Valley View Hospital's Charity Care Is Declining, Despite Tax Break

In January of 2018, a woman we’ll call Kika went to Valley View Hospital’s emergency room in Glenwood Springs.

She had a sharp pain in her stomach and blood in her stool.

We’re not using Kika’s real name because she’s undocumented. 

Her colon was swollen and bleeding. The doctors at Valley View thought she might have colon cancer. It turns out she didn’t; she did spend four days in the hospital, which she’ll spend five and a half years paying off.

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