UCHealth

The UCHealth system was founded in 2012 with the merger of the University of Colorado Hospital and the Poudre Valley Health System.[5] 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.[6][7] It was recreated in 1991 as the University of Colorado Hospital Authority as a government agency.[8] 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).[4]

In August 2012, voters in Colorado Springs approved a special election measure to allow UCHealth to lease and operate Memorial Hospital.[9]

In September 2016, UCHealth Broomfield Hospital opened. Located in Broomfield, Colorado, the hospital has 18 inpatient rooms and a 4-bed intensive care unit.[10][11] [12]

In February 2017, the system retitled itself as UCHealth.[13] In addition to a refurbished website and logo, it added an app for patients.[13]

In August 2017, a new 51-bed hospital opened in Longmont, Colorado in Boulder County called UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital.[14] [15]

In June 2019, the system opened a new hospital in Douglas County called UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital.[16] [17] [18] [19]

In July 2019, the system opened a new hospital in Weld County called UCHealth Greeley Hospital.[20] [21]

In January 2023, Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo joined the UCHealth network.[22]

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.[23] 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.[24][25][26]

In 2018, the hospital achieved Level 1 Trauma Center Status.[27] Also that year, the hospital received a Comprehensive Stroke Center designation.[28]

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.[29]

In August 2021, Forbes named UCHealth as the No. 1 employer in Colorado.[30]

• UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
• UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital
• UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies
• UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central
• UCHealth Memorial Hospital North
• UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center
• UCHealth Broomfield Hospital
• UCHealth Grandview Hospital
• UCHealth Greeley Hospital
• UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital
• UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital
• UCHealth Pikes Peak Regional Hospital

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