Rural Health Initiative:
Trinidad Community-Based Health Care Solutions

The Trinidad Community-Based Health Care Solutions is a community-based collaborative comprised of local health care providers, community members, and community leaders focused on promoting better access and use of health care resources and stabilizing and improving health care infrastructure.

Funded by The Colorado Health Foundation and initiated by the Community Resource Center (CRC) and the Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC) the project aims to build strong community partnerships in Trinidad around health care.

The Rural Health Initiative is working with the local hospitals, governing boards, clinics, providers, and most importantly, community members to develop local leadership that can allow the community to better access and utilize health care resources available to them, thus stabilizing and improving their health care infrastructure. The goals of this work are the following:

• To establish broad unity of purpose among key stakeholders to promote a stable health care delivery system in Trinidad and Las Animas County and Leadville and Lake County;
  
  
• To form leadership groups that will be able to develop and implement a strategy for a stable health care delivery system in these communities; and
  
  
• To link these leadership groups with the appropriate human and financial resources necessary to develop stable health care delivery system.

Over the past year and a half, citizens of Las Animas County have regularly come together to identify and generate additional resources to both increase and improve health services, and have ultimately decided to create a countywide Health Service Special District.

Las Animas County Community Health Assessment RFP

On behalf of the residents of the Health Services Project of Las Animas County, the Community Resource Center has issued an RFP for a Community Health Assessment of Las Animas County.

Click here for the RFP. Deadline is submittal is October 29, 2007.

There was a pre-proposal conference call held on October 2, 2007 with Gabriel Guillaume. Questions and Answers from this call are posted here.

Learn more about the project and its history.

Click here for the Ambulance District report and demographics.