Children’s Hospital opens new location in Parker

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

To expand accessible care to families in the Parker community, Children’s Hospital Colorado opened a pediatric urgent care center.

Having been in the emergency department at Parker Adventist Hospital a few years ago, Dr. Erin Harvey, assistant professor of pediatrics and director of urgent care at Children’s Hospital Colorado said they are excited to have their own freestanding urgent care in the community.

Parker Urgent Care includes Children’s Hospital Colorado doctors, nurses, sta and board certi ed ofcials who are trained in pediatric care. Doctors will communicate directly with the child’s primary care provider, keep families informed of all diagnoses, treatments and tests in order to keep the medical record up-to-date and accurate.

“[Pediatricians] learned the speci c mechanisms of pediatric injury and how they’re di erent from adults and how medications a ect kids di erently,” said Harvey. “With our nurses and assistants are also pediatric trained and know how to deal with children at di erent developmental levels and provide a comforting and nurturing environment.”

Families can expect the care provided at Parker Urgent Care to be the same as the care received at the Anschutz location.

“Pediatricians, who are sta ng our sites, do three extra years of training to speci cally be able to take care of kids,” said Harvey. e new facility includes outpatient care during the week, which can be made by appointment.

According to the website, the facility o er’s specialty care clinics available through referral from the child’s primary care physician.

Conditions treated at the new location include but are not limited to mild allergic reactions and asthma attacks, minor broken bones and sprains, coughs, cold and congestion, fever in patients over 60 days neys, the money will come from the district’s insurance policies, so no money will be diverted from students.

Wise told Colorado Community Media the settlement is vindicating for him, adding that he hopes it will deter politicization and discrimi-

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County pays for helicopter to fight wildfires

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BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As wild re risk continues to cause concern in Colorado, Douglas County approved spending on aerial wild re- ghting resources, including helicopter use.

Outlining why the county needs the helicopter resource, a county sta memorandum noted “increasing annual re occurrence coupled with warmer and drier than average climate forecasts for 2023.”

Douglas County’s commissioners at their April 11 meeting voted to approve $1.1 million for this year’s helicopter use contract, lasting from June 1 to Oct. 31 to cover what are historically the months of highest re frequency and severity in the county, according to the memo.

“We know the biggest natural hazard threat to Douglas County is a wild re,” Commissioner Abe Laydon said in a news release.

Helicopter use goes back years e county started contracting for helicopter use for wild re suppression in 2011, according to Mike Alexander, the deputy director of emergency management for the Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce.

At that point, county o cials contracted for helicopter use on a “call when needed” basis.

“In March 2011, we utilized our CWN contract with Rampart Helicopter to suppress the Burning Tree re near Franktown, to great success,” Alexander said.