pho, vibrant vermicelli noodle bowls, fried rice, and crisp egg rolls made with Filipinostyle wheat-flour wrappers, a savory treat Nguyen’s been perfecting since she emigrated from Vietnam to Stockton, Kansas, in 1975.

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KITSUNE DENVER Tavernetta alums Sam Soell and Marcus Eng have brought the culinary variety and exquisite packaging of Japanese ekiben (train station boxed lunches) to Denver with their four-month-old delivery service. The duo fills each compostable balsa wood bento box with a gorgeous, balanced array of Coloradosourced vegetables (pickled, fresh, and grilled); rice or noodles; proteins such as sashimi, grilled chicken, chashu pork, and crab; and other organic, seasonal ingredients. Look for bentos bursting with local goodies all summer long, as Kitsune’s menus rotate to feature greens,

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menu changes according to the fresh catch, but expect specialties like pristine Tasmanian salmon belly sashimi and Japanese hamachi with apple and chimichurri. Let the chefs choose what’s best for you with the relatively affordable omakase experience, which awards you 10 pieces of sushi and a special roll for $50.

ZOMO MAKIZUSHICO In a modest shopping center off Littleton’s South Platte Canyon Road, the sushi chefs at eightmonth-old Makizushico are transforming seafood flown in daily from coastlines around the world into edible works of art. The

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It took three years for owners Ker Zhu and Michelle Wu to open the Aurora outpost of their Los Angeles shop (a debut further delayed this spring by you know what). But the windowwalled restaurant on Montview Boulevard is finally in business as of May, steaming and boiling and pan-frying Wu family recipes redolent with the flavors of northern China, where Wu’s parents were born. There’s no way to choose between the savory pan-fried pot stickers, xiao long bao (soup dumplings), tender shui jiao (boiled dumplings), or flaky jiucai hezi (chive and egg pockets)—so do what we do and order them all.

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One thing made clear by the weird, smooth sameness that characterized the nontragic aspects of the pandemic lockdown was that the “out” part of dining out is as important to me as the food itself. The fact is, during quarantine, I ate better than in most 10-week periods of my life, seeking refuge in cooking as a salve against lost income and lost connection.

But even as I cranked out dishes that could reasonably be rated as “restaurant quality” (the term used in our family since my children were growing up in New York City, because that’s how obsessed with eating out we’ve always been), I was pining for the flow and performative nature of the restaurant experience. Restaurants are theater, at every level, from food truck to omakase temple. The leading role may be played by a cook at El Taco Veloz on Federal Boulevard as he carves al pastor off a seething cone of spicy meat or by the pizzaiolo running traffic control for the 900-degree wood oven at White Pie in Uptown. Even the scenery may be the star: If you’re privileged enough to score a penthouse-level balcony seat at El Five, with a glass of Cava in your hand and an order of patatas bravas on the way, you may happily think to yourself, This is exactly where I need to be, in the midst of the call-and-response experience of good food with good friends and a lucky perch, as the room behind you roars with energy.

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It’s this theatricality, mixed with nostalgia, that made me fall in love with the kitchen-facing counter seats at Q House on East Colfax Avenue. There, chef Christopher Lin’s expert technique results in flashes of fire exploding in air as aerosolized fat ignites when woks are tilted toward burners.

Watching that action always reminds me of eating in Hong Kong as a kid, where the woks were huge and the burners sounded like rocket engines—amazing to a prairie boy whose mom cooked with an electric frying pan.

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The servers were attentive in exactly the right way, so that you felt not isolated or pathetic but, in your own mind at least, an important contributor to the urbane mix. Yes, I will have another glass of Brunello, thanks very much, for there is nowhere better to be right now.

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“I will get a hot Polish,” he said, “or maybe a standard dog with a can of Coke and a bag of chips. Ed will make sure that I fully understand my condiment options.

He will round down the bill. He will assure you that the drinks are ice cold out of the cooler but offer fresh ice if you like.

And as I sit next to the push mower display and savor my few stolen minutes between chores, I will enjoy the entertainment of listening to Ed deliver the whole routine again to the next customer.”

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As June began, early reports were encouraging: Grateful customers were ordering and tipping large. These folks, who presumably did not lose income during the lockdown, will be crucial for the local hospitality industry in the months ahead. Personally, I rushed out three times in the first week, to two patio-friendly restaurants and a fancy cocktail lounge.

Patios in Highland and RiNo looked as crowded as they could legally be. Consumer exuberance, which economists call “animal spirits,” was running high; young people, in particular, apparently needed to be out on the town. (Soon enough came the second closure of bars, for 30 days at least, and industrywide nervousness that restaurants might be shut down next.)

At one place, I had my temperature taken at the door with one of those guns, which was kind of fun. After a few minutes, I more or less stopped noting the bizarre fact of servers wearing masks as if in a surgical theater. In two places, I spoke to owners. Their basic message was: We’re glad that we’re open, but this can’t go on too long. Reduced-capacity rules simply didn’t provide enough revenue, even with the state’s welcome easing of to-go liquor rules and allowance of expanded outdoor seating. So, while I was happy to be out, the food was mostly good, and the service was relaxed and cheery in the Denver style, the experience felt fragile and fraught.

Few businesses, however, are more hopeful than independent restaurants, for they contain within them the energy of both performance art and hospitality. It’s a low-margin activity in part because there are so many people who want a shot at the spotlight on that stage; we diners have always been the beneficiaries of their foolish, beautiful dreams. As local restaurants close in the next year, others will surely open to take their places. Eventually, and sooner than might seem possible, I’m betting that the trajectory of the Denver dining scene will resume the upward path it was on before the lockdown. But fragile and fraught is the current reality for both restaurants and their customers. To those who feed and serve us, good Find our Dining Guide, luck. I hope to dine at an extensive both Ed’s Best Edibles list of area and Beckon, and restaurants, on page 97 a lot more, this summer and online at and fall as we all face the 5280.com/ restaurants. coming winter. m

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Students are leading the movement to weave Black history into Denver Public Schools’ white-centric curriculum— including changes that will be implemented this month.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College principal Kimberly Grayson sits in front of (from left) Zyeria Johnson, Kaliah Yizar, Alana Mitchell, Angel Amankwaah, Jenelle Nangah, Tyisha Hall, and Dahni Austin.

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n October 2019, Zyeria Johnson, a senior at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College (DMLK), visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and for the first time, she recognized that her Denver Public Schools (DPS) education hadn’t taught her what she most needed to know. “It was eye-opening,” says Johnson, who is heading to Jackson State University, a historically Black college in Jackson, Mississippi, this month. “I was appalled and shocked to discover that after years of sitting in classrooms for seven hours a day, I never learned about the civil rights movement, or about Black history. But you cannot teach American history without Black history.”

Johnson had traveled from Denver to D.C. with 17 other Black students and seven faculty from DMLK, a grades six through 12 school in Denver’s Gateway - Green Valley Ranch neighborhood with a student body that’s 59 percent Latino, 25 percent Black, seven percent Asian, and four per-

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cent white. The students and teachers studied exhibits that evoked the horrors of slave ships and beatings administered by enslavers; they reflected on the 1955 murder of 14-yearold Emmett Till and how it was a haunting, terrifying reminder that racial injustice didn’t end with slavery.

The students also took in works about former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, “two individuals who make me feel inspired to stand up and be who I am today,” says Dahni Austin, who was a DMLK freshman when she went to Washington. Filled with a surge of pride and a newfound sense of solidarity as Black Americans, the students vowed to bring the enlightenment back home. “We thought: If this is how we feel by being exposed to Black history, imagine how much greatness we could get in our community if we could bring this back to Denver,” says Jenelle Nangah, who will start her senior year at DMLK this month. It was then that they resolved to change the way DPS schools cover Black heritage—at DMLK and beyond.

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E DUCAT ION KIMBERLY GRAYSON, DMLK’s principal, who is Black, agreed to back her students—though she admits she worried about repercussions. “No one likes to talk about [Black] race,” she says. “It’s a very uncomfortable conversation, and my staff is mostly white. Once terms like ‘hostile work environment’ start to get used, principals can be placed on leave.”

She believed, however, that her seven years of leadership at DMLK (the 2020’21 school year will be Grayson’s eighth year as principal) had established a foundation of trust and collaboration with school staff that was mature enough to support an inquiry into racial equity.

Grayson subsequently funded, via the school’s budget, a November 2019 trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture for DMLK’s history teachers, all of whom are white.

The principal also arranged opportunities for the students to meet with district administrators. In January and February of this year, the students presented their requests for curriculum reform to the DPS board, asking officials to increase the teaching of Black history across all

schools and all grades. The appeal came in the wake of earlier criticisms that DPS’ curriculum was too white-centric. In fall 2019, Stacy Parrish, a member of the Klamath Tribes and principal of Northeast Early College, a high school in the Montbello neighborhood, took issue with assignments that denigrated Native Americans—or overlooked tribal histories and perspectives altogether. DPS came to the same conclusions after its own unrelated 2019 curriculum audits revealed a lack of diversity and equity.

The DMLK teachers returned from D.C. with ideas for Black history units that will be implemented across all grade levels at DMLK in the 2020-’21 school year. New lessons will highlight Black activist Marcus Garvey and the “Black Wall Street” that flourished in Tulsa, Oklahoma, until rioting whites razed that commercial district in 1921 and murdered Black Americans. Sixth graders will study the African kingdoms and the Middle Passage; eighth graders will learn about Black heroes from the Revolutionary and Civil wars; and structural racism will now be the driving force of the 11th graders’ government and

constitution unit (rather than being an adjunct topic, as it had been).

These updates were developed by DMLK teachers and will be taught at that school only. Developing a racially balanced curriculum for the entire school district, with consistent standards that apply to all schools, is a larger undertaking. It’s further frustrated by a lack of teacher resources, says Tamara Acevedo, who oversees DPS’ curriculum as deputy superintendent of academics. Facing History and Ourselves, a national nonprofit that develops teaching materials on racism and other societal injustices, has advised DPS in the past, Acevedo says, but is now “busy working with other districts.”

Across the country, demand for racially and ethnically diverse curricula is surging, but the supply hasn’t kept pace. As DPS acquires resources for teaching Black history and that of other minority groups, it still needs to fine-tune consistent processes for curricula revisions, Acevedo says. Spanning 162 schools, DPS is a slow-steering supertanker—which also happens to be facing a significant budget deficit as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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THE DMLK STUDENTS’ appeal specifically addresses the history of Black Americans, not all people of color. “That’s not to diminish other races,” Grayson says.

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tory, people want to bring in all people of color from all backgrounds.” Broadening the focus may be inclusive, but it can also deflect attention and support away from the topic of Black history, Grayson argues.

“When people raise money for breast cancer, they’re not automatically asked to address prostate or pancreatic cancer. It’s not an either/or situation.”

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been instrumental in leading the local Black Lives Matter protests, agrees with Grayson.

“People need to know the real history of this country,” says Anderson, who graduated from Denver’s Manual High School. “I didn’t have that opportunity in class to learn about my history as a Black man.”

Upcoming students will. Having purchased teaching texts about Black, Latino American, and American Indian experiences from ABC-CLIO, an academic publishing company, the district has revised the eighth and 10th grade U.S. history curricula to include texts by journalist Ida B. Wells and civil rights activist and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

The study of Reconstruction now extends through the Black Lives Matter movement.

Acevedo says the district is in the process of selecting a more ethnically diverse, culturally responsive social studies curriculum for grades K–5 and will soon review 11th grade civics and economics courses.

The district also plans to integrate feedback from external reviewers who evaluated the eighth grade’s U.S. history programming. Efforts are already underway to train Denver’s predominantly white teachers to be sensitive about their own biases and to “develop culturally responsive and antiracist instructional practices.” This past spring, as a result of the DMLK students’ efforts to diversify the curriculum, Acevedo says an initial wave of DPS teachers attended seminars designed to “support teachers’ understanding of race membership and civil discourse.”

The students are building on their success with a new podcast called “Know Justice, Know Peace, DMLK’s ‘The Take.’ ” Launched on July 4, the podcast features a rotating cast of student hosts and will sometimes welcome guests. The episodes are designed to take Black history beyond school walls to a larger audience. “We want [the podcast] to benefit other people,” Nangah says, “so they have a place to go to learn about themselves.” Because, Nangah says, stories define us—for better or worse.

By learning history, you can change the present. “Without your history, you’re lost, and you end up looking for who you are in the stereotypes you hear about Blacks being thugs and criminals. Often, it seems like our goals are not attainable,” Nangah says. “But when you know the worth within your voice and yourself, you can accomplish so many great things. That’s what we’re doing.” m Kelly Bastone is a 5280 contributing writer.

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The First Wave

During the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Colorado hospitals transformed themselves to treat those suffering the virus’ worst effects.

Despite exhaustion, uncertainty, and fear, Denver metro-area health care workers continued to put patients’ needs first. Here, we asked them to explain the things they saw and how they coped throughout the early days of that experience.

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Pandemic Beginnings By late January, Dr. Sam Dominguez sensed the world was about to change. The professor of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine had spent his entire career studying emerging pathogens such as SARS, and the news coming out of China at the time, about a novel coronavirus with a high human-to-human transmission rate, led him to believe a pandemic was possible. “It seemed like there was a tidal wave coming,” says Dominguez, who is also a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado, “and medical facilities needed to gear up.” +

That prognostication proved correct. By March 5, Colorado had its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Come the end of that month, as state and local officials ordered the rest of us to stay home to slow the spread of the virus, Centennial State hospitals were overrun with infected patients— many of them dealing with severe respiratory issues that required them to be on ventilators for more than a month.

The initial onslaught was unlike anything most health care workers had experienced in their careers, and the pervasive lack of knowledge about and understanding of the disease caused an allconsuming sense of uncertainty and anxiety. Proximity to the virus made many fear they’d become infected themselves and potentially pass the virus along to a family member. “There was just so much THE TOP DOCTORS LIST unknown at the beginning of this whole thing,” says Dr. Frank STARTS ON PAGE 70.

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all sorts continued to provide care to those suffering most.

General care nurses took on roles in the ICU; medical facilities shared resources and information about treatment possibilities in ways they hadn’t before; and everyone adapted to wearing much more personal protective equipment (PPE).

The sacrifices made by those frontline workers helped get Colorado to a place where public life was able to return, albeit in a modified form, by June. By mid-July, however, the number of positive cases, as well as hospitalizations, had already started to increase again—a signal that medical facilities would likely have to return to crisis mode.

“The virus is not going away,” Dominguez says.

To highlight the challenges these medical professionals dealt with throughout the spring and early summer, we gathered some of their stories. Collectively, they describe what it was like to work in a hospital during a once-in-acentury global pandemic.

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A CHANGE OF PACE Dr. Frank Lansville has lived through a number of stressful, traumatic situations during his 25-year career, including caring for victims of the Aurora theater shooting in 2012. The first days of COVID-19, however, felt more protracted and uncertain than anything the director of the Medical Center of Aurora’s emergency department had ever experienced. In his own words, Lansville details the anxiety associated with that period.

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In the first few weeks of dealing with COVID-19, I remember a specific elderly woman who came in saying she didn’t feel well. Her husband had already been admitted with COVID-19, but she looked decent despite having the virus. She said to me, I just don’t want to die from this. All of my clinical knowledge suggested she would be OK. So, I told her that. She ended up dying three That was a wake-up call. The woman had days later. moved through the ER, and once she was in the hospital they did everything they could for her with breathing devices. That still wasn’t enough.

I started realizing how little we can do as doctors to fight this disease. Most of the treatment is supportive. We can use some antivirals, and we eventually started giving folks some blood products, but it’s We’ve only been seeing the patients in the not like there is a specific mediworst respiratory condition, though. Early on, cation that works wonders. a lot of folks with mild symptoms were coming to the ER. We didn’t have a lot of tests, and we were keeping the ones we did have to confirm people staying at the hospital were positive.

We had to tell so many people, Yeah, you likely have it, but you have to go home. They would look at you and say, Are you kidding me?

There’s nothing you can do? There was only room for the sickest patients. We added an app called Vivify Health so that we could follow The doctors have fear as well—this is up. Having an outlet the first time in our careers where we’re conwhere they could ask stantly at risk too. The mentality of an ER doc questions helped them is to charge into the room. We still have a feel better. sense of urgency with what we do. But we have to spend more time pausing. Do I have PPE? Can I interact with this patient from a distance? We have to assume everyone who comes in has the virus—even if it was because of a car accident. That change in mentality has come because we want to limit exposure to the disease for ourselves and others.

We need our frontline health care people to keep working.

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Respiratory therapists have found a new level of recognition while managing patients on ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For most of her career, Monika Charyga believed people didn’t fully understand her job. The 28-year-old would mention that she was a respiratory therapist at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, and someone would guess that she examined people’s lung capacities or gave out inhalers. “I’d tell them that’s partly true,” she says. “But people never realized that we work in every area of the hospital—the ER, the ICU, the NICU. And we aren’t just doing routine stuff.

We play a big role in emergency situations.”

Since COVID-19 infiltrated the United States, however, the importance of respiratory therapists—specifically, during challenging procedures—has been on full display, and confusion about the job itself disappeared pretty quickly. The virus unleashes some its most devastating effects on people’s lungs, and thousands of Americans have been put on ventilators in order to survive.

Respiratory therapists are essential when hooking patients up to the machines, and they manage people while they’re on them. Those tasks also put the airway experts in dangerously close proximity to the virus.

By early March, outbreaks in countries like Italy had shown the world that ventilators would be crucial in the fight against the novel coronavirus. American hospitals like Swedish Medical Center in Englewood prepared accordingly. “We were looking at each individual floor, trying to figure out how many oxygen outlets we had,” says Lindsay Bowman, a respiratory therapist at Swedish. Charyga says similar arrangements were being made at St. Anthony while they worked to locate every ventilator possible. The preparation was necessary: As people were admitted,

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many—especially elderly patients—saw their oxygen levels crash quickly. Normally, St. Anthony would have about 15 to 20 patients on ventilators.

That number reached closer to 40 by mid-April.

The process to get people on those machines is known as intubation, and it’s not always an easy procedure under normal circumstances. When it comes to COVID-19, a doctor and a respiratory therapist typically decide to put someone on a ventilator when secretions in the lungs hinder airflow enough to leave a person in danger of becoming hypoxic (lacking enough oxygen to sustain bodily functions). There are limited ways to make the process easier beforehand. “We have a mask we can use to pump up a patient’s oxygen a little bit,” Charyga says. “But with COVID-19 patients, we can’t do that. It involves squeezing a bag that goes through their nose and mouth and gets the virus all over the room.”

Intubation itself is also an aerosol-generating procedure, which means it causes respiratory droplets to be dispersed. To limit exposure to those droplets, health care workers are taking extra precautions during the procedure. The intervention used to last about 45 minutes; it now runs up to two hours.

“It takes more of a mental and emotional toll,” Bowman says.

The amount of time patients are spending on ventilators has also increased. Some are having the machines pump oxygen into, and remove carbon dioxide from, their lungs for more than a month; four days had been a typical time frame before COVID-19. But when people do successfully get taken off the device, it’s worthy of a celebration. “One patient started singing,” Charyga says.

“He had a tube in his throat for a long time, so it was raspy.

But it was so joyful. I’ll never forget it.”

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NEW NORMAL As the official number of Coloradans infected with COVID-19 continued to rise, hospital ecosystems were thrown into flux. Protocols were adjusted daily.

Portions of buildings were transformed. And nearly everyone’s role changed in some manner. We asked four frontline workers to describe how they adapted.

Clockwise from top left: Courtesy of Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center; Courtesy of Sky Ridge Medical Center; Courtesy of Joy Stephens/Denver Health; Courtesy of Sky Ridge Medical Center

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I began working at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s about a month before COVID-19 showed up. When everything started, I wondered if it was worth keeping the job. I was scared I would take COVID-19 home to my family members. But I thought about it more and realized the community needed me. This is where I belong. It doesn’t matter that I am in housekeeping; I can help people as much as a nurse.

Sometimes that’s by cleaning more thoroughly, and sometimes it’s with a simple smile.

