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In light of the recent flooding, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is actively monitoring the effects of flooding on the health and safety of residents/patients/clients. If your facility has been impacted by flooding, is in a potential evacuation area or has been asked to evacuate due to flood danger, please complete the attached form and send it to us . We are particularly interested in situations where transportation may be necessary to transfer people to a safe place or where appropriate alternative housing has not been found. The Department may be contacted as follows: Email: Health.Facilities@state.co.us (Please put Flood/Evacuation Information in the subject line.) Fax: 303-753-6214, (Please put Flood/Evacuation Information in the subject line.) Phone: 303-692-2836 Sincerely, Randy Kuykendall Interim Division Director, Health Facilities & Emergency Medical Services Division

In light of the continuing fires and threats of fires, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is asking Facility/Agency Personnel to notify the Health Facilities and EMS Division if your agency/ facility is located in a pre-evacuation or mandatory evacuation zone or if you are voluntarily evacuating your residents/patients. The form has been posted to our webiste. You can view it here. Please complete the form as soon as you are able and submit it to the Department by: Email: health.facilities@state.co.us , please put "WILD FIRE EVACUATION INFO" in the subject line. Fax: 303-753-6214, please send to the attention of "WILD FIRE EVACUATION INFO". If you have questions please call 303-692-2836.

Recent legislation authorized the formation of two new task forces charged with examining the care, coordination and data repositories for stroke and STEMI patients in Colorado. Qualified applicants, as defined in the legislation, are being recruited from across the state. Please consider applying to participate on one of these task forces and please share the Act and application with any qualified individual who may be interested in the work to be done by these task forces. You can view the Act by clicking here and view the application by clicking here. For questions, please contact Margaret Mohan at margaret.mohan@state.co.us or 303-692-2901.