Sarah Horton Publishes on Latinx Immigrants' Access to Care in Colorado

Published: March 19, 2025 By

Sarah Horton from CU Denver CLAS, Anthropology, stands against a brick wallDr. Sarah Horton from the CU Denver Department of Anthropology, published an article in Social Science Medicine examining how public hospital staff in a “new immigrant destination” in Colorado’s mountain resort area conceptualized recent Latinx arrivals as a “threat” to the hospital's finances and image, implementing spatializing strategies to keep them far from its main campus and ER.

As mergers and acquisitions have created seven nonprofit hospital “mega-systems” in Colorado over the past decade, even smaller public hospitals have adopted "financialized" strategies that prioritize investments over equity.