—Nhamen Yilma, environmental services employee at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center

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It was tough talking with patients’ family members and friends over the phone, because we weren’t allowing visitors. It’s one thing to say, Yeah, they are stable, doing OK in there. And it’s another thing to see it. You hear the pain in people’s voices when you have to tell them that someone is on oxygen or a ventilator.

We started using an iPad to FaceTime some folks, but it’s not the same.

—Jordan Swartz, ICU nurse at Sky Ridge Medical Center

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We do most testing with an oral swab or a blood draw. The COVID-19 test is a nasopharyngeal swab, which requires you to really go into the nasal cavity. You do it with a little flexible wire that’s about six to seven inches long and has a very small Q-tip on the end. Once it’s in there you have to rotate the swab for five to 10 seconds. It’s uncomfortable for the patient, and nurses were uncomfortable knowing they were making someone feel that way. No one said they didn’t want to do it, but we had to provide some education on it, so we weren’t getting false results.

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We have to wear an N95 mask for every call we go out on. Typically, I am trying to see if I can smell blood, alcohol, things like that, but that is inhibited by the mask.

I also don’t usually hesitate before jumping right in.

That’s what the job demands. Now, if we see someone and they are conscious, we ask them a couple of questions before approaching. Do you have a bad cough? What about a fever? If someone is unconscious, then we try to clear out the people around them. You do the best you can knowing that you’re likely going to be exposed to COVID-19.

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FINDING PURPOSE Throughout the spring, certain sectors of the health care system came to a halt—both so resources could be used to care for COVID-19 patients and to keep the virus from spreading. But some procedures not directly related to treating the disease, such as childbirth, couldn’t stop. Dr. Rania Khan, chair of Littleton Adventist Hospital’s OB-GYN department, told 5280 how working in labor and delivery helped her overcome a personal loss.

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At the end of February, I, myself, was about 27 weeks pregnant. I experienced some complications, and the baby’s heart stopped beating. I ended up losing the child. Testing was done to see if the fetal loss had anything to do with the new coronavirus, but it doesn’t appear it did.

I was supposed to take a lot of time off, but I decided to come back to work after about 14 days. It had a lot to do with COVID-19. I wanted to be present and felt like the department needed some direction. When I returned, I was really nervous I wouldn’t be able to relate to patients. I have been active in administrative Once I did, there was a camaroles for the past three to five raderie I’ve never felt before. Often, years, and I was considering everyone is concerned with things hapoptions where I could stick to pening around the birth, like whether that type of work. After talkthey got a baby shower or how many ing with our mental health people or candles they can have in the support lead, I determined room. I felt like patients were way more it would be helpful to still focused on how to keep both the mom interact with mothers. and baby healthy. Everyone was concerned with the most important aspects of childbirth.

Obviously, parents are really worried. One of the largest studies of pregnant patients was just published, and we aren’t seeing any birth defects related to COVID-19. At Centura facilities, we also haven’t seen any true cases of vertical transmission, which happens when a potentially sick mom passes the disease on to the baby. There have actually been some positive side effects: Typically, newborns lose about five to 15 percent of their weight in the first 48 hours of life. It hasn’t been that drastic recently. That may be related to less visitors and more time Our world would certainly for maternal-fetal bonding. be better if COVID-19 never happened, but the silver linings do exist. For me, I got to think about something else besides my fetal loss.

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Vital Fluids

The Blood Donor Center at Children’s Hospital Colorado was the third facility in the country to begin collecting convalescent plasma, which is used in one of the few COVID-19 treatments that has shown promise. Dr. Kyle Annen, the hospital’s medical director of transfusion services, broke down the steps needed to get the first sample ready in less than 12 hours.

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“We are one of the few hospitals in the state with a blood bank attached, but on March 31, I told the senior manager of transfusion, I’m not sure we should be pursuing convalescent plasma. I don’t know if we’re going to have a significant need in the pediatric population. An hour later, I got a call from a colleague over at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. She had a patient who was intubated, critically ill, and COVID-19 positive. The family was insisting on convalescent plasma, and she asked if we could help. We said we would.”

FIND A DONOR

“I started calling a few folks who had already asked if they could donate convalescent plasma to see if they met the requirements. At the time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stipulated someone needed to have previously tested positive for COVID-19, have been symptomfree for 14 days, and then had a repeat test that said they were negative. I found a person willing to come in that day.”

FAST-TRACK THE PROCESS

“The donor came in and went to the drive-up testing site. We had to wait about three hours for the test, but it eventually came back negative, and we went to work collecting the product. The machines were already in place to do this. It is the same stuff we use to collect plasma on a regular basis. The blood is removed. It’s centrifuged so we can get just the part we want—in this case, the plasma. By 9 p.m. that night I had the first convalescent plasma product within 1,000 miles.”

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“The Blood Donor Center now has a whole setup to collect plasma from about 10 people a week, and we are sharing what we get with other hospitals. We’ve gotten a lot of positive signs about the effects, but ultimately, we still need a randomized control trial to know just how useful it is. Those are getting started across the country now.”

COMPLETE FINAL STEPS

“Even though we had the plasma in hand, it still had to go through infectious disease testing, which is required by the FDA. That meant sending a tiny portion down to a lab in Texas, the closest location that does those appraisals. We got it on a plane, and they expedited the test. The patient got the plasma around 2 a.m. on April 1.” [Editor’s note: The patient ended up recovering after 34 days on a ventilator.]

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WHAT IS CONVALESCENT PLASMA? Plasma is the liquid part of your blood; it makes up about 55 percent of the red fluid coursing through your veins and is typically around 90 percent water. The other 45 percent of your blood includes red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. After your body fights off a dangerous pathogen—COVID-19, for example—the antibodies your body produced to defeat it stick around in your plasma. Blood donation centers across the country have been extracting plasma from people who have recovered (or convalesced) in order to transfuse the fluid into someone still fighting the disease. The hope is the antibodies created by the first person can aid the second person’s immune system in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

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How one doctor took on a new role: searching for people willing to donate convalescent plasma.

Dr. Keri Propst works as an anesthesiologist, but during the early stages of the pandemic, she also got to hone her detective skills. She became part of the Colorado COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project Consortium: a group of Centennial State health care groups, including Kaiser Permanente and SCL Health, and blood banks, like Vitalant, that have teamed up to both study the blood product and help get it to the sickest patients. Throughout April and May, Propst still spent some days sedating people before surgery at Saint Joseph Hospital, but she also tried to find people—mostly by sifting through files and calling folks—who’d recovered and were willing to donate the fluid. “I have been astounded by all these institutions working together,” Propst says, “as well as by how many people are donating. It makes me feel like we’re really all in this together.”

Measuring Resistance

Many of the initial COVID-19 antibody tests were inaccurate—but at least one Colorado institution spent extra time getting it right.

Just days after Governor Jared Polis issued a statewide stay-at-home order, health department officials in Telluride and Aspen were already convinced they’d found the key to reopening. Because of the pandemic, the FDA had allowed commercial COVID-19 antibody tests to be rushed to market. Community members in both ski towns had purchased hundreds of the assessments, which they believed would tell them who had been exposed to the disease.

By late May, however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the current antibody tests were inaccurate up to half the time. “A lot of tests are detecting antibodies for other coronaviruses,” says Dr. Richard Zane, UCHealth’s chief innovation officer, “instead of ones for COVID-19.” That meant the assessments procured by Telluride and Aspen, as well as ones that many health clinics and hospitals had started using, were just causing confusion. As it turned out, researchers at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora had been working on a way to provide clarity.

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Most antibody tests take a sample of a person’s blood and run it over a surface holding proteins found in COVID-19. If the patient has antibodies, they’ll bind with the proteins, creating a chemical reaction that indicates a positive result. In early April, Dr. Brian Harry, the medical director of clinical chemistry at University of Colorado Hospital, and his team decided they would grow the proteins used in such tests themselves so they could better ensure accuracy and have enough materials.

To begin, Thomas Morrison, an associate professor of immunology and microbiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, identified the proteins present in the spikes jutting out of the virus and began growing versions of each at University of Colorado Hospital’s Cancer Center. Harry’s team then examined how they reacted to thousands of blood samples—including ones that didn’t contain COVID-19 and ones with antibodies for other coronaviruses. By mid-May, they’d created something they are confident is 99.6 percent accurate.

UCHealth has made those tests available to the general public, but Harry says we still have a lot to learn about COVID-19 antibodies: “People shouldn’t overinterpret results.

We still aren’t sure if the antibodies provide immunity. The virus may mutate. If that happens, it doesn’t matter what the antibodies did to the old virus.”

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INVESTIGATIVE WORK

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Getting Back On Track

Hospitals along the Front Range survived the initial crush of COVID-19. Here, one health care leader reflects on the lasting effects that effort will have.

Dr. Steven Brown felt like things were finally beginning to calm down in early May. The chief medical officer at Lutheran Medical Center was seeing fewer COVID-19 patients coming through the hospital’s doors. People were being taken off ventilators, having successfully fought off the disease. Even elective surgeries were returning in a limited capacity. That didn’t mean Brown could relax, though. He now had a new challenge: helping Lutheran return to something approaching normal operations with the threat of the novel coronavirus still imminent. The 68-year-old chatted with 5280 about that task, lessons learned from the disease’s initial outbreak, and the problems hospitals still face in the immediate future.

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don’t know about the disease. We’ve come to realize, though, that if you use PPE properly, it will protect you. We’ve had people going in and out of rooms with COVID-19 patients all the time, and very few nurses and doctors have gotten sick.

When you are forced to use equipment and you realize it works, I think your level of anxiety drops down many levels. That knowledge will be especially important if we have a second wave. It’s also something that I hope can trickle into society at large.

Masks work.

What does the financial situation look like for Lutheran?

When you’re not doing any elective surgeries, you’re losing a lot of your income.

We certainly have had a financial shortfall. I think every hospital in America is experiencing the same thing. SCL Health received about $81 million in CARES Act funds since late April, but it still doesn’t cover what we lost. [Editor’s note: SCL Health operates eight hospitals, including Lutheran, and more than 100 clinics throughout Colorado, Montana, and Kansas.] We might be able to get back to even in the first half of next year. That being said, I am proud of the way our health care system responded to this situation. We knew we would be facing a bad fiscal challenge, but dealing with this disease remained the priority.

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What are you most worried about as Lutheran tries to regain a sense of normalcy?

I think one of the biggest concerns is getting people to understand that if they think they’re having a serious health issue, fear of COVID-19 shouldn’t keep them away from the hospital.

Nationally, the number of people coming to emergency rooms with heart attacks and strokes is way down. I think a lot of people are trying to tough it out at home. If you’re sick, if you’re having serious chest pain, or if you’re having symptoms of a stroke, you need to come to the emergency room. We know how to keep you safe.

VIRTUAL REALITY During the pandemic’s first months, doctors and patients alike found out just how easy telemedicine was to use.

At one point during Colorado’s stay-at-home orders, Kaiser Permanente, a medical group with 29 offices throughout the state, saw its number of video telehealth visits go from around a dozen a day to several hundred. The spike began the same week primary care and specialty doctors shut down offices to limit the spread of the virus, which forced Kaiser to expand its already existing suite of telehealth options. It turns out that just about everyone is a fan: 93 percent of patients indicated they were satisfied with the attention they received during such visits, and Dr. Ari Melmed, medical director for Kaiser’s telehealth services, said many doctors were enjoying the work-from-home experience more than they anticipated. “Every field is figuring out that more can happen using technology than people thought,” Melmed says. “Health care is no exception. We will see more people going to the doctor this way going forward.” m

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TOP DOCTORS 2020 ADDICTION MEDICINE Susan Calcaterra UNIVERSITY

1635 Aurora Court, Sixth Floor Aurora 80045 720-848-2300

Alexis Carrington-Ford UNIVERSITY

1693 N. Quentin St. Aurora 80045 877-999-0538

Denver’s Top Doctors 2020 For more than 25 years, 5280 has asked physicians in the Denver area whom they would trust to treat themselves or a loved one. The following 339 doctors—in 98 specialties—were nominated by their peers this year.

Kaylin Klie DENVER HEALTH

667 Bannock St., Pavilion K Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Dale Terasaki DENVER HEALTH

723 Delaware St., Pavilion M Denver 80204 303-436-6000

ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY Joseph P. Cannavo

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, LUTHERAN

10350 E. Dakota Ave. Denver 80247 303-338-4545

Christian Thurstone DENVER HEALTH

667 Bannock St., Pavilion K Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Amber Khanna UNIVERSITY, CHILDREN’S

12505 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-5300

ADVANCED HEART FAILURE & TRANSPLANT CARDIOLOGY Larry Allen UNIVERSITY

12505 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-5300

Natasha Altman UNIVERSITY

12505 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-5300

Amrut Ambardekar UNIVERSITY

12505 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-5300

ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY Jatinder S. Aulakh

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Mark Ebadi ROSE

ADOLESCENT MEDICINE

125 Rampart Way, Suite 100 Denver 80230 720-858-7600

CHILDREN’S

Suzanne Fishman

David W. Kaplan 860 Potomac Circle Aurora 80011 720-777-6131

Nicholas C. Kyriazi

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

8383 W. Alameda Ave. Lakewood 80226 303-338-4545

CHILDREN’S, SKY RIDGE

206 W. County Line Road, Suite 110 Highlands Ranch 80129 303-791-9999

Amy E. Sass CHILDREN’S

860 Potomac Circle Aurora 80011 720-777-6131

ANESTHESIOLOGY David Abts

DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Michael L. Burm ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

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Joseph D. Kay

CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6820

Erich Marks ST. JOSEPH

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545 Getty Images

NOTE: Each listing includes the physician’s name, the hospitals at which the physician has privileges, the doctor’s office, clinic, or hospital address, and the best phone number to call for an appointment. Full listings, including information about how many years each physician has been on the Top Doctors list, are available at directory.5280.com/doctors.

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

TOP DOCTORS 2020 Jessica Meyers Husum ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE, PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S

Jennifer Kelloff

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2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Keri Propst ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Michael Sawyer ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

BRAIN INJURY MEDICINE Arturo Montano DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Alan Weintraub CRAIG, SWEDISH

3425 S. Clarkson St. Englewood 80113 303-789-8220

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE William Baker

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Amy Barley UNIVERSITY

12505 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-5300

Andrew Prouse DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Because of space restrictions, we abbreviate the names of some area hospitals in the listings. Below are our abbreviations and the official names as well as their health care systems. If applicable, we provide the names of some surgical centers in the listings; however, they are not included below.

AURORA – The Medical Center of Aurora—HealthOne AVISTA – Avista Adventist Hospital—Centura Health BROOMFIELD – UCHealth Broomfield Hospital—UCHealth CASTLE ROCK – Castle Rock Adventist Hospital—Centura Health CHILDREN’S – Children’s Hospital Colorado CRAIG – Craig Hospital DENVER HEALTH – Denver Health Medical Center GOOD SAMARITAN – Good Samaritan Medical Center—SCL Health HIGHLANDS RANCH – UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital—UCHealth LITTLETON – Littleton Adventist Hospital—Centura Health LUTHERAN – Lutheran Medical Center—SCL Health NATIONAL JEWISH – National Jewish Health ORTHOCOLORADO – OrthoColorado Hospital—Centura Health PARKER – Parker Adventist Hospital—Centura Health PLATTE VALLEY – Platte Valley Medical Center—SCL Health PORTER – Porter Adventist Hospital—Centura Health PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S – Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center— HealthOne

RMHC – Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center—HealthOne

ROSE – Rose Medical Center—HealthOne SKY RIDGE – Sky Ridge Medical Center—HealthOne ST. ANTHONY – St. Anthony Hospital—Centura Health ST. JOSEPH – Saint Joseph Hospital—SCL Health SWEDISH – Swedish Medical Center—HealthOne UNIVERSITY – UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital— UCHealth

System—Veterans Health Administration

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY Beau Carubia CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6200

Donna M. DeSimone 14364 E. Evans Ave. Aurora 80014 303-431-8775

CLINICAL CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Laurent Lewkowiez ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Francis Ngo ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Wendy Tzou UNIVERSITY

12505 E. 16th Ave., Third Floor Aurora 80045 720-848-6510

Jason West UNIVERSITY, DENVER HEALTH

12605 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-0000

CLINICAL GENETICS & GENOMICS Austin Larson CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 303-724-2370

Matthew Taylor UNIVERSITY

12605 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-0782

COLON & RECTAL SURGERY Eric M. Campion DENVER HEALTH

VETERANS – Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care

David J. Zoloto 280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

11215 Huron St. Westminster 80234 303-338-4545

700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

David C. Longcope ROSE, SKY RIDGE

Deirdre Foster

Kristie M. Ladegard

GOOD SAMARITAN, ST. JOSEPH

DENVER HEALTH

10350 E. Dakota Ave. Denver 80247 303-338-4545

301 W. Sixth Ave., Pavilion G Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Jennifer Hagman CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6200

CHILD ABUSE PEDIATRICS Antonia Chiesa

4600 Hale Parkway, Suite 430 Denver 80220 303-377-6401

Santosh S. Nandi SWEDISH, PORTER

401 W. Hampden Place, Suite 210 Englewood 80110 303-722-6960

CHILDREN’S, DENVER HEALTH

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6919

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James Jaggers

PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S, ST. JOSEPH,

CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

GOOD SAMARITAN

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6660

1601 E. 19th Ave., Suite 6300 Denver 80218 303-839-5669

Jon Vogel

Steven Leonard RMHC

UNIVERSITY

1635 Aurora Court, Sixth Floor Aurora 80045 720-848-2700

COMPLEX GENERAL SURGICAL ONCOLOGY Leonardo Alfaro

2055 High St., Suite 260 Denver 80205 720-475-8730

Max Mitchell CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6660

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Ron Hugate

PLATTE VALLEY

PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S

660 Golden Ridge Road, Suite 250 Golden 80401 303-837-0072

Mana Amir

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN,

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Richard Schulick UNIVERSITY, CHILDREN’S, HIGHLANDS RANCH

1665 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-0300

COMPLEX PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY John Bangiyev RMHC

2055 High St., Suite 110 Denver 80205 303-301-9019

Kenny H. Chan CHILDREN’S, PARKER

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-8501

Jeremy D. Prager CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-8501

Sandra L. Friedman CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6630

Robyn Nolan

7701 Sheridan Blvd.

Westminster 80003 303-338-4545

Ann Reynolds CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6630

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY Ryan Huffman

1375 E. 20th Ave. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

Todd Bull

Jennifer Kemp

UNIVERSITY

Philip Neff

DEVELOPMENTAL-BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS

ROSE, CASTLE ROCK

12605 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-5300

1746 Cole Blvd., Suite 150 Lakewood 80401 303-914-8800

Catherine A. Lazar

Lloyd Kershen

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

ST. ANTHONY

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

1819 Denver West Drive, Suite 101 Golden 80401 303-223-4448

Anna Neumeier

David Lynch

DENVER HEALTH

700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

DERMATOLOGY

Nicole M. Annest ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Elisa Kapler ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

NATIONAL JEWISH, UNIVERSITY

1400 Jackson St. Denver 80206 303-552-2390

Scott Tomsick DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

EMERGENCY MEDICINE Anna Engeln DENVER HEALTH

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

777 Bannock St., Pavilion A Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Meg Lemon

Alisha Garth

PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S

ST. JOSEPH

1960 N. Ogden St., Suite 555 Denver 80218 303-831-0400

1375 E. 19th Ave. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

David N. Campbell

Brian Rothschild

Ari Melmed

CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN,

CONGENITAL CARDIAC SURGERY 13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6660

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5555 E. Arapahoe Road Centennial 80122 303-338-4545

ST. JOSEPH

1375 E. 19th Ave. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

Jonyean Pei ST. JOSEPH

1375 E. 19th Ave. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM Michael McDermott UNIVERSITY

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-2650

John Orrego

1375 E. 20th Ave. Denver 80205 303-831-0644

Rocio Pereira DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Irinel Stanciu

660 Golden Ridge Road, Suite 250 Golden 80401 303-233-1223

EPILEPSY

Christine Baca UNIVERSITY

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-2080

Richard Clemmons SKY RIDGE

10099 Ridgegate Parkway, Suite 480 Lone Tree 80124 303-781-4485

Mark Spitz UNIVERSITY

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-2080

FAMILY MEDICINE Sarah Boyer

9285 Hepburn St. Highlands Ranch 80129 303-338-4545

Kathleen Chase

16290 E. Quincy Ave. Aurora 80015 303-338-4545

Stephanie Christie

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Who Decides?

