• Kyle Leggott, Leah Willis, Joseph Saseen, Alexis Burakoff, Douglas Fish, Linda Oberst-Walsh, Kurt Cook, and John Fred Thomas.
• From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (KL, LO-W, KC); ECHO Colorado Program Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (LW, JFT); Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Aurora (JS, DF); Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver (AB); Denver Health and Hospital Authority Division of Family Medicine, Denver, CO (KC); University of Colorado School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Aurora (JFT).
• J Am Board Fam Med. 2021 May 1; 34 (3): 481-488.

AbstractAs was experienced across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic reached Colorado in early spring 2020. Yet, unlike many of the early hotspots in other states, the initial cases in Colorado surfaced in rural areas. It was evident early on it would be a public health crisis unlike anything Colorado had ever faced. There was an urgent need for rapid dissemination of up-to-date information and practice support provided by a multidisciplinary task force of academic health center and state public health experts working collaboratively to meet these needs. This article provides a roadmap for the development of a similar model, a community-connected Extension for Community Health Outcomes (ECHO) program based at an academic medical center and its ability to facilitate the service rapidly and scale to need.© Copyright 2021 by the American Board of Family Medicine.

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