Mesa County Physicians Working Together to Improve End-of-Life Care
David West, MD • VP of Medical Affairs
(970) 255-7271 • DWest@HopeWestCO.org
Over the past 120 years health care – both public health and personal health – has made incredible advances. Life expectancy has gone from 45 years to nearly 85 years. Maternal deaths due to obstetrical complications, infant mortality and diseases such as polio, rheumatic fever, smallpox, meningitis and diphtheria have been reduced or eliminated due to our high quality medical care. Americans now live much longer and are much healthier.