Frequently asked questions about the Top Doctors selection process.

Why didn’t you choose my doctor?

We don’t pick the docs—Denver physicians do. For the past 26 years, 5280 has surveyed doctors and asked them, specialty by specialty, which metro-area physicians they would trust to treat themselves and their families. Our theory is that medical professionals are best qualified to judge other medical professionals. The ballot is posted on 5280.com from the end of January to mid-March each year. Every metro-area doctor with a valid Colorado medical license can fill it out. Once the doctor hits “save,” the votes are entered into our database and tallied.

So doesn’t that make it one big popularity contest?

In some respects, yes. We hope that doctors give us careful, responsible answers, but there’s little we can do to stop them from recommending their skiing buddies. Using the list is a lot like going to your doctor and asking for a referral. The difference is that we’re asking a lot more doctors than you’d ever have the chance to. Also, by working to raise our return rate (it was 13 percent this year), we hope to correct for politics. The more doctors who participate, the less chance that any one person’s aspirations will win out.

I thought my doc was a good physician, but she’s not on the list.

What does that mean?

Nothing. She probably is a good doctor. The selection of doctors by peer review can leave many excellent doctors off the list. Because longtime, well-known doctors have the advantage of name recognition, the list may favor that kind of doctor. However, that in no way means your doctor isn’t qualified and completely competent.

I’m a doctor, and I couldn’t access the online ballot. Why?

We get the database of all licensed physicians in the state from the

Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies and select the doctors located in the seven metro-area counties (Denver, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Boulder, Adams, Douglas, and Jefferson), which results in a list of more than 11,200 docs.

If you attempted to log on to the system and received a pop-up response that said, “Login failed, please check your name and license number,” that means there is a disconnect between your information and the information we have in the system. If you’ve recently moved to Colorado and haven’t updated your publicly available address with the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, for example, your license will not register as local and therefore will be invalid in our system. If you have registered your license at an address outside the seven metro-area counties, you will not be in our database. If you have a hard-to-spell last name or if you’ve recently changed your name, it’s possible the information we have from the state is incorrect and you will have trouble logging in.

In the future, if you have difficulty logging in to our system, please use the “comment” tool on the ballot site and let us know.

We’re happy to work through the problem so you can vote.

I’ve heard the list is rigged—that only doctors who advertise with 5280 make it. Is that true?

Nope. The Top Doctors list is completely unaffected by which doctors advertise in the magazine and/or on our website. Doctors sometimes choose to advertise after they’ve been chosen for the list, but how much or if and when doctors choose to advertise are not taken into consideration. Period.

How does 5280 choose the medical specialties on the list?

Through the years we’ve worked to improve Top Doctors by updating the categories, increasing the number of eligible voters, and considering suggestions from health care professionals.

For the better part of two decades, our categories have included only specialties approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties (although we do not include every ABMS specialty).

This system for choosing categories eases confusion among doctors filling out the survey and reduces the amount of lobbying we get from doctors and hospitals that would like us to include more obscure specialties.

So why aren’t categories such as chiropractic and podiatry ever included in the list?

Although these areas of medicine are completely relevant, respectable, and necessary, our list is a physician-only (M.D.s and D.O.s) directory.

Does 5280 check out all the doctors on the list?

The magazine’s research department independently verifies every doctor’s name, phone number, office address, and hospital affiliations. We also take the additional step of sending our list to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies for approval— meaning doctors on our list do not currently have disciplinary actions against their licenses and have not experienced a malpractice suit and/or settlement in at least five years.

The magazine sometimes chooses doctors to be profiled or to serve as sources for the accompanying story. How are they chosen?

5280 sometimes likes to introduce you to some of our Top Docs through profiles or by using them to explain different aspects of medicine. We believe this is a great way to show our readers that these physicians are not just names on a list. In choosing doctors to include, we do our best to vary the medical specialties represented and introduce you to doctors we have never included before. Of course, sometimes our stories involve doctors who are not on the list as well.

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One hundred years ago this month, women across America gained the right to vote—something Colorado women had already been doing for 27 years. But ensuring access to the ballot box wasn’t easy then, nor, in some ways, is it now.

Here’s what it took to get us there more than a century ago, what challenges Colorado—and America—still faces, and how we honor the suffrage movement’s legacy today.

BY NATASHA GARDNER, PATRICIA KAOWTHUMRONG & JESSICA LARUSSO

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MOLLY BROWN HOUSE MUSEUM

Bragging Rights

Colorado and Wyoming were early adopters when it came to extending suffrage to female citizens.

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ong before most of the nation, Western states and territories gave women the right to vote. But as for who was first— that gets a little more complicated.

Technically, New Jersey was the first to allow women to vote, in the 1790s, but that right was revoked in 1807. The territories of Wyoming and Utah extended the right to female citizens in December 1869 and February 1870, respectively (although both laws included rights for all women, there were significant barriers to voting for women of color). Women actually went to the polls first in Utah, thanks to the timing of elections (they also had the right revoked by an act of Congress in 1887). Meanwhile, Wyoming signed the suffrage clause into its constitution in 1890, earning its Equality State nickname.

The Centennial State has its own claim to leading the way. In 1893, Coloradans granted women suffrage through the popular vote. Not long after that, Colorado women began running for office—and winning.

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Three Republican women served in the state Legislature in 1895. And, proving that representation matters, one of those women, Carrie Clyde Holly, sponsored several bills targeting women’s rights. To wit: She passed one that established the age of consent as 18. “Basically, it’s a statutory rape bill,” says Judy Gaughan, an associate professor of history at Colorado State University–Pueblo.

“The ‘Holly law’ was written about in papers across the country.” While women didn’t—and still don’t— necessarily vote as a block, their participation in politics brought additional attention to family medicine, charitable giving, and education.

Coloradans continued to advocate for women’s suffrage on a national level, and the state’s influence was apparent in the region. Women in every Western state except New Mexico were voting even before the 19th Amendment was ratified, says Rebecca Hunt, a retired associate professor of history at the University of Colorado Denver. So, while blue ribbons may be nice, more important is that those early victories helped move the country toward increased voting access for all Americans.

In 1914, Titanic survivor and Denver activist Margaret Brown worked with suffragist Alva Belmont to organize the Conference of Great Women in Newport, Rhode Island. Tour her Capitol Hill mansion to hear about her “unsinkable” life. 1340 Pennsylvania St., Denver; mollybrown.org

CENTER FOR COLORADO WOMEN’S HISTORY You’ve only got five more months to see Bold Women. Change History, an exhibit commemorating the 19th Amendment’s centennial. Learn about key players—like Colorado’s Elizabeth Piper Ensley, an African American activist, writer, and educator—and examine artifacts such as

an 1893 ballot box from Pitkin County and a letter from Susan B. Anthony congratulating local suffragists. 1310 Bannock St., Denver; historycolorado.org

GARDEN OF THE GODS In September 1923, the National Woman’s Party hosted an Equal Rights Pageant at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. There’s a photo of the event at the

CreditsPrevious Tk spread: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (sash); Courtesy of Flickr Commons/The London School of Economics and Political Science (button); H.L. Standley, Colo., Pageant celebrating the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sept. 23, 1923, Records of the National Woman’s Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Garden of the Gods); Denver Public Library, Western History Photographic collections (newspaper clipping); Getty Images (lily)

Get in the car for a historical road trip planned around suffragist hangouts and exhibits in both Colorado and Wyoming.

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How The West Was Won

This spread, clockwise from top left: Henry Mayer, “The Awakening” February 20, 1915, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Part of the Vast Billboard Campaign of the Woman’s Party. Putting up in Denver. 1916, Records of the National Woman’s Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Sarah Boyum; Denver Public Library, Western History Photographic collections (2); Getty Images Creditsbillboard Tk

Colorado suffragists devised a broad and brilliant strategy to earn their spots at the ballot box.

Center for Colorado Women’s History exhibit, but you can also recreate the moment with a selfie in front of the park’s otherworldly red rock formations.

1805 N. 30th St., Colorado Springs; gardenofgods.com

SOUTH PASS CITY STATE HISTORIC SITE This mining boomtown in south-central Wyoming was the home of William Bright, a member of the territorial Legislature who introduced the bill guaranteeing women the right to vote and hold office in 1869. (It passed with the hope of attracting more settlers—particularly women—to the territory so it could qualify for statehood.) Among the ghost town’s 20 original buildings you’ll find the home of Esther Hobart Morris, America’s first female justice of the peace. 125 South Pass Main St., South Pass City, Wyoming; southpasscity.com

WYOMING HOUSE FOR HISTORIC WOMEN Visit the bronze statue of Louisa Gardner Swain, who, at age 70 in Laramie on September 6, 1870, became the first woman to cast a Wyoming ballot.

The homemaker is often celebrated as the United States’ first female voter, though a 23-year-old schoolteacher named Seraph Young had voted in a local election in Salt Lake City seven months before. 317 S. Second St., Laramie, Wyoming; thelouisaswainfoundation.com

WYOMING STATE CAPITOL The restored Supreme Court chambers of the Wyoming State Capitol were the setting for debates on women’s suffrage and where Wyoming’s women’s suffrage law was finalized. 200 W. 24th St., Cheyenne, Wyoming; wyoming capitolsquare.com

“We often talk about women being ‘granted’ the right to vote—but they demanded it,” says Leah Davis Witherow, curator of history at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum.

“The campaign in Colorado shows a coordinated, grassroots effort that placed tremendous priority on strategy.” In addition to their gumption, Centennial State women had a few things going for them. They’d been successfully voting in school district elections since 1876, which nullified the sentiment that women would cause chaos at the polls. Thanks to the boom-and-bust nature of mining town life, women’s economic work— washing clothes, taking in boarders, serving as midwives—also had political value. “The brilliance of the 1893 campaign was that they employed a strategy they knew would work in our state,” Davis Witherow says. She breaks down their primary tactics into the following four P’s.

PULPIT & PRESS

Across the state, Colorado women proactively asked newspaper

publishers and religious leaders to back women’s suffrage (or, at least, to not come out against it), an aggressive effort that led them to gain support from both, including 75 percent of Colorado’s newspapers. And they wrote: Women, including the Rocky Mountain News’ Minnie J. Reynolds and Ellis Meredith, secured gigs in mostly male newsrooms.

PROHIBITION

Leveraging their status as heads of the home sphere, in charge of caring for children, local suffragists made allies of prohibitionists who hoped female voters would help them take the state dry (which they did, in 1916).

POPULISM

In the 1890s, the country was experiencing what was then the most widespread economic recession in its history, and with that came a wave of populism. “Women appealed to this momentum,” Davis Witherow says, “that sought to remove power from the elite and place it back in the hands of average citizens.”

WHY I VOTE

Not only is voting my civic obligation—voting is also a family obligation. By voting, I honor my maternal grandfather, who bravely fought in General Douglas MacArthur’s Philippine Army and was decorated with a Purple Heart President, Asian in both World War II and the Korean War. By Chamber of voting, I honor my paternal grandfather, who Commerce was one of the Sakada, the Filipino laborers who were recruited by the United States in the early 1900s to work the sugar cane fields in Hawaii and the canneries in California. By voting, I honor my mother, who, throughout her life, refused to allow anyone to bully her family because of our Filipino heritage. In their own ways, they all fought for the right and privilege to vote. Their pride in being American was evident at every election.

They never missed the opportunity to vote—an opportunity that they didn’t always have in their native country.

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Securing franchise—the right to vote— didn’t end in 1920.

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ou know how it starts: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for a common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

And, as you also know, that document failed to secure the blessings of liberty for all Americans equally.

The continued struggle to perfect the Constitution—with amendments and social change—is thus the story of this country’s evolution. While the 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments expanded the franchise to include naturalized citizens, Black men, and women, respectively, state and local laws undermined those victories by limiting access to the voting booth in various ways, including poll taxes

and literacy tests. A horrific history of lynchings, intimidation, and other forms of violence ensured that African Americans did not have equal access to the ballot box. Other groups—Native Americans, people with disabilities, immigrants—also faced discrimination. “The story [of suffrage] doesn’t end with the 19th Amendment,” says Jillian Allison, the director of History Colorado’s Center for Colorado Women’s History. “[Sex] was just one barrier.”

Many Colorado politicians and advocates have kept working to improve voter access. In the past decade, the state has taken a proactive approach to increase turnout in several ways, from allowing same-day registration to switching to a mail-in ballot system. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the changes seem clairvoyant, giving Coloradans a tested system designed for convenience and safety.

The Centennial State is making other adjustments, too. Last year the state passed a law—supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—to allow parolees to vote. 

I told myself this past July when I turned 18 that I was going to educate myself on politics and the news so this year, when I could vote for Sophomore forward the president, I would be ready. You at Stanford University hear it talked about a lot that the and the first woman to younger population didn’t come dunk in a Colorado high out because they felt like their voice school basketball game didn’t matter. I understand that your one vote might not sway much, but if 1,000 people come together or 10,000 people come together, that might matter. Just having the opportunity to vote—one I didn’t have for 18 years and one women didn’t have for a great number of years—makes me feel like it should be exercised. Now that I have the chance, I’m really excited to make good on it.

1837 The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in New York City meets on May 9 and discusses universal suffrage.

1848 The Seneca Falls Convention— known as the first major women’s rights meeting—is held in New York state.

1868 The 14th Amendment gives all males born or naturalized in the United States equal rights (although many groups still did not have access to voting).

1870 Black men’s right to vote is guaranteed with the ratification of the 15th Amendment.

1893 Coloradans give women access to voting booths.

WHY I VOTE

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The 19th Amendment is ratified on August 18 (only 36 states are required to ratify an amendment; Tennessee was the 36th).

CreditsFrom Tk top: Denver Public Library, Western History Photographic collections; Colorado’s ratification of suffrage amendment, Dec. 12, 1919, Records of the National Woman’s Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Sarah Boyum

No End In Sight

STEP BY STEP

Making sure that Americans have equal access to the polls has been a long process, and it’s still evolving.

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1924  The Indian Citizenship Act grants Native Americans citizenship.

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CreditsFrom Tk top: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo; Getty Images; Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum/Courtesy of Wikipedia; Courtesy of Paul Valdez

The Magnuson Act allows Chinese immigrants to become citizens and vote.

1965  The Voting Rights Acts of 1965 helps remove racist Jim Crow laws that prevented people of color from voting or registering to vote.

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“On some level, I thought it would be a lot harder than it was [to achieve],” says Denise Maes, ACLU of Colorado’s public policy director. Instead, it passed easily, and Colorado joined 17 other states with similar laws. “In Colorado, we have done so much; we really are a beacon for the nation,” Maes says of voting access and rights in general. “I’m not going to say it is 100 percent, but boy, we’ve done a lot, and you can tell by the percentage of people who do vote.” (In 2016, Colorado’s turnout was fourth in the country, with 72.1 percent of eligible voters participating.)

This year is also the first time that 17-year-olds who will be 18

by November 3 partook in Colorado’s primary elections. Another 2019 change was increasing access for voters with disabilities: For the 2020 election season, county clerks across the state will implement ballot adjustments for voters with visual impairments, more accessible voting booths for in-person voting, and additional electrical connections so that people with adaptive equipment can plug in and cast their ballots. It’s all part of improving an evolving system, says Peg Perl, Arapahoe County’s director of elections. “We can have a lot of rights on paper that are still hard for people to access in life.”

The voting age drops to 18 (from 21) with the 26th Amendment.

2013 Colorado shifts to mail-in ballots.

2019 Colorado legislators pass a bill allowing parolees to vote.

2020 Seventeen-year-olds can vote in Colorado primaries if they will turn 18 before the general election.

WHY I VOTE

I’m not naive enough to think that the people you elect are the be-all and endall to our problems, but it does really matter to have representation. You can see it in Colorado now. We have repStatewide engagement resentation of women and people of manager for Cobalt, a color. When you have people who are nonprofit dedicated to prodirect lines from these communities and tecting reproductive rights are policymakers, we see change happen. I’ve seen it with my own eyes, and I’ve been part of that process with the work we’ve done with reproductive rights. But we know we’re one bad election away from losing the progress we’ve made in these policy fights. And voting is a big, important step, but keeping politicians accountable is vital. Your participation doesn’t end at the ballot box.

JUSTINE SANDOVAL

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Duty Calls I vote because I can and because I must.

Truth, and Denver’s Margaret “Molly” Brown) like other kids spit out the names of sports heroes. I was told to cast a vote even when—especially when—I knew that others disagreed, because every vote matters.

As an adult, Election Day holds as much excitement for me as birthdays and the Fourth of July. I’ve lived in Colorado long enough to remember standing in an hourslong line at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building to exercise my franchise and place an “I Voted” sticker on my shirt. I saw the state’s voters become the first in the country to legalize recreational marijuana; strike down a measure to remove racist language from the state’s constitution in 2016, but pass it two years later; and, in 2018, elect a state LegislaTo register to vote ture that is one of the most or check your regdiverse in the country. istration status, visit govotecolorado.gov.

Each general election, I study the issues. I still watch debates (with Ritz crackers in hand). And I vote—now from the comfort of my living room, thanks to Colorado’s mail-in system.

When I finally do put pen to ballot, I do so gratefully, thinking about why it’s an important act and of all the people who fought to give me that right. – N G

WHY I VOTE

I believe voting is the greatest platform to express your words without saying much. As an immigrant líder, I believe that this country is built by people like me from all over, and we all bring something Chef-owner, Work & Class to this land, including great creations and Super Mega Bien and ideas to change different industries and our economy. Sometimes we don’t vote because we don’t agree with some political bullshit, but one thing I learned over the years is that not everything will always work for everyone, but you will find the way to make it work for you—if you vote.

Another thing I have learned is if you don’t agree on something, you can vote no or against it and it will still be counted. If you vote, that means you are demanding your rights as a human, expressing yourself, and helping make things work for your benefit.

DANA RODRIGUEZ

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Suffragists didn’t invent political organization tactics, but they took what others had used before, adjusted them for their needs, and found success. And campaigns and advocates are still using that same adoptbuild-change strategy today.

SUFFRAGISTS… used letter campaigns in a flu-pandemic world to reach more people.

NOW… campaigns inundate potential voters with text messages.

SUFFRAGISTS… picketed the White House and went on hunger strikes (some were force-fed milk and food with hoses) while in prison.

NOW… Americans marched across the country—and in front of the White House— this summer to protest the killing of George Floyd, police violence, and systemic racism.

In Colorado, the state Legislature rapidly passed sweeping law enforcement reforms.

SUFFRAGISTS… met in small social clubs first and then banded disparate groups together under umbrella organizations like the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association that led coordinated efforts to change sentiments about women’s suffrage laws locally and nationally.

NOW… Colorado mom Shannon Watts formed a Facebook group with friends to reduce gun violence after the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012. The group—which became Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and has more than five million supporters—funds candidates and leads national efforts on gun control legislation.

CreditsFrom Tk top: H.L. Standley, Alice Paul, leader of the feminist movement in America and vice president of the Woman’s Party with Mildred Bryan, youngest Colorado feminist in the Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs where the Party will present its Equal Rights Pageant on September 23rd, launching its western campaign, Sept. 1923, Records of the National Woman’s Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Matt Nager

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ne of my most vivid childhood memories is a political one. I was eight years old, watching Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush on the debate stage, both vying to become the 41st president. I ate Ritz crackers—the same way I still do today, by placing the salted side down on my tongue—while the candidates spoke about things I didn’t fully understand. It was common for political discussions like this to float around our house; tariffs and equal rights were discussed along with homework and meal plans. We weren’t a family of politicians, but we were a family of voters.

Exercising my franchise, I learned as a kid, was an essential action. I repeatedly heard the story—it’s more folklore than fact at this point—of my great-grandmother, who, after the 19th Amendment was ratified and she was eligible to vote, threatened to hitch up the wagon herself to cast her ballot after her husband said he’d go to town and vote for her. I could rattle off suffragist names (Matilda Joslyn Gage, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner

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SHOW ME THE WAY

As women started voting, they also began to run for office.

