On Edge

Whistleblowers say Mind Springs falsified patient records at West Slope mental health center for nearly a decade
A troubled Western Slope mental health care center falsified assessments of its patients’ conditions for...

Three state agencies auditing the troubled mental health center for 10 Western Slope counties
Three state agencies have launched a joint audit of Mind Springs Health, sending state investigators...

Investigation: This mental health provider is failing 10 Colorado counties
In a state where the mental health safety net is plagued by a lack of...

Colorado has half a billion dollars to fix its mental health system. But first it needs workers.
The workforce shortage means therapists at the centers are overburdened with patients, that people wait...

Investigation: Colorado’s mental health safety net marked by lack of competition, oversight and transparency
An investigation into Colorado's community mental health centers found a system that lacks competition, oversight...

On Edge: These two nurses make sure the sick, the homeless — and each other — are cared for
“We’ve become comrades in arms. This would have been so, so much harder without Laurel...

On Edge: Veteran paramedic grapples with post-COVID toll on his lungs and his sense of self
Even now, nearly three months after COVID invaded his body, Jason McGinnis cannot stop asking...

On Edge: Politics, “doom scrolling” are toxic mix for this news junkie
Zayatz was overcome with a kind of disillusionment known as “moral injury.” It is a...

On Edge: Breckenridge businessman searches for balance in the midst of chaos
Time gave Dick Carleton no more preparation for 2020 than it had given anyone else....

On Edge: With family missing in Ethiopia’s civil war, Denver woman says her “mind is the hardest place to be”
For Millete Birhanemaskel the anxieties of 2020 became magnitudes greater on Nov. 3. On that...