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 2007 by U.S. News and World Report:
- National Jewish Medical & Research Center - Named the nation's top respiratory hospital for the 10th straight year.
- Children’s Hospital - Ranked fourth among hospitals specializing in children’s care, with outstanding programs in heart and liver transplants and eating 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, ranked seventh for repiratory treatment
New facility construction
- 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.
- Littleton Adventist Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette have expansions planned or underway.