Dr. 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.