World-class healthcare facilities to serve the Rocky Mountain West.
Metro Denver serves as the regional medical center of the Rocky Mountain West. The area is home to major hospitals and research centers providing care in virtually every major healthcare specialty, including emergency/trauma, respiratory, pediatrics, orthopedics/rehabilitation, cancer, neurology, and cardiology. This high demand for healthcare services has resulted in the expansion and construction of several new facilities throughout the region.
Fitzsimons Life Science District
The former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora is undergoing redevelopment into the 578-acre Fitzsimons Life Science District, the nation’s largest scientific and medical-related redevelopment project. Fitzsimons includes the 170-acre Colorado Science + Technology Park. Modeled after three successful research parks on the east coast, the Park provides opportunities, equipment, facilities, and resources for early-stage and startup research-oriented biotechnology, drug, and medical device development. Established companies can utilize the full-range of resources to operate and grow.
Adjacent to Fitzsimons is the 227-acre Anschutz Medical Campus, which offers administrative and teaching functions, as well as clinical and research programs. The Anschutz Medical Campus is one of the nation’s top academic medical centers and is the heart of an active complex of laboratories, clinics, hospitals, classrooms, and offices. New facilities at the campus include:
- University of Colorado Denver - The initial phase of the the University of Colorado Denver's $1.4 billion move to the Anschutz Medical Campus, including relocation of all teaching, clinical, and research programs, completed in 2007. The University of Colorado Denver is one of the nation’s top academic medical centers.
- University of Colorado Hospital – The University of Colorado Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver, opened its new $644 million, 820,000-square-foot facility at the Anschutz Medical Campus in 2007.
- The Children’s Hospital - Located on 48 acres, the new $458 million state-of-the-art hospital, with 1.4 million square feet, opened in 2007.
- Veteran’s Administration Hospital – The country’s newest veteran’s hospital will open at the campus in 2011.
Nationally recognized healthcare facilities
America's Best Hospitals 2008 by U.S. News and World Report:
- National Jewish Health - Named the nation's top respiratory hospital for the 10th straight year.
- Children’s Hospital - Ranked seventh overall among children's hospitals and ranked especially high in treating respiratory and digestive disorders.
- Craig Hospital - Ranked sixth among hospitals specializing in rehabilitation.
- University of Colorado Hospital - Cited for excellence in seven of 16 medical specialties, with three specialties ranked in the top 20.
New facility construction
- Plans proceed with the new HealthONE Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. It will comprise 100,000 square feet of new space on the Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center campus to include a separate main entrance with two-story lobby, a dedicated pediatric registration center, pediatric-specialty operating rooms, a pediatric gastrointestinal suite, a post-anesthesia care unit, diagnostic imaging, a dedicated pediatric emergency department, and a family resource center. The $113 million project will also include new physician office space. The medical office building and surgery center are targeted for opening in Fall 2008, with a 2009 estimated completion date for the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.
- St. Anthony’s Central Hospital will construct a $500 million, seven-story hospital with 300 beds at a 45-acre site in Lakewood’s Federal Center. The hospital will open in late 2009.
- The new $138 million, 287,301-square-foot Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton opened in July 2007.
- Exempla Lutheran Medical Center Southwest, a new 20,000 square-foot outpatient center, opened in Littleton in October 2007.
- Work is under way on Englewood-based Swedish Medical Center’s $84 million project to upgrade four floors and construct two new units, convert all beds to private patient rooms, and expand the neonatal intensive-care unit. Work will complete in 2011.
- The Medical Center of Aurora is preparing a new $80 million, 140,000-square-foot tower to include dedicated space for a cardiovascular center of excellence, an expanded ICU, private patient rooms, and additional upgrades.
- Sky Ridge Medical Center is expanding its operating rooms.
- Rose Medical Center completed construction of a new founder’s building with medical offices and an ambulatory surgical center, and is expanding its emergency department.
- Littleton Adventist Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette have expansions planned or underway.