UCHealthUniversity of Colorado Hospital

World-class care in the Denver Metro Area• U.S. News & World Report ranks University of Colorado Hospital as the #1 hospital in Colorado.

• Ranked nationally in 11 adult specialties by U.S. News & World Report.

• Ranked as the 6th highest-performing academic hospital in the United States for delivering quality health care according to University HealthSystem Consortium.

• Launched the Center for Personalized Medicine and Biomedical Informatics in April 2014 with CU School of Medicine, CU Denver, Children’s Hospital Colorado and University Physicians, Inc.

• Hosts the region’s only National Cancer Institute-designed Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of just 45 in the nation.

• Home to one of just three Joint Commission-certified Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Centers in Colorado.

• Received four consecutive Magnet designations for nursing excellence.

• Home to the only adult burn center in the region verified by the American Burn Association.

• Only hospital in the region that performs heart and lung transplants and performed the first-ever double-lung and liver transplant in Colorado in 2015.

Ranked #1 in ColoradoUniversity of Colorado Hospital is the Rocky Mountain region’s leading academic medical center and is best known as one of the first hospitals to bring new medicine to the patients’ bedside.

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Vital statistics fiscal year 2015Available hospital beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Outpatient visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .899,360

Inpatient admissions and observation visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,351

Emergency department visits . . . . . . 100,891

Total surgeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,052

Babies delivered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,635

Organ transplants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292

Employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,012

Contribution to the local economyCommunity benefits contribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $203 million

Uncompensated/charity care cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 76.3 million

Total Colorado economic impact of UCHealth hospitals and clinic operations . . . . . . . . . . $4.6 billion*

*Economic contributions of University of Colorado Health, September 2014. George F. Rhodes, PhD, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Colorado State University, and Consulting Economist

Most advanced specialty care close to homeUniversity of Colorado Hospital is committed to making care more accessible to the community.

• University of Colorado Hospital opened its Lone Tree Breast Center, which joined the Lone Tree Surgery Center and Lone Tree Health Center in anchoring University of Colorado Hospital’s services in the southern metro-Denver area.

• The UCHealth Eye Center reopened in 2015 and is one of the largest eye centers in the nation. Located on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the academic-based eye center offers highly specialized care for patients.

• In a clinical trial pilot with UCHealth’s Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Hospital launched the state’s first-ever Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit, one of just three such programs and vehicles in the United States. This advanced vehicle is like an emergency department on wheels, allowing stroke diagnosis and administration of blood clot-busting medications while en route to the hospital, rather than waiting until after the patient arrives.

Building community connectionsUniversity of Colorado Hospital is committed to strengthening the communities it serves and improving lives. Some examples of our efforts include:

• University of Colorado Hospital is one of five organizations working with the Metro Community Provider Network, a nonprofit organization that provides health care and education services to the under-insured, to implement a new model of care aimed to help frequent emergency department and hospital users find a medical home.

• University of Colorado Hospital and the Center for Women’s Health Research’s “Let’s Talk” community education quarterly lecture series hones in on health education for women. More than 1,000 women from the Denver Metro Area attended the seminars in 2015.

Moving care forwardHighlighting a commitment to advancing personalized medicine, UCHealth, the CU School of Medicine, CU Denver, Children’s Hospital Colorado and University Physicians, Inc., launched the Center for Personalized Medicine and Biomedical Informatics in April 2014. The new center is backed by a five-year investment of approximately $80 million from all partners, including $41 million from UCHealth.

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Academic medicine and research• University of Colorado

Hospital is the primary adult teaching hospital for the University of Colorado professional schools.

• The University of Colorado medical research enterprise surrounding University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus attracted $420 million in research funding in 2015.*

*Preliminary estimate from CU Office of Grants and Contracts; pending final report