Today, more women are vying for public service spots than ever before. “Now women are actually the majority of voters,” says KC Becker, speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives. “You can advocate and advocate, but if politicians aren’t reflective of you and you can’t cast a vote, then you really have limited power.”

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CreditsFrom Tk top: Courtesy of Colorado Secretary of State’s Office; Denver Public Library, Western History Photographic collections

Percentage of women in Colorado’s state Legislature (the national average is 29.2 percent)

Female U.S. presidents, U.S. vice presidents, Colorado senators, Colorado governors, and Denver mayors

Secretary of State Jena Griswold wore white in honor of women’s suffrage at her 2019 swearing-in.

The Big Day Whether it’s 1920 or 2020, any election cycle is fraught with talk about security and voting rights—but this year is unlike any ballot season we’ve seen. Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who provides oversight for Colorado’s elections, says the state is uniquely prepared for November 3.

ON ACCESS TO VOTING: “Colorado was a leader in the nation in securing women the right to vote,” Griswold says. But, she adds, that fight to ensure voting access continues. “In 2020, you just have to look across the nation to see the fight and degradation of voting is in flux.” She points to voter registration rules in North Dakota (state-issued IDs) and Georgia (registration deadlines) as two examples of disenfranchisement today. (Colorado has same-day registration.) “I want to make sure that every eligible Coloradan, whether they live on tribal land or in the middle of Denver, has access to cast their ballot,” Griswold says.

ON THE PANDEMIC: “It was already a big election year, and then we added in this pandemic,” Griswold says. “We need to make sure that even during our times of crisis, our democracy isn’t eroded.” For the primary—and beyond—her office has issued emergency rules, put

together with Governor Jared Polis’ office and an epidemiologist, about socially distanced voting. She’s offering special funds to help clerks implement innovative ideas, from curbside ballot pickups to voting vans. And Griswold is establishing guidelines for safe in-person voting too, including decontamination of voting booths. She’s also asking counties to increase election workers’ hourly rate by $3 as a type of “hero pay.”

ON CLAIMS DISCREDITING MAIL-IN BALLOTS: “I strongly oppose the use

of the pandemic to suppress the right to vote,” Griswold says, pointing to Milwaukee, where only five voting locations were available in the recent primary (instead of 180) because of COVID-19 concerns.

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County jails have become the United States’ de facto mental health care providers. That reality, combined with what many allege is substandard care from private, for-profit health care companies, has contributed to Front Range inmate suicide rates higher than the average at jails across the nation. It’s a problem most Coloradans are unlikely to concern themselves with—until someone they love ends up behind bars.

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H HIS DAD WARNED ME. HE SAID IT’D BE DIFFICULT TO READ. I PRINTED THE EIGHT-PAGE DOCUMENT ANYWAY AND LEFT IT ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MY DESK FOR A FEW DAYS. BOLDFACE WORDS ON THE COVER SHEET WOULD CREEP INTO MY PERIPHERAL VISION, THOUGH, AND AFTER TAKING A FEW DEEP BREATHS, I PICKED UP THE PAPERWORK. NO ONE, I THOUGHT, SHOULD HAVE TO READ THE AUTOPSY REPORT OF A FRIEND. Using the emotionless prose of a pathologist who sees dead bodies every day, the coroner described Brian Heath Roundtree’s six-foot, 165-pound frame, brown hair, graying beard, and blue eyes. She noted that he looked roughly his age, which was 43.

They were prosaic details, things even an acquaintance would’ve observed. But I’d known Brian for a little more than 13 years as a co-worker and a friend, so when the coroner indicated a small scar on his lower back, recounted his pierced left ear, and chronicled several tattoos I knew the stories behind—the names and birthdates of his first two children on his right forearm, his wedding date on his stomach (“Til the wheels come off 5-14-05”), crude lettering of his nickname “Tree” on his left ankle—a smile tugged at my lips.

In life, Brian always had a story to tell. He was one of those people who seemed to have squeezed two lifetimes into the space typically reserved for one. After a beer or two, he would unfurl outlandish anecdotes from a troubled early adulthood—the time he spent on the streets, the drugs he did, the women he slept with, the serious legal trouble he got into—in a way that made you feel as though he had never left out a single detail, no matter how damning or disheartening. His candor was charming. His self-deprecation, irresistible. To know Brian was to know him fully. He had nothing to hide.

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Except that wasn’t really true. The remaining notations in the autopsy report reminded me that, like anyone else, Brian had kept some things mostly for himself. Three names I’d never heard him mention were inked into his skin. Several other words had been purposefully made illegible.

Scripted on the inside of his left wrist was “Be the water,” and scrawled on his shoulder was a quote from Henry David Thoreau.

Apparently, Brian still had tales to share, but it would be his body that would reveal the details of his life’s closing chapter, a story he wouldn’t be able to narrate himself. Even with his preternatural ability to turn a lesson learned the hard way into amusing happy hour chatter, Brian would’ve struggled to explain his final weeks, days, and hours. The fog of major depression—something else he had hidden from most of us—can engulf the mind and make even the most irrational decisions seem rational. That may have been why, in part, on January 19, 2018, Brian lay prostrate on a stainless steel table wearing an orange shirt and pants stamped with “Arapahoe County” and why the coroner concluded that there were fractures of the laryngeal cartilage consistent with suicide by hanging. It was the fourth time the Arapahoe County coroner had seen such a death in the county jail in as many years.

C O U N T Y J A I L I S where many people land when life takes an unexpected, dramatic, and potentially criminal wrong turn. Perennially underfunded, inundated by the ebb and flow of arrestees and detainees, run by elected sheriffs who can come and go every four years, and subject to zero statewide standards in Colorado, county jails vary wildly in quality.

Recently, critics and activists have directed their ire at the gross deficiencies of jailhouse health care. Inmates, they say, are not receiving necessary medications, being seen by appropriate providers, or having their health concerns taken seriously—all of which has led to negative outcomes and bad press, particularly for the large, for-profit health care companies that are increasingly contracting with county jails.

The free public rarely dispenses much compassion for the woes of the incarcerated community. But, according to everyone from county sheriffs to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), it should. “It’s really a ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ situation,” says Denise Maes, public policy director for the ACLU of Colorado. In other words, one extra cocktail, one bar fight, one unpaid fine, one lapse of character, or one moment of desperation might be all that stands between you and some unplanned time spent in the custody of the sheriff. On any given day in the United States, roughly 746,000 people are held in jail, where their lives are no longer their own and where their abilities to go to their medicine cabinets for their hypertension or antidepressant medications or call their doctors for a prescription antibiotic or ring their therapists for a mental reset can disappear for a couple of days or much, much longer.

The troubling reality is that approximately 74 percent of people who are handcuffed, read their rights, and held for varying lengths of time in jail are never convicted of a crime. In fact, the majority of people locked up in this country’s 3,134 local jails are pretrial detainees—in other words, they are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Many of them have mental health conditions that contribute to their inabilities to bond out, and many others simply cannot afford to post bail. “There are a lot of people in jail who are clearly a risk to society, and they should be here,” says Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader. “But most of us also know someone who’s had a bump in the road, made a mistake, and ended up in jail. We all have a vested interest in making sure jail is safe and provides the services it should for everyone.”

Safety—from a variety of would-be threats—is a tricky thing to guarantee in a correctional facility. Yet those who are incarcerated are theoretically protected from abuse and torture and promised reasonable medical care services under the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Based on rulings from the Supreme Court of the United States and other lower courts, these amendments assert, among other things, that confinement is

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Dennis Roundtree holds a photo of his son, Brian, who died by suicide while in the custody of the Arapahoe County Detention Facility in January 2018.

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the punishment for a crime; compounding imprisonment with barbaric corrective tactics or deprivation of appropriate health care violates inmates’ constitutional rights. “Essentially, the courts have said even if you’re a serial killer, we must provide humane treatment,” says Ed Budge, a Seattle-based civil rights attorney who has worked on more than a dozen wrongful death cases in correctional facilities across the country, including in Colorado. “This is not execution by denial of medical care.” That medical care is supposed to include proper psychiatric care.

It often does not, and that can have fatal consequences.

S T A N D I N G O N S T A G E , the house lights bathing him in their warm glow, Brian had never looked so alive. It was April 2011, and the 36-year-old was playing to the small crowd at Herman’s Hideaway, a divey music venue along South Broadway in Denver. As the frontman for Fujita Scale, a glorified four-piece garage band that had somehow persuaded the bar into letting it be an opening act, Brian had appropriated the fashion stylings of a young Axl Rose—bandana, stringy hair, sleeveless shirt, and ripped blue jeans. As a performer, he shined. As a vocalist, he really didn’t.

That wasn’t important. At least 25 of his friends, co-workers, and family

members, including his wife of six years, Nikki, and their five-year-old daughter, were happy to forgive his pitchiness. A lasting career as a lead singer wasn’t likely, but this musical interlude wasn’t about a pipe dream.

Life was pretty good for Brian. He had a steady job as the production manager at this magazine, his second marriage was solid, and his kids—four of his own and two stepchildren— were doing well. For everyone in the audience, this was simply a chance to applaud a guy whose life could’ve gone in a very different direction. For Brian, it was an opportunity to make up for lost time. Most people go through their garage band phases in their teens and early 20s. Instead, Brian had spent those typically carefree years as a resident of several county and state correctional facilities.

Brian always said he had a thief ’s mentality, ever since he was a child.

As a teenager, he once ran off with a car—a joyride at the expense of someone who’d left keys in their vehicle.

He even figured out while working at Keystone Resort that if he stole a ski instructor’s jacket, riding the chairlift would always be free.

His capers were mostly small-time, punk-kid stuff fueled by booze, weed, and teenage bravado—that is, until an ill-advised bet on the 1994 Super Bowl left him unable to pay rent on his condo in Keystone. At 19 years old and on a bad path, he’d clashed with his dad enough that he couldn’t stay at his house in Aurora. Brian ended up homeless on the snowy streets of Denver, where cold, hunger, and desperation helped birth the idea of robbing a pizzeria he’d once worked for.

On March 28, he borrowed a loaded .22 from an acquaintance, stole a red pickup truck, and surprised his former employer, who didn’t think Brian was serious until he unloaded a round into the floor. The pizzeria owner gave Brian the only cash he had: $3.

High on adrenaline, Brian then held up a gas station, where the register yielded $97. For $100, he bought himself what would end up being close to five years with the Colorado Department of Corrections.

By the time I met him, in November 2004, Brian had gotten out on good behavior at 24 years old, married a woman named Trish, had two children, gotten divorced, and spent time working for the Denver Post. As a colleague, he was easygoing, worked hard, and didn’t complain. He called everyone “brotha” or “lady,” terms of endearment that were far more endearing coming out of his mouth than they look on paper. Except for a diet that often consisted of AUGUST 2020

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situations can morph from complicated to litigious when it appears as though a preventable death was an acceptable casualty in an effort to maximize someone’s bottom line.

The most recent data available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics show that the single leading cause of death in local jails in 2016 was suicide, accounting for 31 percent of in-custody fatalities. Along with substance abuse deaths (10.4 percent), homicides (2.9 percent), and accidental deaths (1.7 percent), suicides are generally designated by advocacy groups as preventable, as are any deaths from illnesses that could be treated or cured with reasonable medical intervention.

It’s who’s responsible for the intervention—be it for medical or psychiatric reasons—that has caught the attention of news organizations in recent years. In lengthy investigative pieces, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and CNN have homed in on not only the questionable medical tactics of several of the country’s largest, for-profit correctional health care companies but also on their recent consolidations that, to some, look like a conspicuous yet unchecked monopolization of the correctional health care industry. The reports suggest that cost motivation—that is, for-profit firms’ focus on their net revenues—becomes a very real factor when it comes to their abilities to provide the care guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Hundreds upon hundreds of federal lawsuits and an untold number of state court cases claim that companies with names such as Wellpath, Armor Correctional Health Services, Corizon Health, NaphCare, and others have shirked their responsibilities to furnish reasonable care in favor of padding the bottom line. In so doing, the articles and lawsuits say, these businesses have displayed negligence, if not deliberate indifference, to inmates’ health care needs, a dereliction of duty that has too often resulted in permanent disability or death.

The grim narratives, some of which take place in Colorado and the details of which make it seem like landing in jail with so much as an infected hangnail could be dangerous, focus primarily on the withholding of physical

Courtesy of Adams County Sheriff’s Office

gas station fare and Mountain Dew, a wardrobe that relied too heavily on Nuggets and Broncos jerseys, and a colorful vocabulary tinged with profanity and prison vernacular, he was just like the rest of us. That is, he was just like the rest of us, save for what his dad calls the “grenades.”

Brian’s friends never had a name for it; we just knew that good decision-making was not always his strongest attribute. We joked about it—with him and sometimes without him. We chided him about having unprotected sex with an old girlfriend, which led to an unplanned pregnancy. We rolled our eyes when he proposed to Nikki only three weeks after meeting her in a bar. We shook our heads when he left a can of gasoline where his kids could mess with it, resulting in a small house fire. These things happen to people, of course, but they always happened to Brian.

He did manage to stay clean when it came to the law, never violating his parole, but his dad says that whenever life was going well for Brian, his son would inevitably make a bad decision that would “toss a grenade” into his life and blow things up. Such was the case, his dad says, when Brian quit his job at 5280 in 2013 to become a motivational speaker for teens and prisoners, a gig that floundered and left Brian barely cobbling together a living. “It was as if he never felt like he deserved it when things were good,” Dennis Roundtree says. “That was the pattern of his life. I’m convinced it was a symptom of his mental illness.”

In 2018, the Adams County Detention Facility opened its behavioral health unit, which officials say helps them better treat inmates with mental health conditions.

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health care. Forty-four-year-old Kenneth McGill, for example, was booked into the Jefferson County jail after violating probation on a DUI conviction in July 2012. Two months later, McGill begged for medical care when his face drooped, he felt weak on one side, and his speech slurred. He and other inmates repeatedly reported to several medical staffers with Correctional Healthcare Companies—now part of Wellpath—that McGill was experiencing classic symptoms of a stroke. According to the lawsuit, it took the company 16 hours to send him to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed him with a stroke. The injury was severe, however, and left McGill with permanent disabilities. The parties settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of Coloradan Jeffrey Lillis, a 37-year-old pretrial detainee being held on drug charges at the Arapahoe County Detention Facility, alleged that medical staff from Correct Care Solutions and Correctional Healthcare Companies—both now part of Wellpath— failed to treat his severe bacterial pneumonia and sepsis, conditions that likely could have been managed with antibiotics. Lillis was sick and in pain for days in December 2014; he died on the floor of his cell in a pool of his own blood and vomit. The lawsuit was settled for $2.45 million in 2019.

These stories of poor physical health care delivered by for-profit health care businesses, however, may obfuscate what is arguably a larger issue: The same companies’ substandard mental health care services have failed to stop suicide from being the number one killer of jail inmates. “It’s not abnormal to have suicidal thoughts after being caught for a serious crime,” says Jennifer Longtin, a Denver attorney who specializes in serving those with mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system. “Jails are aware this is a known risk, yet their protocols are often lacking.”

In Colorado, the inmate suicide numbers could be even worse than the national average. Statewide statistics reported by the Denver Post in January 2017 suggest Colorado’s inmate suicide rate—meaning the percentage of total deaths as a result of suicide—could be as high as 41 percent, 10 percentage points higher than national statistics. 5280’s open records request of the 10 most populous Front Range counties showed a jail suicide rate of 37 percent between 2010 and 2019.

But numbers are just numbers until you attach names to them. Names like Jesse Binam, Holly Peck, Mark Witkowski, Jillian White, Michael Roach, Benjamin Fueston, Dillon Blodgett, Jerome Bornn, Robert Petersen, Clinton Mitchell, Kenneth Conti, and Michael Stutsman remind us that the problem is personal. The list of Coloradans who have died by suicide in county jails goes on and on, and in far too many of these cases, risk factors for suicide were evident. In far too many of these cases—but not all—those risk factors were seemingly overlooked by mental health professionals employed by for-profit companies operating in county jails. In all of the cases, someone died alone.

F O R W E E K S , law enforcement officers in Arapahoe County had been quietly

working a string of amateurish yet mostly successful armed robberies. Wearing a fake beard and fabricated muscles, the suspect had been knocking over liquor stores, gas stations, check-cashing services, dry cleaners, restaurants, and even doughnut shops since sometime before Christmas 2017. No one had been physically injured, but the thief had brandished a firearm, traumatized dozens of people, and made off with more than $10,000 after 19 jobs.

It was the aftermath of the 20th hit, however, that found Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Deputy Benjamin Sears cataloging the contents of the suspect’s Jeep Liberty at the Farm Crest gas station on East Dry Creek Road in Littleton around 6:30 p.m. on January 17, 2018. As the officer peered through the SUV’s windows, he could see a costume beard and mustache tucked along the passenger side floorboard, a box of blue nitrile disposable gloves in the cargo area, a Broncos shirt in the back seat, and a bottle of Mountain Dew in the center console.

Officers from the Littleton Police Department had spotted Brian Roundtree’s Jeep just minutes after he’d stolen $310 from a Safe Ship store

less than two miles from the gas station. Low on fuel and itching to buy a few lottery tickets, Brian had pulled over. Twenty-three years after he entered the Arapahoe County Detention Facility in handcuffs for the first time, Brian would be returning in similar fashion.

In an interview room at Arapahoe County headquarters, Brian waived his Miranda rights before doing what he’d always done: He confessed, seemingly leaving out not a single detail, no matter how damning or disheartening. Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office Investigator Stevie True and Littleton Police Department’s Detective Christina Goodman asked him questions, but Brian unburdened himself without much prodding.

The responsibilities of life had stacked up over time, he said. He had just gotten a good job making $70,000 a year, but he also had a new, more expensive place to live; he’d gotten a DUI after trying to drink away marriage problems in the fall (after 12 years of being married to Nikki, the divorce had been finalized in early December); he had a gambling addiction; and he had four kids for whom he’d wanted to buy nice Christmas presents. Being able to deliver gifts on Christmas Eve was the impetus for the first robbery, on December 16.

The investigators asked Brian about the weapon he’d been using. For the majority of the crimes, he said, he’d been using an unloaded BB gun. In the week leading up to his arrest, however, he’d switched to a small, silver .38-caliber pistol he’d found in an unlocked SUV from which he was stealing plates. He said he couldn’t even figure out how to take the safety off the gun. “I want to make it clear right now,” he said, “that I had zero intentions to hurt anybody.”

He knew he’d inflicted wounds, though. He told the officers he thought about how all those people now knew what it was like to have a gun pointed at them. The “poor old lady” at the Circle K. The man at East Quincy Liquor who “was really mad.”

A guy at Cherry Knolls Liquor Store who appeared to know Brian’s weapon was nothing but a cheap Daisy BB gun. A pair of women and a little girl at OK Tailor and Shoe Repair. A girl “probably in high school” at Paradise Cleaners, who was so polite she actually called him “sir.” And “the foreign guy” Brian felt bad for because he was probably “here just trying to live the American dream and some asshole goes in with a BB gun and takes their shit.”

Partway through answering questions about each crime, the tears came. They’d stop and then start again, usually when he was apologizing for what he’d done—or when he’d mention his children, who he thought were going to hate him and whom he said he’d let down forever. “My kids are the biggest victims of this whole thing,” he said, “because I was really a good dad.”

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Dr. David Broadway is honored to have been chosen again by his colleagues as a 5280 Top Doctor! He is one of very few physicians who has earned five board certifications. Performing surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures for the face, breast, and body, Dr. Broadway also leads a team of highly skilled NeoGraft hair transplant technicians, nurse injectors, and skin care treatment providers at Broadway Plastic Surgery and Broadway Skin Essentials. He has assembled this highly accomplished team for a full service approach to achieving his patients’ wide variety of aesthetic goals.

