🌱 How new opioid settlement dollars could change care access west of Grand Junction

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• How new opioid settlement dollars could change care access west of Grand Junction

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📰 News we're reading

• New opioid settlement dollars awarded across Western Slope (gjsentinel.com) — Fruita residents are part of a Mesa County region receiving roughly $500,000 in new opioid settlement infrastructure funding, aimed at expanding scarce behavioral health services beyond Grand Junction. While providers are still concentrated in the city, officials note only a few outliers in Fruita and Palisade, and no providers in Orchard Mesa, underscoring how these dollars could improve access for western valley communities.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Grand Junction

• Get a coffee, help an animal: Human Bean to donate profits to animal shelter Monday (kjct8.com)
• New roundabout construction in Redlands to begin Monday (gjsentinel.com)
• Grand Junction man accused of sexually assaulting child, held on $500k bond (kjct8.com)

Clifton

• E Road Phase 3 project advances toward construction (mesacounty.us)

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