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. UC Denver is also building a new Health and Wellness Center to be complete in 2012.
- 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 hospital announced in June 2010 a $400 million expansion on the campus that will add 1,000 new jobs. The hospital also is planning a $20 million expansion of the University of Colorado Cancer Center. In 2011, the hospital was named the top-performing academic hospital in the country.
- Children’s Hospital Colorado - Located on 48 acres, the new $458 million state-of-the-art hospital, with 1.4 million square feet, opened in 2007. Children's launched a $228 million expansion that will add 124 new beds. Upon projected completion by the end of 2012, the addition is expected to bring at least 500 new jobs to the hospital's workforce of 4,000. Separately, Children's is developing a $6.4 million child-care center that it will share with other occupants of the Aurora campus.
- U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs Hospital – The country’s newest $1.1 billion veteran’s hospital broke ground in August 2009 and will open at the Anschutz Medical Campus in 2014.
Nationally recognized healthcare facilities
America's Best Hospitals 2011 by U.S. News and World Report:
- National Jewish Health - Named the nation's top respiratory hospital for the 13th straight year and 15th in pediatric respiratory disorders.
- Craig Hospital - Englewood: seventh in rehabilitation for the 21st consecutive year.
- The University of Colorado Hospital - Aurora: 8th in pulmonary care, 15th in kidney disorders, 19th in rheumatology, and 44th in cancer care.
- The Children’s Hospital - Aurora: 4th in diabetes and endocrinology, and 5th in gastroenterology and pulmonology.
New facility construction
- Centura Health completed a $23.6 million, 40,000-square-foot medical office building and a 20,000-square-foot emergency room and imaging center in Castle Rock in 2011.
- The new HealthONE Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children completed all phases of construction on the Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center campus in 2011.
- Parker Adventist Hospital opened a $76 million expansion and renovation project in 2011, bringing 100 new jobs to the hospital.
- St. Anthony’s Central Hospital opened a new $500 million, seven-story hospital with 300 beds at a 45-acre site in Lakewood’s Federal Center.
- 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 completed 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.