A Wake Forrest medical school graduate, Dr. Broadway began his distinguished medical practice, which has led to performing surgeries, training other surgeons, and lecturing on surgical cosmetic procedures, worldwide. He currently operates in Colorado and has had a surgical practice in both Dubai and Riyadh. He was grateful for the opportunity to participate in several international medical mission trips, with Operation Smile.

Dr. Broadway’s philosophy is to help his patients by working with them to define their cosmetic goals relative to their own anatomy and desired results.

This is where the process begins, followed by the procedure or treatment plan which will best help patients meet their aesthetic goals. He believes that the decision to have cosmetic surgery is a very significant and personal one, and also believes that the process should be safe, efficient, and positive.

It is important to choose a highly experienced and credentialed surgeon, and Dr. Broadway, along with his team at Broadway Plastic Surgery and Broadway Skin Essentials, is dedicated to providing the best skill, treatments, and care for his patients. Happily welcoming existing and new patients, call to schedule your consultation today!

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M E G L E M O N , M D 19 5280 Top Doctor 2020 M I LTO N ‘J I M ’ S C H L E V E , M D A N N L E I B O L D, M D ELIZABETH ROBINSON, MD DA N I E L C A L L AG H A N , M D ALISON COLLIER, NP Congratulations to Dr. Meg Lemon on 19 years as a 5280 Top Doc! Joining Dr. Lemon, Dr. Jim Schleve, Dr. Ann Leibold and Alison Collier, NP, we are thrilled to introduce two outstanding physicians to our practice: Dr. Elizabeth Robinson and Dr. Daniel Callaghan. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Robinson is excited to be back to her native hometown with her husband and two children. Dr. Callaghan was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society for being at the top of his class at Georgetown, and has extensive training in Mohs micrographic surgery, cosmetic dermatology, and laser procedures from faculty with teaching appointments at Yale, Harvard, and Brown.

He is looking forward to enjoying all Colorado has to offer with his fiancé Maggie. Colorado Dermatology Specialists: Your Skin Is Our Business.

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Dr. Aristides K. Maniatis is honored to have been selected as a Top Doc for the 5th consecutive year (2016-2020). He leads an outstanding team at RMPE, including Dr. Michaela Koontz and Mako Sather, CPNP. Dr. Maniatis attended Harvard Medical School and completed his pediatrics residency and pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Dr. Koontz completed her pediatrics residency and pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital of Case Western Reserve University. Both Dr. Maniatis and Dr. Koontz are doubleboard certified in pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology. Mako Sather completed her post-master’s program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC). She is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and insulin pump trainer.

Dr. Maniatis is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCHSC, serving as a clinical preceptor for physician assistant students. He is a national key opinion leader on growth disorders and has been the national spokesperson for Growth Awareness Week (2018-2020). He also lectures and has published extensively.

RMPE is also involved in clinical research including a type 1 diabetes epidemiology study, multiple phase 3 trials in long-acting growth hormone, and a phase 4 trial in hypophosphatasia bone disease.

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Partnering with the Colorado Department of Public Health, RMPE also provides the initial consultation for all babies in Colorado and Wyoming with an abnormal newborn screen for congenital hypothyroidism.

RMPE has two locations (Centennial and Firestone) and offers Saturday hours.

RMPE also has enhanced COVID-19 safety measures to ensure that everyone in our clinic stays healthy.

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Addiction Psychiatry Joseph P. Cannavo, MD Allergy & Immunology Jatinder S. Aulakh, MD Suzanne L. Fishman, MD Anesthesiology Michael L. Burm, MD Erich N. Marks, MD Keri J. Propst, MD Michael M. Sawyer, MD Cardiovascular Disease William A. Baker, MD David J. Zoloto, MD Child Abuse Pediatrics Jennifer N. Kelloff, MD Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Deirdre Foster, MD Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Laurent Lewkowiez, MD Francis C. Ngo, MD Complex General Surgical Oncology Leonardo Alfaro, MD Philip T. Neff, MD Critical Care Medicine Mana K. Amir, MD Catherine A. Lazar, MD Dermatology Nicole M. Annest, MD Elisa S. Kapler, MD Brian L. Rothschild, MD Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Robyn Nolan, MD Diagnostic Radiology Ryan I. Huffman, MD Emergency Medicine Alisha P. Garth, MD Ari Z. Melmed, MD Jonyean Pei, DO Family Medicine Sarah L. Boyer, MD Kathleen A. Chase, DO Douglas N. Faulkner, MD Felipe Hernandez, MD Michele S. Salli, MD

Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery Sybil Dessie, MD Alexander Shapiro, MD

Neurology Paul A. Foley, MD Lynsee A. Hudson Lang, MD Heidi G. Ray, MD

Gastroenterology Barbara A. Piasecki, MD Christopher J. Shepela, MD

Neuromuscular Medicine Heidi G. Ray, MD Robert W. Schabbing, MD

Geriatric Medicine Bobaker S. Elalem, MD Kathryn E. Schorr-Winchell, MD Heidi C. Xavier, MD

Neuroradiology Scott R. Andersen, MD Sirisha T. Komakula, MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Jessica L. Warner, MD Gynecologic Oncology Julia R. Embry-Schubert, MD Sarah C. Whittier, MD Hematology Lala A. Cornelius, MD Vignesh Narayanan, MD Sravanthi Ravulapati, MD Hospice & Palliative Medicine Andrew R. Robinson, MD Renee M. Rossi, MD Infectious Disease Laura Caragol, MD Internal Medicine Rebecca L. Agnew, MD Fernando L. Arroyo, MD Jennifer S. Smith, MD

Nuclear Medicine Eric K. Bode, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Brittney D. Bastow, MD Jennifer H. Seidel, MD Diane M. Winters, MD Ophthalmology David R. Fintak, MD Erik Letko, MD Orthopedic Sports Medicine Loukas D. Koyonos, MD Orthopedic Surgery Boleslaw L. Czachor, MD George G. Robinson II, MD Otolaryngology Ryan F. Brown, MD

Interventional Cardiology Albert Tseng, MD

Pain Medicine Jeromy M. Cole, MD Michael H. McCeney, MD

Interventional Radiology Michael J. Podolak, MD

Pathology Teresa M. Launder, MD

Maternal & Fetal Medicine Amy Gagnon, MD Joel D. Larma, MD Morgan L. Swank, MD

Pediatrics Jennifer S. Betz, MD Joseph A. Craig, MD Regina O. English, MD Laura A. Newberry, MD

Medical Oncology Lillian Klancar, MD Meghan S. Liel, MD Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery Nicole M. Annest, MD Michelle Draznin, MD Brian W. Petersen, MD Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Michelle Feinberg, MD Ann L. Ryan, MD Neurological Surgery Adam Hebb, MD Erik Parker, MD

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Pediatric Anesthesiology David K. Barclay, MD Jessica Meyers Husum, MD Ryan R. Wilson, MD Pediatric Dermatology Harvey “Alan” Arbuckle, MD Pediatric Radiology Brian M. Bagrosky, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Marsa M. White, MD Plastic Surgery Mark W. Kiehn, MD Plastic Surgery (head & neck) Kevin K. Motamedi, MD Psychiatry Samuel B. Clinch, MD Public Health & General Preventive Medicine Matthew Daley, MD Pulmonary Disease Samay Dalal, MD William V. Kinnard, MD Radiation Oncology Ari Ballonoff, MD Brandon J. Patton, MD Matthew H. Stenmark, MD Rheumatology David J. Silverman, MD Sleep Medicine Esther H. Lum, MD John P. Wilkins, MD Sports Medicine Tracy Frombach, DO Howard J. McGowan, MD Surgery Bruce J. Feigelson, MD Stefanie D. Kolpak, MD Charles F. Pratt, MD Surgery of the Hand Jue Cao, MD Patricia A. Hsu, MD Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery Lanny Dunham, MD Steve P. Panian, MD Transplant Hepatology Heather Laskey, MD Urology Joseph E. Dall’Era, MD Benjamin A. Sherer, MD Vascular Surgery Travis L. Engelbert, MD Timothy H. Liao, MD Thomas F. Rehring, MD

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Boulder / American This charming Boulder restaurant explores the roots of American heritage through food. Reservations accepted. 909 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-3885. Dinner, Brunch

Barolo Grill

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Cherry Creek / Italian Dedication to authenticity translates to the food and extensive wine menu at this elegant eatery, which is focused on the cuisines of northern Italy’s Tuscany and Piedmont regions.

Reservations accepted. 3030 E. Sixth Ave., 303-393-1040. Dinner

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Highland / American The brick-and-mortar location of the popular food truck and former Avanti food stall serves up sandwiches, salads, and more starring beer-battered fried chicken.

Don't miss the hot chicken tacos. Reservations not accepted. 3618 Tejon St., 720-710-6620.

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Capitol Hill / American This meat-free zone features pizza, vegan pastries, and a full bar.

Reservations not accepted. 206 E. 13th Ave., 303-831-6443. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

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Globeville / Latin American You’ll find family recipes from Latin America and Syria at this restaurant, which has a rotating menu and provides job training to local women. Reservations not accepted. 3455 Ringsby Ct., Ste. 105, 303292-0770. Lunch 25 B E S T

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Boulder / Spanish Housed on the rooftop level of the Pearl West building, this elegant Spanish steak house offers Flatiron views and fabulous cocktails and wines. Reservations accepted. 1023 Walnut St., Ste. 400, Boulder, 303-444-1333. Dinner

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Stapleton / Italian Chef Elise Wiggins offers rustic, wood-fired Italian fare from a sprawling chef's counter. Go for grilled oysters, seasonal pizzas, and fresh pastas. Reservations accepted. 10195 E. 29th Dr., Ste. 110, 303-645-3779. Lunch, Dinner Chicken Rebel

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Downtown / Mexican Known for its, slowsimmered carnitas, this locale offers Mexican fare at its best. Reservations not accepted. 1530 Blake St., Ste. C, 720-904-8226. Lunch, Dinner

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Highland / American This restaurant, bar, convenience store, and market serves elevated deli fare in an eclectic setting. Reservations not accepted. 1575 Boulder St., Unit A, 303-5375323. Lunch, Dinner

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Aurora / American Chef Caroline Glover brings a warm dining experience to Stanley Marketplace with Annette. Enjoy a family-style menu featuring seasonal salads, toasts, and wood-grilled fare.

Reservations accepted. Stanley Marketplace, 2501 Dallas St., Ste. 108, Aurora, 720-710-9975.

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Boulder / New American Chef Hosea Rosenberg’s meaty menu focuses on charcuterie, small plates, and daily butcher specials. Check out the butcher shop and grab-and-go market, Blackbelly Butcher, located next door.

Reservations accepted. 1606 Conestoga St., Boulder, 303-247-1000. Dinner

Five Points / New American Contemporary American cuisine with Southern and Moroccan notes is served from an oak-fired oven and grill at this mainstay inside the Source. Reservations accepted. The Source, 3350 Brighton Blvd., 720-542-3721. Lunch, Dinner

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Five Points / Scandinavian Chef Duncan Holmes brings an elevated, intimate, ticketed patio dining experience to Larimer Street. The Scandinavianinfluenced menu changes seasonally, and excellent, thoughtful wine pairings are available.

Reservations required. 2843 Larimer St., 303-7490020. Dinner 25 B E S T

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North Capitol Hill / Seasonal A sustainablesourcing mantra permeates a menu featuring everything from local lamb to cod collars. Look for weekend farmers’ market pop-ups and to-go pastas and meal kits from sister restaurant, Coperta.

719 E. 17th Ave., 303-623-3223. Dinner

It’s a food-and-beverage first for Boulder: a brewery-distillery combo, thanks to the teams behind Durango’s Ska Brewing Co. and Palisade’s Peach Street Distillers. At fivemonth-old Ska Street Brewstillery, pair a Palisade peach margarita with the Dagwood sandwich, which is loaded with smoked duck, brisket, pastrami, grilled kale, cheddar, and house-made Pinstripe Red Ale mustard.

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Five Points / Italian One thing you can count on at Alex Figura and Spencer White’s fast-casual Italian eatery: perfect pasta. Try the cacio e pepe or the squid ink fusilli with blue crab. The house-made sourdough is heavenly. 3264 Larimer St., 303-562-1965. Dinner

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Highland / Italian This comfy neighborhood hangout features old-school favorites, such as chicken Parmesan. Reservations accepted. 3760 Tejon St., 303-455-9852. Lunch, Dinner, Brunch

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Five Points / Chinese From Tommy Lee of Uncle, this neighborhood hangout serves dishes rooted in Chinese tradition with a touch of distinctive flair. Try the dan dan mian. Reservations accepted. 3500 Larimer St., 720-379-8340. Dinner

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Highland / Mexican The flavors and beachy vibes of Mexico's Baja California peninsula shine at Lola.

Order the chile-crusted ahi tuna bowl. Lunch service is available for takeout only. Reservations accepted. 1575 Boulder St., 720-570-8686.

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Littleton / Japanese Fresh fish is flown in daily from coastlines around the world for Makizushico’s menu of sushi, sashimi, and variety of hot and cold Japanese-style small plates. Try the omakase.

Reservations accepted. 5950 S. Platte Canyon Rd., Littleton, 720-739-7777. Lunch, Dinner NEW

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Downtown / French Lon Symensma's upscale, European-inspired eatery features table-side preparations and a roving cheese cart. Don't miss the Paris-Brest dessert. Reservations accepted. 1555 Blake St., Ste. 102, 720-8451673. Lunch, Dinner Lola Coastal Mexican

Aurora / Ethiopian Pastry chef and owner Hiwot Solomon pairs her from-scratch desserts with house-roasted, single-origin Ethiopian coffee at this cheery Aurora cafe. Reservations not accepted.

10782 E. Iliff Ave, Aurora, 720-949-1703.

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Downtown / Japanese Chefs Marcus Eng and Sam Soell’s bento box delivery service is inspired by the traditional boxed lunches sold at train stations in Japan. Expect ultrafresh, seasonal ingredients prepared with skill and care. 2706 Larimer St., 303-868-3703. Lunch, Dinner

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Edgewater / International Satisfy your cravings for everything from wild game sandwiches to Ethiopian fare at this eclectic collective of over two dozen food stalls and boutiques. Reservations not accepted. 5505 W. 20th Ave., Edgewater, 303-797-9119. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Brunch

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J Five Points / Southern This isn't your typical Southern restaurant. Chef Kyle Foster serves sophisticated dishes inspired by the flavors and techniques of the South, such as barbecued snails and pork and oyster sausage. Whatever you do, don't miss Foster's exemplary biscuits. Reservations accepted. 3258 Larimer St., 303-295-8977.

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Monaco Parkway and Leetsdale Drive, friendly owner Ismet Yilmaz prepares authentic Turkish pastries. Try the pistacio baklava. 850 S. Monaco Pkwy., Ste. #9, 720-536-5455.

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Aurora / Chinese A menu of homemade steamed, boiled, and pan-fried dumplings complement a selection of noodle and rice bowls and vegetable-forward sides at this Los Angeles–born spot. 9655 E. Montview Blvd., Aurora, 303-600-8998. Lunch, Dinner

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Downtown / New American Award-winning chefs Alex Seidel and Matt Vawter offer upscale, contemporary farm-to-table fare, including pasta dishes and family-style shared plates for the table. Reservations accepted. Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop St., Ste. 155, 720-460-3733.

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Downtown/ Pub This casual bar serves fantastic French dip sandwiches (try the smoked mushroom variety) and craft cocktails. Reservations accepted.

1808 Blake St., 720-710-8144. Lunch, Dinner

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City Park West / Chinese Enjoy a modern take on Chinese cuisine executed by chef Christopher Lin, an alum of Momofuku in New York City. Try the braised pork rice. Reservations accepted. 3421 E. Colfax Ave., 720-729-8887. Dinner

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Rioja

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Washington Park / Italian This cozy-yet-modern neighborhood spot from the team behind Bistro Georgette specializes in fresh pastas and Italian classics. Reservations accepted. 209 S. Downing St., 303-999-0395. Dinner

Downtown/ Mediterranean James Beard Award– winning chef Jennifer Jasinski creates high-end Mediterranean-influenced cuisine. Also try her lunchtime takeout pop-up, Flavor Dojo, which offers health-forward bowls made with heirloom grains and greens. Reservations accepted. 1431 Larimer St., 303-820-2282. Lunch, Dinner, Brunch

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Rosedale / Barbecue House-smoked Colorado craft barbecue is the specialty at this laid-back spot. Innovative meats like bison short ribs and lamb shank are available. Reservations not accepted. 2387 S. Downing St., 303-722-2226.

Lunch, Dinner

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Five Points / Mediterranean Acclaimed chef Alon Shaya brings modern Israeli fare to Denver. Start with the creamy hummus and pillowy wood-oven pita before moving onto tabbouleh salad, charred cabbage, and halloumi. Reservations accepted.

The Source Hotel & Market Hall, 3330 Brighton Blvd., 720-408-2444. Dinner, Brunch

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Quality Care with a Personal Touch When you come to Aspenwood Dental Associates and Colorado Dental Implant Center, your family becomes like family to us. We treat you how we would like to be treated, and you can be assured that you will receive nothing less than the best dental care we can provide. From general dentistry to dental implants and dentures, we help patients of all ages achieve and maintain a beautiful smile.

Voted 5280 Top Dentist | 2008-2020

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Boulder / American This brewery-distillery hybrid from the team behind Durango’s Ska Brewing Co. and Palisade’s Peach Street Distillers offers nearly 30 beers on tap, craft cocktails, and a menu of elevated pub fare. Reservations accepted. 1600 38th St., Boulder, 720-510-9921.

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Highland / Italian Enjoy the locally sourced menu at this Italian-inspired spot. Try the seasonal pasta or any dish with Southern Indian influences.

Be sure to save room for the house-made gelato.

Reservations accepted. 2639 W. 32nd Ave., 303-433-0949. Dinner 25 B E S T

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Five Points / Latin American Chef Dana Rodriguez of Work & Class offers a combo of large-format items and Pan-Latin small plates. Try the braised lamb with grilled cactus salad. Reservations not accepted. The Ramble Hotel, 1260 25th St., 720-269-4695. Dinner

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South Park Hill / American A glass of wine, flickering candlelight, and mismatched tables set the tone at this cozy neighborhood restaurant.

Reservations accepted. 2267 Kearney St., 303-388-0299. Dinner

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City Park West / Mediterranean This family-run restaurant serves silky hummus, a variety of excellent grilled kebabs, and from-scratch sweets. Try the beef koobideh. Reservations not accepted. 2207 E. Colfax Ave., 720-532-8746. Lunch, Dinner

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Five Points / Barbecue This unpretentious barbecue joint offers a Deep South menu, featuring slow-smoked pork ribs, chicken wings, and brisket with sides like hash brown casserole, beans, and creamy coleslaw. Also try the Greenwood Village location. 2150 Broadway, 303-296-3334. Lunch, Dinner

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Five Points / Global This industrial-chic food hall, is home to eight globally inspired food and drink vendors and two bars. Options include Vinh Xuong Bakery, OK Poke, Norm’s Deli, La Doña, Budlong Hot Chicken, and more. 3501 Wazee St., 720-460-1978. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Brunch

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Sunnyside / Contemporary Basta chef Kelly Whitaker fuses Asian and Italian techniques and ingredients at this hip Sunnyside eatery. The results, such as 7x brisket braised in dashi and red wine

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Downtown / Chinese This cozy, counter-service spot offers Chinese home-style cooking. Order the Szechuan braised beef noodle soup, which features the homemade noodles. Also try the Boulder location. 1625 Wynkoop St., 303-5456262. Lunch, Dinner

Zolo Grill

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Boulder / Southwestern Zolo offers Southwestern fare prepared with locally sourced ingredientst. Try the Colorado mushroom tamales. Reservations accepted. 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-0444. Lunch, Dinner

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Five Points / Southern Enjoy soul food with a dash of Caribbean flair at this Five Points cafe. Order the fried chicken. 2736 Welton St., 303-296-6602.

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Curtis Park / Sushi James Beard Award-winning chef Tyson Cole combines unexpected flavors for his unique take on Japanese food. Try the sake toro aburi or the foie gras sushi. Reservations accepted.

