A Colorado program introduces students from diverse backgrounds to the medical field. It’s more important than ever.

Bringing more Spanish speakers into Colorado hospital rooms has only become more critical in the past 19 months as the pandemic has disproportionately affected the state’s population of more than 1.25 million Latino residents and highlighted the “stark inequities faced by the Latino, Spanish-speaking community,” said Lilia Cervantes, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.