these was layoffs. During this economic downturn nearly 48,000 workers were laid off. Frontier airlines went bankrupt in 1986 and shut down. 3,500 workers were laid off. Other companies that laid off workers and closed include Lowry Air Base, Fitzsimons Army Hospital, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, and the Rocky Flats nuclear weapon plant. Real estate prices were over speculated. Another factor was construction. With high immigration into the state, construction companies started over building. Instead
Reed hospital’s outpatient world known as building 18. The conditions were bad, floors rotted through, stained carpet, mouse droppings, cheap mattresses and the smell of cheap takeout in the air. This is how our veterans lived. They received premier medical treatment, saving their lives. So they could get lost in the paperwork. The outpatient process was lacking to say the least. These soldiers came from a war zone to a chaotic scene where soldiers with traumatic brain injuries and PTSD were supposed
gait training (Dillingham, T. R. (2002). Advancement in modern military medical care prevented many deaths during the Vietnam War. From 1966 to 1970 at Da Nang Naval Hospital, 87% of the thousands of soldiers treated there recovered and returned to service (Dillingham, T. R. (2002). Statistics like this support the success a physical therapist and well-rounded medical team can have in even the most doubtful situations. At Fitzsimons General Hospital, over 500 amputees received care (some with more than