2500 Lawrence St., 303-444-1922. Dinner

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Downtown / Pub Enjoy a Mile High Pale Ale and feast on pub favorites such as pretzel knots with Patty’s Chile Beer queso, bison meatloaf, or green chile at one of Denver’s original brewpubs.

Reservations accepted. 1634 18th St., 303-2972700. Lunch, Dinner

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Downtown / Italian The team behind Boulder’s acclaimed Frasca Food and Wine offers the same attention to hospitality at their more casual Denver restaurant. The charming space is home to dishes from across Italy and a deep wine list. Reservations accepted. 1889 16th St, 720-605-1889.

Lunch, Dinner

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and house-extruded mafaldine pasta with koji tomatoes, are unique and delicious. Reservations accepted. 4058 Tejon St., 720-456-6507. Dinner

Zomo

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Englewood / Asian At Zomo, owners Alysia Davey and Ryan Anderson are serving egg rolls, pho, stir-fries, and other family recipes inspired by their Vietnamese and Chinese roots. Reservations accepted. 3457 S. Broadway, Englewood, 720-739-8882. Lunch, Dinner  These listings are in no way related to advertising in 5280. If

you find that a restaurant differs significantly from the information in its listing or your favorite restaurant is missing from the Dining Guide, please let us know. Write us at 5280 Publishing, Inc., 1675 Larimer St., Suite 675, Denver, CO 80202 or dining@5280.com.

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Life in Motion Focusing on post-operative recovery, Life Care Center of Stonegate features a homelike environment where patients of all ages may rehabilitate after surgery or a hospital stay while regaining strength. We offer inpatient and outpatient physical, occupational and speech therapies, as well as 24-hour skilled nursing care.

Our team approach to care connects dedicated nurses and therapists with state-of-the-art rehab equipment such as the AlterGÂŽ Anti-Gravity TreadmillÂŽ. With an on-site physician offering faster, more convenient patient and resident care, our associates provide high levels of care and service to all individuals.

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7600 Shaffer Parkway Littleton 80127 303-338-4545 2955 S. Broadway Englewood 80113 303-338-4545

Lucy Loomis DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY

1001 Yosemite St. Denver 80230 303-436-6000

Linda Montgomery UNIVERSITY

3055 Roslyn St., Suite 100 Denver 80238 720-848-9000

Sybil Dessie

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

Rodrigo Donalisio Da Silva DENVER HEALTH, VETERANS

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Tyler Muffly DENVER HEALTH

790 Delaware St., Pavilion C Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Alexander Shapiro ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

GASTROENTEROLOGY

Jonathan Fishman ROSE

4500 E. Ninth Ave., Suite 7205 Denver 80220 303-355-352

Kathryn Schorr-Winchell 2550 S. Parker Road Aurora 80014 303-338-4545

Heidi Xavier

UNIVERSITY

8383 W. Alameda Ave. Lakewood 80226 303-338-4545

4200 E. Ninth Ave. Denver 80220 303-315-7424

GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY

Swati Patel

Barbara A. Piasecki GOOD SAMARITAN, ST. JOSEPH

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Christopher Shepela ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

GERIATRIC MEDICINE Bobaker Elalem

2550 S. Parker Road Aurora 80014 303-338-4545

Benjamin Alderfer PORTER

2464 S. Downing St., Suite 110 Denver 80210 303-778-5774

Jessica L. Warner GOOD SAMARITAN, ST. JOSEPH

9139 S. Ridgeline Blvd.

Highlands Ranch 80126 303-338-4545

GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY John Curtin

DENVER HEALTH

790 Delaware St., Pavilion C Denver 80204 303-436-6000

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TOP DOCTORS 2020 Kevin Davis

Jeanie Youngwerth

SWEDISH

UNIVERSITY

701 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 210 Englewood 80113 303-781-9090

12605 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-0000

Julia Embry-Schubert ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Mary Jo Schmitz SWEDISH

701 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 210 Englewood 80113 303-781-9090

Sarah Whittier ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

HEMATOLOGY

Lala Cornelius ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Raymond N. Blum PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S, ST. JOSEPH

1601 E. 19th Ave., Suite 3700 Denver 80218 303-831-4774

Laura Caragol ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

1375 E. 20th Ave. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

John Hammer ROSE

4500 E. Ninth Ave., Suite 740 Denver 80220 303-515-2316

Lindsay Nicholson VETERANS

1700 Wheeling St. Aurora 80045 303-399-8040

Heather Young DENVER HEALTH

Alan Feiner ROSE

4700 Hale Parkway, Suite 400 Denver 80220 303-321-0202

Vignesh Narayanan SKY RIDGE

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

Sravanthi Ravulapati GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Christiane Thienelt DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Renee Rossi ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE, SWEDISH

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

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700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

John Messenger UNIVERSITY, VETERANS, CHILDREN’S

12505 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-5300

Albert Tseng ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY Joshua Bryant

AVISTA, ST. ANTHONY

2490 W. 26th Ave., Suite 220A Denver 80211 303-433-9729

Peder E. Horner PARKER

1746 Cole Blvd., Suite 150 Lakewood 80401 303-914-8800

Sam McMurry DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Michael Podolak

7701 Sheridan Blvd.

Westminster 80003 303-338-4545

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Rebecca Agnew

Fernando Arroyo

7600 Shaffer Parkway Littleton 80127 303-338-4545

Mark Earnest UNIVERSITY

1635 Aurora Court, Fifth Floor Aurora 80045 720-848-2300

VETERANS

Andrew R. Robinson

Matthew R. Holland

INTERNAL MEDICINE

Kate Jennings

HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

1055 Clermont St. Aurora 80220 303-315-7424

Hemali Patel UNIVERSITY

12505 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-0000

Jennifer Smith

10400 E. Alameda Ave. Denver 80247 303-338-4545

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

MATERNAL & FETAL MEDICINE Amy Gagnon

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

1960 N. Ogden St. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

Kent Heyborne DENVER HEALTH

790 Delaware St., Pavilion C Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Joel D. Larma ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

1960 Ogden St. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

Julie Scott UNIVERSITY, CHILDREN’S

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-1060

Morgan L. Swank ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

1960 Ogden St. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY Lillian Klancar SKY RIDGE

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

Meghan S. Liel ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Wells Messersmith UNIVERSITY, HIGHLANDS RANCH

1665 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-0300

Sonia Okuyama Sasaki DENVER HEALTH

700 Delaware St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY Jennie Buchanan

DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY, CHILDREN’S

777 Bannock St., Pavilion A Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Kennon Heard UNIVERSITY, CHILDREN’S

12605 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-0000

George Sam Wang CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6888

MICROGRAPHIC DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY Nicole M. Annest

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Michelle Draznin GOOD SAMARITAN, ST. JOSEPH

5555 E. Arapahoe Road Centennial 80122 303-338-4545

Brian Petersen ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

5555 E. Arapahoe Road Centennial 80122 303-338-4545

TOP DOCTORS 2020 NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE Michelle Feinberg

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

1375 E. 19th Ave. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

Patricia Hagan DENVER HEALTH

790 Delaware St., Pavilion C Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Ann L. Ryan ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

1375 E. 19th Ave. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

NEPHROLOGY

Judith Blaine UNIVERSITY

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-0749

Anna Jovanovich UNIVERSITY

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-0749

Stuart Linas

Michael J. Drewek

DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY

ORTHOCOLORADO, ST. ANTHONY

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

660 Golden Ridge Road, Suite 250 Golden 80401 303-233-1223

1375 E. 20th Ave. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Morgan Marcuccilli

Adam Hebb

Edward Maa

4891 Independence St., Suite 120 Wheat Ridge 80033 303-456-5495

NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Ellen R. Elias CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6739

Sandra L. Friedman CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6630

NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY

Kathryn Beauchamp DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Lynsee Hudson Lang

ST. JOSEPH

DENVER HEALTH

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Kevin Lillehei

Simon Oh

UNIVERSITY

AURORA

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-2080

1400 S. Potomac St., Suite 201 Aurora 80012 720-248-5200

Erik Parker

Heidi G. Ray

ST. JOSEPH

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

NEUROLOGY

NEUROLOGY (SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS IN CHILD NEUROLOGY)

Paul A. Foley ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Timothy Bernard CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6895

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David Naeger

CHILDREN’S

DENVER HEALTH

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6895

777 Bannock St., Pavilion A Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Andrew M. White DENVER HEALTH, CHILDREN’S

301 W. Sixth Ave., Pavilion G Denver 80204 303-436-6000

NEUROMUSCULAR MEDICINE

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Brittney Bastow

ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE, UNIVERSITY

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

Heidi G. Ray

Kirsten Lund

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Robert W. Schabbing

Jessica Salinas

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

LITTLETON

10350 E. Dakota Ave. Denver 80247 303-338-4545

7720 S. Broadway, Suite 250 Littleton 80122 720-922-6240

NEURORADIOLOGY

Scott R. Andersen

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

Joseph Houkal DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Sirisha Komakula 280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

NEUROTOLOGY

Jennifer Seidel GOOD SAMARITAN, ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

Diane M. Winters ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-2800

Samuel Gubbels UNIVERSITY, CHILDREN’S

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-2820

David Nosan

DENVER HEALTH

780 Delaware St., Pavilion B Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Loukas D. Koyonos ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Eric McCarty UNIVERSITY, BROOMFIELD

175 Inverness Drive West, Suite 200 Englewood 80112 303-694-3333

Andrew Parker ROSE

4700 Hale Parkway, Suite 550 Denver 80220 303-321-6600

ORTHOCOLORADO, ST. ANTHONY, LITTLETON

660 Golden Ridge Road, Suite 250 Golden 80401 303-233-1223

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Mark Conklin

ORTHOCOLORADO, ST. ANTHONY

Cyril Mauffrey DENVER HEALTH

1400 Jackson St. Denver 80206 303-398-1355

780 Delaware St., Pavilion B Denver 80204 303-436-6000

OPHTHALMOLOGY

George G. Robinson II

David Fintak

GOOD SAMARITAN

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

OTOLARYNGOLOGY 2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Erik Letko

Todd Kingdom

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Narayana Varhabhatla UNIVERSITY

12605 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-848-0000

PATHOLOGY

Steve Groshong NATIONAL JEWISH

1400 Jackson St. Denver 80206 303-398-1355

Teresa Launder

PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIOLOGY

ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

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2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

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Michael H. McCeney

4318 Trail Boss Drive, Suite 100 Castle Rock 80104 303-338-4545

DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY

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2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Boleslaw Czachor

Vernon Maas

PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S

10240 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-338-4545

Jeromy M. Cole

OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

Cristos Ifantides

Eric K. Bode

PAIN MEDICINE

David Schneider

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN,

NUCLEAR MEDICINE

DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY, VETERANS

700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

11000 E. 45th Ave. Denver 80239 303-338-4545

NATIONAL JEWISH

UNIVERSITY

Jarrod King

Scott Mann

660 Golden Ridge Road, Suite 250 Golden 80401 303-233-1223

Lisa A. Maier

Carol Foster

ORTHOPEDIC SPORTS MEDICINE

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Ryan Brown

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

UNIVERSITY, CHILDREN’S, NATIONAL JEWISH

1635 Aurora Court, Sixth Floor Aurora 80045 720-848-7900

David Barclay

ST. JOSEPH, PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S, SKY RIDGE

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Jessica Meyers Husum ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE, PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Lee Stein DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St., Pavilion A Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Ryan Wilson ST. JOSEPH, SKY RIDGE, CHILDREN’S

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

TOP DOCTORS 2020 PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY Shannon Buckvold CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6820

D. Dunbar Ivy CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6820

David J. Miller RMHC, SKY RIDGE

10099 Ridgegate Parkway, Suite 300 Lone Tree 80124 303-860-9933

Marco Pinder CHILDREN’S, DENVER HEALTH

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6820

PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Todd Carpenter CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 303-724-8393

Eva Grayck CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 303-724-8393

Claudia Kunrath DENVER HEALTH, CHILDREN’S

790 Delaware St., Pavilion C Denver 80204 303-436-6000

PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY Harvey A. Arbuckle

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, CHILDREN’S

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Anna Bruckner CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-8445

Elizabeth Swanson AURORA, RMHC

12645 E. Euclid Drive Centennial 80111 303-493-1910

PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE Joseph A. Grubenhoff CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6888

Taylor McCormick DENVER HEALTH

777 Bannock St., Pavilion A Denver 80204 303-436-6000

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY Aristides Maniatis SWEDISH

7336 S. Yosemite St., Suite 200 Centennial 80112 720-420-3636

Sunil Nayak RMHC, SWEDISH, SKY RIDGE

8200 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 510E Greenwood Village 80111 303-783-3883

Philip Zeitler CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6128

PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY David Brumbaugh CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6669

Jason S. Soden CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6669

Theodore Stathos CASTLE ROCK, RMHC, SKY RIDGE

10465 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree 80124 303-790-1515

PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY & ONCOLOGY Carrye Cost CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6672

Lia Gore CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6672

Brian S. Greffe CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6672

Julie Zimbelman

PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL MEDICINE Jennifer Reese

PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY Robin Deterding

CHILDREN’S

CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-5070

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6181

Barry Seltz

Monica J. Federico

CHILDREN’S

CHILDREN’S, DENVER HEALTH

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-5070

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6181

PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES James T. Gaensbauer CHILDREN’S, DENVER HEALTH

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6981

Kevin B. Messacar CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6072

Sarah Parker

Oren Kupfer CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6181

Scott Sagel CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6181

PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY

Brian M. Bagrosky

CHILDREN’S

CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6072

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY Mindy A. Banks RMHC

2055 High St., Suite 270 Denver 80205 303-301-9010

Margret Bock CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6263

Danielle E. Soranno

Lisa A. Niebergall RMHC, PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S

1746 Cole Blvd., Suite 150 Lakewood 80401 303-914-8800

Jaime Stewart CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6541

PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION MEDICINE Susan Apkon

CHILDREN’S

CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6263

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-2806

PEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY Jennifer Black

CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6714

Mark A. Lovell CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6714

Aaron Powell CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-2806

Pamela Wilson CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-2806

RMHC, PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S, SKY RIDGE

2055 High St., Suite 340 Denver 80205 303-832-2344

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13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6132

Jennifer B. Soep CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6132

PEDIATRIC SURGERY

Denis D. Bensard DENVER HEALTH, CHILDREN’S

700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Jennifer L. Bruny CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6571

David Partrick CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6571

PEDIATRIC TRANSPLANT HEPATOLOGY Amy G. Feldman CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6669

Fritz Karrer CHILDREN’S, DENVER HEALTH

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6571

Duncan T. Wilcox

Mark Kiehn

CHILDREN’S

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-3926

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Corrine Wong

Sarah Roark

PEDIATRICS

Jennifer Betz

859 S. Fourth St. Brighton 80601 303-338-4545

Joseph A. Craig CHILDREN’S

4318 Trail Boss Drive Castle Rock 80104 303-338-4545

Regina O. English CHILDREN’S

7600 Shaffer Parkway Littleton 80127 303-338-4545

Noah Makovsky ROSE, PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S, CHILDREN’S

2975 Roslyn St., Suite 100 Denver 80238 303-399-7900

Jay Markson CHILDREN’S

1625 Marion St. Denver 80218 303-830-7337

Laura Newberry

10168 Parkglenn Way Parker 80138 303-338-4545

Sonja O’Leary DENVER HEALTH

3955 Steele St. Denver 80205 303-436-6000

Shikha S. Sundaram CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-6669

PEDIATRIC UROLOGY Job Chacko

PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION Michael Horner

660 Golden Ridge Road, Suite 250 Golden 80401 303-223-1223

Susan Ladley DENVER HEALTH, UNIVERSITY

RMHC

1601 E. 19th Ave., Suite 6400 Denver 80218 303-839-7200

777 Bannock St. Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Nicholas G. Cost

Marsa White

CHILDREN’S

13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045 720-777-3926

2045 Franklin St. Denver 80205 303-338-4545

Joyce Aycock

SKY RIDGE, PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S, ROSE

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DENVER HEALTH

700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

700 Delaware St., Davis Pavilion Denver 80204 303-436-6000

PLASTIC SURGERY ( WITHIN THE HEAD & NECK )

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

David Broadway SKY RIDGE

9777 S. Yosemite St., Suite 200 Lone Tree 80124 303-683-8989

Kevin K. Motamedi ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN

280 Exempla Circle Lafayette 80026 303-338-4545

Adam Terella UNIVERSITY, CHILDREN’S

1635 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-2820

PSYCHIATRY

Samuel Clinch GOOD SAMARITAN, ST. JOSEPH

7701 Sheridan Blvd.

Westminster 80003 303-338-4545

Elizabeth L. Lowdermilk DENVER HEALTH

667 Bannock St., Pavilion K Denver 80204 303-436-6000

Christopher Schneck

36 Steele St., Suite 200 Denver 80206 720-634-7400

Ari Ballonoff

ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

1375 E. 19th Ave. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

Paige Dorn ROSE

4700 Hale Parkway Denver 80220 303-320-7006

Christine Fisher UNIVERSITY, HIGHLANDS RANCH

1665 Aurora Court Aurora 80045 720-848-0300

Brandon Patton ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, SKY RIDGE

1375 E. 19th Ave. Denver 80218 303-338-4545

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conversation,” he told the officers. He said he’d stopped taking his antidepressant medication and hadn’t seen his “shrink” in weeks.

What concerned the officers most, however, was that Brian had decided that had he been caught with a gun, his “plan was to go out like a soldier”—in other words, suicide by cop. Brian would’ve checked nearly every box on any psychiatrist’s suicide risk assessment test. True and Goodman made sure that when Brian was booked into the Arapahoe County Detention Facility at 12:15 a.m., he was immediately placed on suicide watch.

J A I L D I V I S I O N C H I E F Chris Laws can’t remember exactly when the idea for building a dedicated mental health unit at the Adams County Detention Facility was born. His best guess is 2008, but it felt like it had been even further back that he and his colleagues at the jail began noticing an uptick in arrestees suffering from significant psychiatric issues. “We had such an influx of people who really would’ve benefitted more from inpatient mental health care,” he says, “than from being in jail.

Many of them really didn’t belong in jail.

We had nowhere to put them and no real resources to help them get better.”

In those three sentences, Laws sums up one of the United States’ most complex social justice issues: Over the past several decades, correctional facilities have become the largest providers of mental health care services in the nation, in part because America inadvertently criminalized mental health conditions. The abridged history lesson is this: There has never been an allencompassing national system for mental health care in the United States, but staterun psychiatric hospitals began caring for those with severe mental illness early in the country’s history. By the first half of the 20th century, though, America’s asylums were overcrowded, hitting their peak in the 1950s. During the decades that followed, several things led to a decrease in the use of inpatient beds, particularly the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, which encouraged a shift from mental health care services being delivered in state facilities to being meted out in what, in theory, would’ve been community-based settings.

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By the late 1990s, most psychiatric hoshealth unit, which is currently staffed by pitals had closed; however, the federal Wellpath, opened in March 2018. The area government had not allotted approprihas a variety of cells to accommodate difate funding for community-based mental ferent circumstances, a reintegration or health care services to meet the needs of “step-down” area for inmates coming off those who still required care. A vacuum suicide watch who aren’t yet ready to join had been created, and it was filled by the the general population, and a daytime criminal justice system. communal space. Since its opening, the Today, when someone with psychiatfacility hadn’t experienced a suicide—until ric illness displays behaviors that had once late spring this year. “We feel like we have been managed by being admitted (somea better overall grasp of those who need times involuntarily) to a mental health mental health services now,” Laws says, hospital, he is instead often met by police adding that communities and the state officers, who in turn may arrest him—often should help fund similar efforts in other for violating what are known as nuisance counties. “Honestly, every jail needs an area laws, crimes such as loitering, trespassing, like this.” or disorderly conduct. In Colorado, it has I N M AT E S I N T H E United States are the only been unlawful since 2017 to house in jail Americans with an actual legal right to people experiencing a mental health crisis health care, but the law doesn’t offer much who may be a danger to themselves or othguidance on exactly how to provide it. ers but who have not committed a crime.

