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Not-for-profit health care system from Colorado From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UCHealth | |
Company type | Health care system |
Industry | Healthcare industry |
Founded | 2012Aurora, Colorado, United States | in
Headquarters | 12401 E. 17th Avenue, , |
Areas served | Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska |
Key people |
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Number of employees | more than 25,000 |
Website | uchealth.org |
University of Colorado Health,[2] doing business as UCHealth, is a not-for-profit health care system, headquartered in Aurora, Colorado, United States. The system includes hospitals and facilities throughout Colorado, along with affiliated hospitals in Wyoming[3] and Nebraska.[4] The system includes an academic medical center, UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, which is closely affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine. It is a joint operating company between the University of Colorado Hospital Authority (a state government agency) and Poudre Valley Health.[5]
The UCHealth system was founded in 2012 with the merger of the University of Colorado Hospital and the Poudre Valley Health System.[6] The University of Colorado University Hospital was originally created on October 1, 1989, as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to an act of the Colorado General Assembly, but the act was declared unconstitutional by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1990.[7][8] It was recreated in 1991 as the University of Colorado Hospital Authority as a government agency.[9] University of Colorado Health was formed on January 31, 2012 (doing business as UCHealth since 2014), as a joint operating company between the authority and Poudre Valley Health (of Poudre Valley Hospital).[5]
In August 2012, voters in Colorado Springs approved a special election measure to allow UCHealth to lease and operate Memorial Hospital.[10]
In September 2016, UCHealth Broomfield Hospital opened. Located in Broomfield, Colorado, the hospital has 18 inpatient rooms and a 4-bed intensive care unit.[11][12] [13]
In February 2017, the system retitled itself as UCHealth.[14] In addition to a refurbished website and logo, it added an app for patients.[14]
In August 2017, a new 51-bed hospital opened in Longmont, Colorado in Boulder County called UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital.[15] [16]
In June 2019, the system opened a new hospital in Douglas County called UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital.[17] [18] [19] [20]
In July 2019, the system opened a new hospital in Weld County called UCHealth Greeley Hospital.[21] [22]
On December 1 2023, Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo and Parkview Pueblo West Hospital in Pueblo West merged with UCHealth.[23][24]
UCHealth has been ranked as a top hospital in the United States on several occasions. In 2012, it was listed as a Thomson Reuters Top 100 Hospital.[25] Between 2017 and 2021, UCHealth hospitals have been included numerous times on a list of America's Top Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.[26][27][28]
In 2018, the hospital achieved Level 1 Trauma Center Status.[29] Also that year, the hospital received a Comprehensive Stroke Center designation.[30]
In 2021, UCHealth was named the first-place winner in Healthcare Innovation's Innovator Awards program for 2021 for expanded their Virtual Health Center concept to facilitate a sepsis early-warning system with the goal of improving patient outcomes.[31]
In August 2021, Forbes named UCHealth as the No. 1 employer in Colorado.[32]
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