About Denver Health

About Denver Health

Denver Health is Colorado's primary “safety net” institution. In the last 10 years, this compassionate organization provided more than $2.1 billion in care for the uninsured. Nearly $285 million of that care was provided last year, constituting 42 percent of all unsponsored care provided in metropolitan Denver and nearly 30 percent in the state.

Twenty-five percent of all Denver residents, or 160,000 individuals, receive their health care at Denver Health. One of every three children in Denver is cared for by Denver Health physicians.

Denver Health is a comprehensive, integrated organization with multiple components including:

· 477-bed main hospital at Eighth Avenue and Bannock Street that houses the Rocky Mountain Regional Level 1 Trauma Center, the only academic level 1 trauma center in the area;

· 911 medical response system for the City and County of Denver;

· Denver Public Health Department;

· 8-clinic network of Family Health Centers throughout the city;

· 12-clinic network of school-based health centers in Denver public schools;

· Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center

· NurseLine, a telephone advice line that offers assistance to patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week;

· Denver CARES, a safe setting for public inebriates with community detoxification services;

· Correctional Care; and

· Denver Health Medical Plan, Inc.

Denver Health also houses the Denver Health Paramedic School; the Rocky Mountain Center for Medical Response to Terrorism, Mass Casualties and Epidemics; the Rita Bass Trauma & EMS Education Institute; the Colorado Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical and Explosive (BNICE) Training Center, a statewide initiative to educate Colorado's health care and public safety work force on the principles of preparing for, and responding to, a weapons of mass destruction event; and clinical training programs for medical residents and allied health professional in many different specialties.

Our Mission

Denver Health is an integrated, efficient, high-quality health care system serving as a model for other safety net institutions across the nation.

Our mission is to:

· Provide access to the highest quality health care, whether for prevention, or acute and chronic diseases regardless of ability to pay;

· Provide life-saving emergency medicine and trauma services to Denver and the Rocky Mountain region;

· Fulfill public health functions as dictated by the Denver Charter and the needs of the citizens of Denver;

· Provide health education for patients;

· Participate in the education of the next generation of health care professionals; and

· Engage in research, which enhances our ability to meet the health care needs of Denver Health system patients.