Without mandatory national standards and However, if inpatient beds at hospitals or no state regulations or inspection programs other psychiatric care facilities are full— in Colorado, county sheriffs must deterand they often are—jail may be the only mine for themselves how best to deliver alternative. “In this country, we’re trained Constitution-worthy care—lest they open to dial 911 when someone needs help,” says themselves up to litigation.

Shannon Scully, senior manager of crimiDepending on available resources, shernal justice policy for the National Alliance iffs often choose between three potential on Mental Illness. “But that doesn’t necsetups: a public option, in which a county essarily mean a medical response; it often employs its own health care workers to means law enforcement shows up. Even run an in-house jail medical unit; a conif officers don’t want to take someone to tract with a local hospital network or other jail, they often have nowhere else to take local providers; or a contract them. Which is a contributwith a private, for-profit coring factor to Bureau of Justice rectional health care firm. An Statistics numbers that say 44 GETTING HELP If you or a loved one open records request of the percent of people in jail have a is experiencing an Front Range’s 10 most popumental health condition.” acute mental health lous counties found the vast The problem, as Laws points crisis, Colorado majority of the jails employ out, is that jails are not equipped Crisis Services a for-profit firm for part or all to deal with severe mental illoffers a hotline of their health care services. ness. Detention centers, many where trained Because of jail sizes, varying of them built long before the professionals can demographics, and hybrid desteep rise in inmates with mentalk you through an livery methods, there’s no easy tal health conditions, often do emergency. Call way to quantifiably determine not have the brick-and-mortar 1-844-493-8255 or text TALK to 38255. which route serves inmates best; facilities or staff necessary to however, civil rights attorneys,​ appropriately screen people physical and mental health exfor acute or chronic psychiatperts, and even some sheriffs argue that ric conditions nor to monitor them once having a for-profit company in the equation they are identified. At the Adams County complicates matters.

Detention Facility, inmates struggling with Perhaps not surprisingly, detractors of mental illness had been sent to the on-site for-profit health care companies operating medical unit, but the isolation of that area inside jails make the most noise about cost wasn’t ideal. A spate of suicides—10 of the motivation. Once a county has selected a jail’s 13 deaths between 2011 and 2016 profit-oriented firm through a government were from asphyxia—emboldened officials bidding process, that firm—frequently the at the jail to finally make the idea of a dedilowest bidder—knows generally what its cated mental health unit a reality. gross revenue will be over the term of the After a $3.2 million renovation of what contract. “They’re in it for the money,” says had been a dorm-style pod, the mental

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The same goes for not providing prescription medications to inmates in a timely fashion, not calling in a physician to see a very sick patient, or not dialing 911 for an ambulance to bring an inmate

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to the emergency room. Other common complaints include poorly trained staff, high staff turnover, nurses making medical decisions doctors should make, employees buying into the widespread idea that inmates are often faking their illnesses, lax screening practices, and unsound policies surrounding suicide watch procedures.

For civil rights attorneys who field calls from both inmates’ families and former inmates themselves, the grievances are

familiar: Someone had been mentally ill or physically sick, had suffered, or, in some cases, had died, all because they didn’t have a free person’s access to health care. When a private correctional health care firm is involved, though, mounting a case to show that its employees acted with “deliberate indifference” toward an inmate’s health care needs—the high bar set by the U.S. Supreme Court—can be an exercise in futility.

“There’s a real transparency barrier,” says civil rights attorney Ed Budge. “If a jail is run by the county, at least I can get records through open records requests. If it’s a private company, it is not subject to those requests. I can’t get the information I need to get to know what happened. And I can’t file a lawsuit without knowing what happened.” It’s a Catch-22 that means many cases—whether they’re filed against the county or the private firm or both—that may have merit never get filed, much less see the inside of a courtroom.

For those who have lost loved ones inside a county jail, the legal smokescreen produced by a private firm for a county can appear intentional. In 2019, Wellpath’s chief strategy officer told the New Yorker that the company routinely indemnifies local governments from legal costs of suits alleging medical mistakes. “Using a private firm can be a key part of the decision for some counties who want to wash their hands of this,” Budge says. “This isn’t always true and doesn’t always work, but plausible deniability can come into play.”

If for-profit health care companies are challenging to manage, appear to put the bottom line above inmates’ health, and only offer some measure of legal protection, the logical question is: Why do jails partner with them so willingly? The short answer is money. After disappointing experiences with Correct Care Solutions (now Wellpath) and Armor, El Paso County Sheriff Elder decided in 2019 that he’d had enough of for-profit companies operating in his jail.

He and his team went about trying to set up a community-based model, working with local hospitals and health care professionals, for 2020. Although Elder believes there is a way to make the switch and that it’s the right thing to do for the incarcerated community, he wasn’t able to find a way to get it done. “The challenge is just a complete lack of funding,” he says. “The private company says it can get the mental health part of the contract done for $1,250,000. It was going to cost $3 million to $4 million for us to do just that part in the community.”

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I N P R I S O N E R P A R L A N C E , “turtle suit,” “Bam Bam suit,” and “pickle suit” all refer to the same thing: a safety smock. Made from heavily quilted fabric, the bulky, collarless, sleeveless gown can’t be tightly rolled or easily torn and typically has Velcro fasteners to keep it in place around the otherwise naked body of an inmate who has been placed on suicide watch. It is well-known among anyone who has ever been in jail or worked in a jail that people despise wearing the smock and that they will do or say nearly anything to avoid it as well as the other indignities of being constantly observed. I have no doubt Brian hated it, too.

Between the hours of 12:15 a.m. and shortly after 9 a.m. on January 18, 2018, Arapahoe County jail security staff monitored Brian roughly every 15 minutes. The observation log notes his movements— “sitting on bunk” at 12:34 a.m., “on [right side] breathing” at 2:57 a.m., “on stomach” sleeping at 5:11 a.m., sleeping and breathing at 8:42 a.m. Approximately 23 minutes later, at 9:05 a.m., the final entry reads “cleared.”

The initials next to the last memo signify that Brian was evaluated using a Suicide Watch Initial Assessment form and then taken off suicide watch by a Correct Care Solutions mental health professional, presumably to allow Brian to attend his 9:30 a.m. advisement hearing in court without being on suicide watch, according to a lawsuit filed on Brian’s behalf in January 2019.

Although the Arapahoe County Detention Facility says it has never had a policy that inmates must be released from suicide watch to attend court hearings, Wellpath declined to comment for this story and would not answer questions about its current policies or practices or those of Correct Care Solutions, which became Wellpath during a merger in 2018.

Dressed in an orange jumpsuit, Brian appeared in front of Judge Eric White looking tired and lost. He barely moved as the prosecutor explained the circumstances surrounding Brian’s arrest, informed the judge that Brian had essentially told investigators he was suicidal, detailed that the

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THE LONELIEST PLACE TO DIE mandatory minimum sentence he could seek for each robbery would be 10 to 32 years, and asked the court to increase the bond from $250,000 to $1 million, an unusually high number that elicited outbursts from other detainees awaiting their hearings. The public defender objected to the proposed bond increase; however, White disagreed, saying that although it “...certainly sounds counterintuitive every time I say it from here to keep someone in jail, the jail is the best place for me to ensure this defendant doesn’t harm himself.”

As an Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office deputy escorted him out of the courtroom, Brian looked at the gallery. His one-time girlfriend, Sarah, with whom he shared a daughter, and his sister, Becky, were at the hearing. Becky said “I love you” loud enough for him to hear—and he said it back to her as he walked away.

Upon his return to the Arapahoe County Detention Facility, a different Correct Care Solutions employee spoke with Brian and administered a Receiving Screening. The nurse’s documentation demonstrates that he was aware Brian had “major depressive disorder, recurrent”; that he had been receiving mental health treatment for depression and had been prescribed the antidepressant citalopram; and that Brian’s DUI back in the fall had actually been a suicide attempt. Yet on the Suicide Potential Screening portion of the form, the nurse incorrectly marked that the arresting officers hadn’t believed Brian to be a suicide risk. He also marked “no” to the question about whether Brian had expressed thoughts about killing himself.

According to the form itself, if the nurse had checked “yes” to either question, Brian would have been immediately referred for a mental health evaluation.

Instead, after having just learned his bond had been raised to $1 million and that he was looking at a lengthy prison sentence for his crimes, he was not given any medication for depression. No consultation with a psychiatrist was ordered; he would be checked on by a counselor in seven days. His module card—an inmate classification tool—should have been highlighted to alert corrections staff that Brian recently had been on suicide watch and should be monitored more diligently, but it was not. Brian was discharged to general population, where he had unfettered access to the jailhouse equivalent of a suicide toolkit: an unmonitored cell, no cellmate, a triple bunk, and bedsheets. He was dead less than 10 hours later.

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focused on decreasing tie-off points, including those on bunk beds—seem at odds with his words. However, the fact remains that although its rates are slightly below the national average, the Arapahoe County jail still has a 25 percent suicide rate over the past 10 years. The fact also remains that even though many of the jail’s cells had undergone that mitigation process by January 2018, Brian was not placed in one of them.

“After 40 years of studies about suicides in correctional facilities,” says Lindsay Hayes, former director of jail suicide prevention and liability reduction for the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), “no one should have the attitude that inmate suicides cannot be prevented.”

Hayes points out that in 1986, the NCIA reported that the suicide rate in county jails—107 deaths per 100,000 inmates— was approximately nine times greater than that of the unincarcerated population. Having that data, Hayes says, helped the Justice Department and the NCIA convince jail administrators across the country that a reduction was necessary—and possible.

After much work, which included spreading awareness of risk factors (history of mental illness and suicidal behavior) and high-risk periods (like the first 24 hours after booking and the hours immediately after receiving bad news in court or taking a distressing phone call), better training of employees, and revising screening methods, there was a noticeable shift in philosophy in the jail community. There was also a shift in the numbers. In 2010, the NCIA released a second study that showed inmate suicides at county jails had dropped to 38 deaths per 100,000 inmates, a threefold decrease.

But death by suicide still accounts for roughly a third of county jail fatalities in this country. This is an unfortunate fact that Hayes, who has worked in this arena since 1978, understands maybe better than anyone—and he believes there are myriad ways to continue shrinking that percentage. That is, if sheriffs and their staffs fully commit to that goal.

Suicide watch procedures, for example, would need to be more nuanced, ideally avoiding the tradition of taking away all comforts and privileges (so inmates will admit to suicidal thoughts) and including at least two observation levels and some kind of step-down practice. Privacy measures would have to be greatly expanded so inmates would feel comfortable being honest with medical staff, especially during mental health screenings during booking procedures. Jail administrators would need to vigorously monitor their for-profit

THE LONELIEST PLACE TO DIE contractors to make sure mental health professionals are well trained and that positions do not go unfilled, leaving remaining mental health employees overworked and potentially prone to mistakes.

Sheriffs—and county commissioners who execute multimillion-dollar deals with for-profit correctional health care companies—also would need to learn to ask about and spot unsound or outdated health care policies and procedures and amend contracts that are often lacking in specifics. According to Hayes, best practices, like allowing an inmate to go to court while remaining on suicide watch in case they receive bad news or checking in on an inmate who has recently been discharged from suicide watch more quickly than seven days, may not be part of these firms’ repertoires.

Civil rights attorney Ed Budge says it really should be incumbent upon counties to force these companies to be more forthright about what they’re delivering in exchange for none too few taxpayer dollars. “The public knows how much a county spends and the basic terms of a generic contract,” Budge says, “but these firms don’t have to explain their policies on nursing qualifications or procedures for helping patients with drug addiction or pregnancy or depression.”

That’s, of course, because those things fall under the umbrella of proprietary information, or information that a private company wants to—and can—keep secret.

A L M O S T T W O Y E A R S after Brian’s death, I met his dad and stepmom at a Starbucks off East Arapahoe Road. I hadn’t seen them since the memorial service, where more than 300 people showed up, inundating a chapel that had been set up for 140. Over lattes, we took turns telling—and chuckling at—old stories about Brian, but it was the newer stories I hadn’t heard that stuck with me. Brian’s October 2017 DUI, which had really been a suicide attempt, wasn’t the first time he’d tried to end his life. In fact, Brian had attempted suicide twice during the summer of 2017. All three times, a loved one had saved him in one way or another.

That was the difference with the fourth attempt, Dennis said: “There was no one in that jail who gave a damn.”

Dennis is haunted by the fact that he’ll never know what might’ve happened if Brian had been put back on suicide watch after returning from his advisement hearing. “If they could’ve kept him alive for 48 or 72 hours, gotten him some mental health treatment and antidepressants,” he said, “and let him see or talk to his kids… maybe things would’ve been different.”

Having said that, Dennis shook his head as if to rid it of those painful hypotheticals and then explained why he’d decided to file a civil suit in January 2019 against the Arapahoe County Sheriff, the Arapahoe County Board of County Commissioners, Correct Care Solutions (now Wellpath), and two Correct Care Solutions employees. “During my meeting with Vince Line, I asked a very simple question,” Dennis said. “I asked, ‘What have you learned from Brian’s death?’ and it was as if he didn’t understand the question.”

Dennis says Line’s palpable indifference led him to believe everything he then read about county jails contracting with for-profit health care firms was probably true: Suicide watch was an inconvenience they’d scuttle given the slightest defensible opportunity; mental health treatment from a psychiatrist was too expensive for the bottom line; and they’d wait as long as possible before dispensing costly prescription medications. “If we can get reforms made, I want to do that,” said Dennis, who hired Denver-based civil rights firm Holland, Holland Edwards & Grossman. “And I want a settlement for Brian’s kids.”

In April 2020, the Estate of Brian Heath Roundtree settled with the Arapahoe County Sheriff and the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County for $85,000, part of which went to attorneys’ fees. Arapahoe County made only one concession: to let Dennis and Brian’s son see the cell where Brian died.

The civil lawsuit against Correct Care Solutions, now part of Wellpath, and one of its employees (the other employee was dropped from the suit) is scheduled to go to trial this month—however, the COVID-19 pandemic almost certainly will stall dockets. Dennis says he will wait it out. He isn’t afraid to talk about his son’s demons in court because he believes he knows what happened; because he believes county governments need to stop abdicating their responsibilities by turning over humanitarian functions to businesses; and because he believes no matter what Brian had done, he didn’t deserve to leave this life in a jail cell, an environment Brian once described as the loneliest place in the world to die. m Lindsey B. King is 5280’s deputy editor.

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Evergreen | $407,000 3br/2ba duplex home. Living, dining and kitchen area all open w/south facing windows. Living area w/vaulted ceilings and gas fireplace. Bedrooms w/large windows and ceiling fans. Master suite w/5-piece bath. Complete w/a patio and open back views.

Denver | $405,000 2br/2ba rowhouse w/finished basement, high ceilings, wood floors, interior transom windows w/original trim, covered front porch & deck. Newly updated electrical box, newer furnace, alarm system, skylights, newer front yard landscaping & newer carpet.

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Aurora | $400,000 Welcome home to this 3br/4ba Light-Filled home w/Spacious Living Room, Lovely Fireplace, Nice-Sized Master Bedroom, Finished Basement, Many Updates, Awesome Sunroom, Covered Hot Tub and is in a Great Community that is in a Convenient Location.

Broomfield | $395,000 4br/3ba home offers 2,014 square feet w/an open eat-in kitchen, a 2-sided brick fireplace and newly remodeled bathrooms. Complete w/a finished basement, a 2-car garage, a low maintenance yard and a backyard patio that opens to greenbelt with a trail.

Melissa Foerster 720.827.4916 melissa.foerster@coloradohomes.com | MelissaFoerster.com

Stacy Carter 303.465.4681 stacy.carter@coloradohomes.com | StacyEaganCarter.com

Firestone | $375,000 3br/2ba ranch style home w/new plank flooring throughout the main living areas, hall and baths. Kitchen w/a new island, new pantry and Corian counters with a farm sink. Master suite w/updated private bath. Home sits on open space w/mountain views.

Evergreen | $350,000 2br/1ba cabin on a .55 acre lot. Living room w/wood burning stove fireplace insert. Open kitchen w/country cabinets and breakfast bar.

Master bedroom and full bath complete the main level. Complete w/walk-out lower level, private yard and shop area.

Christina Kern 303.915.0809 ckernsells@gmail.com | ChristinaSellsColorado.com

Kevin Freadhoff 303.803.6949 kevinsellshomes@yahoo.com | MountainHomeForYou.com

Aurora | $328,500 3br/2.5ba - kitchen w/ updated cabinets, marble counters & ss appliances, updated bathrooms, hardwood floors in the kitchen & tile baths, NEST, key-less entry, security system, fenced side yard w/new patio, new landscape, & 2-car garage.

Morrison | Price Upon Request Townhome includes a 2-car garage, fenced backyard, vaulted living room open to the kitchen & dining area & 1/2 bath.

2 bedrooms upstairs w/ private baths. Roof updated 2018.

Carol Dilk 812.989.1468 carol.dilk@coloradohomes.com | CarolDilk.cbintouch.com

Homes At New Heights 303.475.3096 ssharnas@msn.com | HomesAtNewHeights.com

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Lakewood | $319,000 Nicely updated 2br/2ba end unit moments from Bear Creek Greenbelt.

Open concept main floor w/wood burning fireplace. Kitchen w/cement countertops & newer appliances open to the dining and living areas.

Two master suites w/en suites & walk-in closets.

Englewood | $264,000 2br/2ba home w/an open floor plan, vaulted ceilings and laminate hardwoods. Kitchen hosts quartz countertops and painted cabinets.

Master bedroom w/ensuite bath, walk-in closet and private deck.

2nd bedroom w/private deck and walk-in closet.

Jennifer Leavitt 303.921.7723 jennifer.leavitt@coloradohomes.com

Tasha Carrington 303.618.4237 tasha.carrington@coloradohomes.com | TashaCarrington.com

Denver | $260,000 2br/2ba townhome w/real hardwood floors throughout most of the rooms. There is a formal dining space, open living room with a wood burning fireplace a wood burning fireplace. Complete w/a partially finished basement w/ endless possibilities.

Donna Jarock 303.718.6285 thanksdonna@gmail.com | HomesAndCondosColorado.com

Denver | Price Upon Request 1br/1ba condo w/an open floor plan and a wood burning fireplace.

There is Italian mosaic tiles and a 1 of a kind Victorian molding above the fireplace. Bedroom w/2 separate closets. Complete w/stack-able washer and dryer and central air conditioning.

Stephanie Fryncko 303.918.5917 stephanie.fryncko@coloradohomes.com

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Denver | $230,000 Fantastic, updated 2br/2ba unit in the Canyon Club Condos! Enjoy new luxury vinyl floors, updated bathrooms, new SS appliances, newer counters in the kitchen, and fresh interior paint! HomeCB. com/6495HappyCanyon.

Michael Surges 303.981.7872 Kathleen Surges 303.981.6170

Aurora | $205,000 2br/1ba condo in Meadow Hills offers Cherry Creek Schools, vaulted ceilings, trails & parks, master w/bath & walk-in closet, living space w/wood-burning fireplace, kitchen w/built-in appliances, stacked laundry & 2nd bedroom w/ French doors.

Michael Surges 303.981.7872 Kathleen Surges 303.981.6170

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Colorado Springs | $175,000 Updated 1br/1ba Condo w/Smart Home Features, New Live Edge Fireplace Mantle & Desk Nook w/Shelves, Upgraded Kitchen w/New Cabinets, Granite Counters, Sink & Tile Backsplash, BA w/New Vanity and Barndoor & Attic Space has Potential to be Finished.

Idaho Springs | Price Upon Request 4br/2ba Victorian home is larger than most comparable homes in the area w/over 1,800 square feet and a finished loft/attic.

Perched up high, yet in the center of town, you will enjoy birds-eye views of the town, the water wheel and clear creek.

Rob Thompson 719.337.7254 rob.thompson@coloradohomes.com | RobThompsonHomes.com

Sarah Scott-Wilson 303.250.5323 Sarah@InfinityProsRe.com | InfinityProSarah.com

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Denver | $1,375,000

Peyton | Price Upon Request

Boulder | $1,100,000

Custom, west-facing, 4-yo home with mountain views! Master retreat w/5-piece bath & private, heated deck. Walking distance to Washington Park & South Pearl Street shopping/dining.

