House Bill 22-1221 requires the state’s Behavioral Health Administration to create County Coroner and Mortuary Mental Health and Wellness Program.
DENVER — Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on everyone, county coroners and funeral directors included.
But soon, Romann will retire and for the past few years she’s started noticing that everywhere she looks around her community, there are bad memories like the park where a man took his own life or the house where a child died or the railroad tracks where a collision with a train killed someone. For decades in the profession, Romann says it was taboo to talk about mental health. Instead, there was a common phrase among death investigators of “We get it,” where colleagues would acknowledge the trauma and then move on.
It also requires funeral homes and businesses in the field to pay for the mental health and wellness services of their employees if health insurance does not cover those services. Fields believe it should be incumbent on all government agencies and businesses to provide an environment that makes employees feel safe and where their well-being is protected and she sees this bill as a part of that conversation.Ian Harwick, an administrator with Denver's Office of the Medical Examiner, spoke about trying to receive mental health services only to be told by his insurance company that trauma-related specialists are not covered by his plan.
“I had a friend reach out yesterday who is a corner and mortician and at the end of the day he’s a small business owner and he said this state is just getting too expensive to run a business in and this will just add it to his bottom line,” said Rep. Rod Pelton, R-Cheyenne, during the committee hearing.
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