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  • Keller brother duo joins Haxtun Health team in orthopedics

    Sara Huss, Haxtun Health|May 30, 2024

    Orthopedics is a branch of medicine that focuses on the care of the skeletal system and its interconnecting parts. It ranges from bones, muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and nerves. Orthopedists use both surgical and nonsurgical approaches to treat musculoskeletal issues, such as sports injuries, arthritis, ligament injuries, occupational injuries, sprains, joint pain and more. Haxtun Health has a strong orthopedic surgical network and connects patients to the right surgeon for their...

  • Lineup of specialty services offered at Haxtun Health

    Sara Huss, Haxtun Health|Apr 11, 2024

    Skip the long, expensive trips to the front range. Many of the services you are looking for are offered locally at Haxtun Health where you are more than just a chart. Behavioral Health Alongside Haxtun Health, our Behavioral Health Counselor, Rachael Fryrear, LPC, is dedicated to supporting mental and emotional well-being. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, addiction or other mental health concerns, we’re here to listen and guide you toward healing. Fryrear’s appointments won’t be hitting the patient’s pocket books throughout 2024. We believ...

  • Looking at effects of ADHD in adulthood

    Sara Huss, Haxtun Health|Mar 28, 2024

    Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder isn’t just a childhood issue—it persists into adulthood, affecting millions worldwide. Let’s delve deeper into this complex condition and explore its impact on adults. Together, we will look at treatments and tools to encourage productivity. The science behind ADHD ADHD involves structural and functional differences in the brain. Neurotransmitters like dopamine play a crucial role in attention regulation. Another contributor is your genetics. ADHD tends to run in families. There are also envir...

  • Haxtun Health announces participation in Colorado ALTO Project with aim of reducing opioid administration in ED

    Sara Huss, Haxtun Health|Feb 8, 2024

    Haxtun Health has joined the Colorado ALTO (alternative to opioids) Project to reduce the administration of opioids in the hospital’s emergency department. Haxtun Health’s goal is to improve pain management for its patients and return them to a maximum quality of life while also recognizing and controlling the inherent risks of prescribing highly addictive medications like opioids. Haxtun Health’s clinicians are dedicated to understanding and responding appropriately to their patients’ physical and emotional symptoms of pain in addition to taki...

  • Reminder offered to Medicaid recipients

    Sara Huss, HH Mktg. & Comm. Coordinator|Jan 25, 2024

    Medicaid recipients to ensure they receive the comprehensive care and services they need to improve their health. Colorado’s Medicaid program is called Health First Colorado. In 2022, 57 percent of all Colorado adults aged 19 to 64 were covered by Health First Colorado. In 2023, eligibility thresholds were changed due to the official end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Automatic renewals have also stopped. This means fewer Coloradans will be eligible for Health First Colorado. It also means that members are now required to fill out p...

  • Breast Cancer Awareness - signs, screenings and survival

    Sara Huss, Haxtun Health|Oct 19, 2022

    Breast Cancer Awareness Month was launched in 1985 by American Cancer Society partnering with the pharmaceutical division of Imperial Chemical Industries. Betty Ford played an important role in the first initial week-long event. She was diagnosed with breast cancer herself while her husband Gerald Ford was President of the United States bringing more attention to the cause. Breast Cancer has affected, many if not all, in one way or another. Most have all felt it’s impact in their family or circle of friends. One in eight women in the United S...

  • Haxtun Health updates long overdue infrastructure

    Sara Huss, Marketing Team Specialist|Mar 30, 2022

    Immune systems, heart and lung functions, joints and ligaments, are typical parts of the human body that the medical team at Haxtun Health works on daily. The inner workings of the body all need to function well for one to feel good and to perform at optimal levels The team at Haxtun Health believes these same concepts are valid for the facility in which we provide care. "The equipment on the roof, the ductwork, pipes, valves above the ceiling and the back of house boiler room all play a crucial...