Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News
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Peer support specialists are themselves in recovery and are employed to help others.
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DENVER — In March, Claire Tripeny was watching her dream job fall apart. She’d been working as an intensive care nurse at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, and loved it, despite the mediocre pay typical for the region. But when COVID-19 hit, that calculation changed.