Gorgeous 100-acre ranch w/2 fenced pastures, hay field, well, electricity, stock pond and views of Pikes Peak. Perfect place to build a farm house. Trails, shopping, schools nearby.

4br/3ba townhome w/7 half levels near downtown. Features a 2-level master w/ flatiron views, updated kitchen, baths, windows, doors, lighting, flooring, paint, heating & A/C!

Ron Buss 303.808.5390

Jamie Bradley 720.560.5430

Tom Fowler 303.956.2575

Aurora | $899,000

Aurora | $875,000

Centennial | Price Upon Request

5br/5ba w/views, kitchen w/island, slab granite & ss appliances, master w/deck, dual closets & 5pc bath, hardwood floors, plantation shutters, new roof & finished walk out basement.

Stunning 5br/5ba Updated Light-Filled Home w/Gourmet Chef’s Kitchen, Spa-Like Master Suite w/Private Deck, Finished Basement & Fenced-In Backyard w/Professional Landscape in Great Area.

Backs and sides to greenbelt, 4 bedrooms up, 3-car garage, finished walkout basement, updated kitchen with granite counters & custom cabinets, deck w/mtn views. Cherry Creek Schools!

Jessica Drummond 720.788.4599

Jessica Drummond 720.788.4599

Debbie Joseph 303.842.8331

Erie | $639,000

Highlands Ranch | $629,900

Superior | $620,000

Vista Ridge 3br/3ba home w/an open floor plan, 12' ceilings and lots of natural light! Master has dbl closets, 5-piece bath and bay window. Complete w/full basement and covered patio.

4br/3ba w/3-car garage, new hickory wood styled plank tile floors, custom wainscoting, new carpet, fresh paint, newer roof, kitchen w/slab granite counters & main level master suite.

4br/4ba w/finished basement. Updated kitchen w/maple cabinetry, quartz counters, glass tile backsplash & ss appliances.

Fresh exterior paint, new driveway & updated lighting in baths.

Kim Dunning 303.588.6037

Jennifer Hebert 303.929.9044

Caryn Geiger 303.441.2422

Cascade | $595,000

Denver | Price Upon Request

Westminster | Price Upon Request

35-acre mountain property, adjacent to Pike National Forest.

Sub-dividable with utilities and paved road access. Bring your horses and build your dream home!

4br/3ba brick home w/ kitchen w/ss appliances & quartz counters, remodeled baths, hardwood floors, fully finished basement, wraparound patio, triple pane windows & new roof & gutters.

3br/3ba w/golf course & mountain views, wrap around deck, newly installed artificial turf, updated kitchen & baths, refinished hardwood floors & new interior paint, roof & driveway.

Camellia Coray 719.359.0014

John Drew 303.386.2276

Lori Grunewald 303.521.5750

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Denver | $550,000

Morrison | $549,000

Highlands Ranch | $545,000

3br/2ba home w/hardwood floors as well as a new kitchen and baths. Master suite w/vaulted ceilings and 2-walk in closets.

Complete w/a detached 2-car garage and private backyard.

3br/2.5ba w/wood floors, great rm, dining area, kitchen w/granite & ss appliances, master bath w/ granite & designer tile & unfinished basement w/radon mitigation & upgraded furnace/AC.

4br/3ba w/finished basement, open concept floor plan, great room, dining room, kitchen w/granite countertops, upgraded cabinets & ss appliances, hardwood floors & upstairs laundry.

P.J. Farrell 303.884.5368

Debbie Joseph 303.842.8331

Angie Overlie and Dawn Tillson 303.598.1551

Superior | $544,000

Parker | $530,000

Highlands Ranch | $529,000

3br/4ba home w/an open floor plan. Large library/office loft w/custom built-ins. Finished basement is perfect for a 4th bedroom or flex area. Complete w/a large, private backyard.

Completely updated 4br/4ba home w/formal and informal living spaces. Kitchen w/new appliances. Master suite w/5-piece bath and walk-in closet. Finished basement and new, oversized deck.

Immaculate 4br/2.5ba Remodeled Home w/Vaulted Ceilings, Updated Kitchen, Spa-Like Master Suite, Finished Basement & Maintained Backyard w/Oversized Deck in a Peaceful Neighborhood.

Terra Brewer 720.745.9962 Deidra Laurel 720.840.2212

Jennifer Zurzolo 720.315.5497

Kimberly Ryan 303.523.8333

Brighton | $525,000

Wheat Ridge | $515,000

Fort Collins | $510,000

3br/3ba w/3-car garage, open floorplan, kitchen w/granite counters & extended center island, dining room, master w/5pc bath, full basement w/finished bonus room & covered patio.

Brick ranch with a full basement. Close to downtown Wheat Ridge, downtown Arvada, downtown Denver, 30 minutes to DIA and an hour away from Frisco! Make this house your home today!

Beautiful 3br/3ba located on Robert Benson Lake with unobstructed views of Horsetooth & Longs Peak. Light & airy floorplan, hardwood floors, large master suite & full walkout basement.

Joe Blinn 720.498.1365

Sandi Simpson 720.273.4625

Brie Fowler 303.882.8672

Commerce City | $509,000

Aurora | $500,000

Aurora | $460,000

Mountain Views! 4br/2ba home w/ finished basement, $20K in upgrades & kitchen w/granite counters, Mastercraft cabinets, custom backsplash, pendant lighting, wainscoting & nook

4br/4ba home w/hardwood floors, living room w/a fireplace, eat-in kitchen and formal dining room. Upper level has master bedroom w/5-piece bath! Complete w/finished basement. SOLD!

Ranch-style patio home in Heritage Eagle Bend. 3br/3ba with vaulted ceilings, two fireplaces, finished basement, attached 2-car garage, covered porch/patio, and backs to greenbelt.

Sean and Janet Willcox 303.903.5255

Joe Blinn 720.498.1365

Kylie Rupert (303) 842.8205

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Aurora | $460,000

Aurora | $460,000

Highlands Ranch | $459,899

5br/3ba ranch, kitchen w/quartz, newer ss appliances, storage, family rm w/fireplace, master w/ 5pc bath, laundry w/new W/D, home theater w/big flat screen, Pella windows & more.

3br/3ba home. Living room w/a fireplace. Kitchen w/breakfast nook and stainless steel appliances. Master suite w/walk-in closet and master bath. Complete w/unfinished basement and yard.

SOLD! 4br/2.5ba home with open living/dining rooms. Kitchen w/stainless steel appliances & pantry. Upper level holds all 4 bedrooms. Complete w/basement, fenced yard, and 2-car garage.

Bill Rapp 303.358.7070

Danielle Martini 720.630.5500

Illona Gerlock 303.809.1235

Denver | $440,000

Denver | $430,000

Denver | $429,900

3br/2ba home w/2,059 sqft. Kitchen w/stainless steel appliances and granite tops. Private outdoor entertaining space w/a covered patio, a garden area, a shed and a 2-car detached garage.

Remodeled 3br/2ba w/stainless kitchen, granite counters, living area, master suite w/bath, two additional bedrooms, & tons of closet space. Large backyard with patio & privacy fence.

Incredible South Park Hill 2br/2ba featuring original hardwoods, master w/walk in closet & Elfa shelving system, private yard, garage, quartz countertops, ss appliances & custom tile.Â

Lori Vialpando 303.324.5731

Paula Upton 303.999.6663

Staci Stroh 303.570.7039

Denver | $420,000

Highlands Ranch | $419,900

Denver | $419,900

House with Motorcycle shop -- gated parking for trucks/trailers, zoned special industrial I-MX-3. Hot area off South Broadway, perfect for business use today plus future development!

3br/4ba w/finished basement, hardwood floors & gas fireplace.

Owned solar panel system, whole house fan, radon mitig system, new AC, carpet & paint, 6 panel doors & ss appliances.

2br/1ba East Highland bungalow offers a recently updated kitchen & bath w/ granite counters & tumbled marble backsplash, fresh paint, Bali blinds & newly refinished hardwood floors.

Wyeth Jackson 720.299.1390

Sarah Schepman 720.308.3295

Eric Oblander 303.886.7070

Broomfield | $415,000

Castle Rock | $415,000

Greeley | $412,000

3br/3ba features mountain views, vaulted ceilings, expansive windows, upgraded baths & a 3-sided fireplace. The gourmet kitchen offers double ovens, a gas cooktop & subway tile.

Spacious and bright 4 bed 3.5 bath 2,643 SF home in Founders Village. Vaulted ceilings. Updated kitchen. Master suite w/walk-in closet. Finished walk-out basement. Fresh carpet and paint.

4br/4ba stucco home backs to a green belt, finished basement, main floor master w/5pc bath, laundry, new carpet & paint, kitchen w/ slab granite, 42" cabinets & sunroom w/heated floor.

Jeanette Johnston-Starc 303.520.9425

Colorado Homes Denver Team 720.360.7050

Steven Tozer 970.692.4835

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Longmont | $406,900

Centennial | $400,000

Centennial | $400,000

4br/2ba home w/2 living areas and a fireplace in the family room.

Kitchen w/a pantry, new cabinets and countertops. Complete w/a basement, a backyard and a flagstone patio.

3br/2.5ba bath home w/an open-concept floor plan. Kitchen w/stainless steel appliances and walk-in pantry. Family room w/a gas fireplace. Complete w/a basement and a large backyard.

Features new paint, new LVP floors, new carpet, new blinds, updated kitchen w/ new ss appliances, family room w/ fireplace, A/C, nest doorbell & thermostat & smart garage door opener.

Kristina Flynn 303.748.9787

Kimberly Ryan 303.523.8333

The Rowley Group 303.717.5613

Littleton | Price Upon Request

Boulder | $395,000

Aurora | $394,900

WANT TO UPGRADE? I SOLD this home in 2 days! The market is in your favor if you are looking to move into bigger, nicer home! Call HEATHER for questions about process!!

RARE 1br/1ba offers den w/privacy pocket door & bay window, spacious floor plan, underground parking space, bedroom w/walk-in closet, deck & storage. Clubhouse has a pool & 2 hot tubs.

Stunning 4br/2ba Brick Ranch Home is Completely Renovated & Move-In Ready w/Lots of Space, Remodeled Kitchen & Private Covered Patio in Fully Fenced Backyard in a Great Location.

Heather O'Leary 719.439.9789

Tom Fowler 303.956.2575

Sarah Yang 720.384.5646

Denver | $385,000

Denver | $385,000

Thornton | Price Upon Request

Charming 2br/1ba Move-In Ready Ranch w/Open Floorplan, Abundant Natural Light, Beautifully Refinished Hardwood Floors, Gorgeous Kitchen, Wonderful Outdoor Space & in Great Location.

3br/2ba home w/newer hardwood floors. Fireplace surrounded by built-in bookcase. Kitchen w/newer cabinets and appliances.

Master bedroom w/2 closets. Complete w/private backyard.

3br/2ba- 2-car garage home w/sprinkler system, deck, utility shed, water feature, living room & stylish kitchen w/breakfast nook. The lower level features a family room w/fireplace.

Nita Kolarsick 303.250.8280

Angie Overlie and Dawn Tillson 303.598.1551

LaDawn Sperling 303.710.5817

Broomfield | $379,900

Arvada | $375,000

Thornton | $375,000

4br/2ba ranch style home w/granite counter tops, oak cabinets and stainless steel appliances. Complete w/a newer furnace and water heater, an attached 1-car garage and a backyard.

3br/1ba Ranch Style home w/hardwood floors. Enjoy easy living with no stairs in this home. Complete w/private backyard including a covered patio and privacy fence.

Inviting floorplan in this lovely 3 bedroom, 3 bath home.

Remodeled kitchen, updates throughout. Walk to park & pool.

Come and take a peek!

Maria Kinzie 720.588.3310

Joyce Davis 720.495.2786

Team Fontyn 303.359.9937

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Longmont | $375,000

Denver | $375,000

Englewood | $370,000

4br/2ba home on a large corner lot across from Centennial park.

Enjoy mountain views from your backyard! Complete with front yard landscaping and a side yard for your RV/Camper .

2br/2ba corner unit w/open floor plan. Master suite w/a walk-in closet. Private 150 square foot balcony. This unit is complete w/1 deeded, off-street parking space.

4br/3ba townhome w/an open concept main floor. Kitchen w/ample counter space and pantry. Master bedroom w/dual closets and private bath. Complete w/a beautifully maintained backyard.

Eric Feenstra 303.931.1127

Amanda Snitker 303.204.8240

Kurtz Krew 720.421.4580

Johnstown | $370,000

Denver | $360,000

Central City | $350,000

Stunning 4br/3ba, four-level home with three car garage. Large back yard with extended patio, perfect for entertaining. Park located around the corner and easy access to 1-25.

Beautiful 1br/1ba Renovated Condo w/Open Floor Plan, Updated Kitchen, Breakfast Bar, Walk-In Pantry, Double Closets in the Bedroom & Large Covered Deck in Great Community w/Amenities.

Stunning views on 19 plus acres in Central City! This fantastic location overlooks the Central City Courthouse and Teller House with long valley views to Ameristar Tower.

Janie Larson 720.937.2676

Nita Kolarsick 303.250.8280

Wyeth Jackson 720.299.1390

Bailey | $340,000

Boulder | $338,000

Greeley | $337,000

3br/1ba mountain chalet w/easy access to Highway 285 for a great price. Updated kitchen & bath, vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, partially finished walk-out basement &large deck.

Pendleton Square 2br/2ba condo w/open floor plan, fireplace, in-unit washer & dryer. Kitchen w/updated appliances. Each bathroom has been partially updated. Complete w/private patio.

3br/3ba on a corner lot w/gorgeous landscaping. Cozy layout offers 2 doors to the backyard, a formal living room and a kitchen that flows beautifully. Master w/bath & dual closets.

Vicki Wimberly 303.674.6667

Brad Pickels 720.839.1673

Lindsey Sampier-Baker 970.214.9715

Denver | $325,000

Parker | $320,000

Denver | Price Upon Request

Corner 1br/1ba condo offers floor to ceiling sliding glass doors that open to the patio & bamboo flooring. The building boasts secure entry, resident doorman, deeded parking & pool.

Beautiful townhome features 2 BRs, 2 BRs, a vaulted great room w/fireplace, dining area, updated kitchen, remodeled bathroom, finished basement, a/c & 1 car garage.

SOLD! Updated kitchen, freshly painted cabinetry, stainless appliances & breakfast nook, W/D, water softener included, deck, hot tub, shed, sprinkler system, 2-car garage & tile roof.

Elise Denbow 303.917.8988

The Rowley Group 303.717.5613

Jessica Martinez 303.229.9621

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Colorado Springs | $299,500

Lakewood | Price Upon Request

Colorado Springs | $289,500

3br/2ba home w/open concept living. Kitchen w/quartz countertops and hardwood floors. Master bedroom w/vaulted ceiling, walk-in closet and private bath. Complete w/unfinished basement.

4br/2ba- 1,652sqft home w/finished basement, living room w/fireplace, kitchen w/ss appliances, master w/dual closets & recently redone bath, patio, reserved parking, AC & newer windows.

3br/2.5ba home w/new faux-wood floors & paint. Master suite w/walk-in closet & private bath. Fenced-in backyard w/trex deck & 2-car garage. New roof & furnace. Newer a/c & dishwasher.

Jennifer Zurzolo 720.315.5497

LaDawn Sperling 303.710.5817

Jennifer Zurzolo 720.315.5497

Littleton | Price Upon Request

Commerce City | $281,900

Commerce City | Price Upon Request

1br/1.5ba condo w/cherry floors. Kitchen w/new stainless steel appliances. Living room w/gas fireplace,wood shutters & balcony.

Bedroom w/a chandelier, walk-in closet and en-suite bath.

2br/2.5ba home w/all new paint, carpet and floors. Master bedroom w/walk-in closet and vaulted ceilings. Conclude w/an attached 2-car garage. Close to DIA and open space.

2br/3ba home w/new flooring. Family room and kitchen w/a breakfast nook. Master bedroom w/walk-in closet and en-suite bath. Complete w/covered front porch and private patio.

Kimberly Ryan 303.523.8333

Robert Niswander 303.345.5294

Dave Maynard 720.570.6340

Northglenn | $250,000

Aurora | $249,900

Denver | $245,500

2 bedroom townhouse with fenced front & back yards and no HOA. Upper level w/both bedrooms and full bath. Unfinished basement. Backs to EB Rains Jr. Memorial Park. Welcome Home!

2br/3ba w/2 masters, main floor gutted/remodeled, new cabinets, granite counters, hardwood flooring, ss appliances & fenced patio. Newer roof, A/C, furnace, hot water heater & ring.

2br/2ba townhome. Kitchen w/a storage pantry and newer stainless steel appliances, opens to a living area and dining room.

Master bedroom w/walk-in closet. Complete w/attached garage.

Dan Gerlock 303.755.7373

Norma Adair 720.291.3300

Amanda Snitker 303.204.8240

Denver | $225,000

Denver | $210,000

Colorado Springs | $187,500

Welcome to this fantastic, centrally located 2 BR Condo. A top floor unit with an open floor plan, plenty of natural light and vaulted ceilings. Great location with low HOA fees.

2br/1ba ground floor corner unit condo, kitchen w/newer ss appliances & updated countertops, living room w/fireplace. New carpet, covered parking & backs to the greenbelt.

3br/2ba townhome w/ finished basement, living & dining room, kitchen w/new cabinet hardware & ss Whirlpool appliances, and AC. Private backyard w/patio, storage shed & 2-car carport.

Nita Kolarsick 303.250.8280

Tori Campbell 970.209.7745

Jennifer Montoya, MBA 719.232.3397

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BACKSTORY Books Of Secrets

When students reopen school books this month, any number of mysterious items from last year’s class could fall out: a secret love note, a hidden crib sheet, a misplaced retainer. But chances are none will be as intriguing as the ephemera found

by Colorado booksellers while flipping through vintage volumes—some with backstories just as gripping as any great work of literature.

—LILY CAPSTICK

RETURN TO SENDER David Satin of Hooked On Books in Colorado Springs was shocked when a pristine WWII Romanian Army medal tumbled out of a book. He wasn’t nearly as surprised, however, as the descendants of the honoree were when Satin tracked them down to return the heirloom, which they didn’t know was missing.

CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN

DATED DEFENSE

FORBIDDEN SCRIBBLES

RICH HISTORY

In the 1970s, scaling 19,341-foot Mt. Kilimanjaro earned you a crisp certificate of completion, one of which fluttered out of a book and into the hands of Linda Dillie, former owner of the Bookworm in Boulder. We at least know who it didn’t belong to: No Coloradan would misplace such bragging rights.

Storing contraceptives in foil hasn’t always been in vogue.

Denver’s Printed Page Bookshop co-owner Dan Danbom discovered as much when he found two envelopes designed to hold 12 loose condoms each. The antique script and artwork on the packaging helped him date it to the 1930s.

WWII service personnel were discouraged from journaling; in enemy hands, their musings could reveal valuable intelligence.

Not everyone complied, as Danbom learned when he found an American combat pilot’s diary detailing flights in Morocco, Italy, Austria, and Germany between 1943 and 1944.

The oil market wasn’t the only thing John D. Rockefeller wanted to control. Wedged inside a biography of the tycoon, Allen Dillie, co-owner of the Bookworm, discovered detailed correspondence between the author and Rockefeller, who had some suggestions for improving the text of a previous draft.

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I L L U S T R AT I O N BY A D R I A N A B E L L E T

AUGUST 2020

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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for blood continues for childbirth, cancer treatments, essential medical procedures and everyday emergencies.

Schedule your blood donation appointment today online at vitalant.org or call 877-25-VITAL. Appointments recommended, walk-ins welcome.

Incredibly different times call for incredibly different care.

Kids need a hospital just for them, especially now.

And that means finding ways to adapt. So we’ve made changes to everything from our visitation policy to our ventilation system, to make our hospitals safer than ever.

But we’re still the same Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Because kids are still kids. And they can’t wait for the incredibly different care they need.

For more information and parent resources, visit childrenscolorado.org.

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