The National Board of Chiropractic Examiners' (NBCE) Horace C. Elliott Center was honored by the City of Greeley (Colo.) as a recipient of the 8th annual City of Greeley Excellence in Community Design Award. The Greeley Planning Commission established this award in 2004 to recognize local building projects on an annual basis.
These building projects demonstrate outstanding construction, design and execution. Some of the criteria include:
Contribution to city design objectives
Quality of the environment
Innovation
Context of the project
Quality of construction materials
Interpretation of the design into the final project
(Left to Right) Larry Steel, Steel & Associates; Sue Elliott; John Betz, NBCE Facility Coordinator; Pamela Kurtz, NBCE Director of Administration
Awards are presented to architects, builders, landscape designers and others who have achieved excellence in a local project. The winners are selected by a seven-member panel of judges from the Greeley community.
The award ceremony was conducted at the City of Greeley's Sept. 6 City Council Meeting with Pamela Kurtz, NBCE Director of Administration, accepting the award on behalf of the NBCE.
The chiropractic profession is under a sophisticated and relentless assault from corporate medicine, so strategically executed that most don’t even recognize it happening. The campaign is powerful, calculated, and well-funded, demonstrated by its covert tactics and the millions being invested to carry it out. Corporate medicine's endgame wants only two things from chiropractic: all our patients and all our money – and it is getting it.
Over the past two decades, more than 18 million spinal surgeries have been performed in the United States, and cervical disc replacements represent a fair share of those. Device recalls due to design flaws can place patients in difficult clinical situations, especially those who are symptomatic and reluctant to undergo revision surgery. This case highlights the role of chiropractors in managing complex postsurgical patients, particularly those with recalled spinal implants.
UnitedHealth Group, parent company of UnitedHealthcare, has announced sweeping changes to its prior-authorization (PA) requirements that will eliminate the requirement for chiropractic care and numerous other healthcare services by the end of 2026. Doctors of chiropractic, other providers and patients have long lamented prior authorization requirements because they can delay needed treatment, limit access and even cause some patients not to pursue care.
