CSBJ Daily

Gov. Bill Ritter’s administration has begun implementing recommendations from the Government Efficiency and Management Performance Review.
The $750,000 study is expected to pay for itself many times over, thanks to savings that will be realized from hundreds of “common sense suggestions” that came from state employees. Among them:

Provide the Department of Health Care Policy and Financings […]

The City of Colorado Springs has opened its first Ethanol 85 fuel pump.
The pump will provide fuel for 93 city and utilities flex-fuel vehicles, which can run on unleaded gasoline or a gasoline and ethanol combination.
Since corn is the primary material for ethanol, E85 is expected to reduce dependency on petroleum and emit fewer carbon […]

Penrose Health Center will open its 22,000 square-foot vascular center tomorrow.
The center is a joint venture between the Vascular Center of Colorado and the Penrose-St. Francis Heart Institute.
It will provide for elective and emergent invasive cardiac needs, including angiography and emergency stent placement, ablations and the entire pacing spectrum, ranging from single-chamber pacing to bi-ventricular […]

Memorial Health System and Penrose Health Center received an award for organ donation excellence from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Medal of Honor is given to hospitals that have been able to sustain a donation rate of 75 percent or more for at least a year and have had at least eight potential […]