Some surveys and studies have indicated that Colorado Springs is one of the healthiest places around. This isn’t one of them.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report today with county-by-county health rankings listing the healthiest and least healthy counties in Colorado.
El Paso County ranked 29th in the state when it comes to health outcomes.
Colorado’s 10 healthiest counties, starting with most healthy, are Douglas, Eagle, Boulder, Pitkin, Broomfield, Elbert, Routt, Larimer, Gunnison and Summit.
The 10 counties in the poorest health, starting with least healthy, are Huerfano, Fremont, Las Animas, Otero, Montezuma, Bent, Pueblo, Alamosa, Prowers and Denver.
El Paso County was in the middle of the heap.
The healthiest of Colorado’s 64 counties are clustered in the northern, central and southern regions; the least healthy counties are sprinkled primarily in the northwestern and southeastern regions of the state. Eight Colorado counties were not ranked.
We will dig into the criteria and methodology, and let you know more details about the report.











For readers of this post, I have some news of a personal sort. Today is my last day at The Gazette. Monday, I begin work at Memorial Health System as its senior public relations specialist.

