The Rocky Mountain MS Center’s rural engagement program reaches five counties in Colorado. Just this summer, the program expanded into Wyoming.
WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The mountains have plenty to offer, but they don’t have everything. Lindsay Rice knows this firsthand.
“It was all new to me, being diagnosed with a disease such as [multiple sclerosis],” Rice said. “I live in a small town of Salida, Colorado, and there is care there, good care, but it’s nothing like what is available in Denver and other large cities.”
Rice was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2021. While she was unsure of how to navigate living with the new disease. Luckily, in that same year, the Rocky Mountain MS Center established its rural engagement program that has community forums and educational opportunities.
“In the beginning, I didn’t know anything and I didn’t know where to turn,” Rice said. “I feel like as soon as I connected with the Rocky Mountain MS …