Dale Terasaki, MD, an internal medicine physician and addiction medicine specialist at Denver Health, has received a five-year Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study whether ketamine therapy added on to other support can help hospitalized patients with severe alcohol use disorder begin their recovery after discharge.

How Denver Health Patients Can Spot and Avoid the "Medicare Kit" Scam

Denver Health is warning patients about a nationwide phishing scam that uses the MyChart name and logo to trick people into clicking dangerous links and handing over personal or financial information. 

The fraudulent emails and text messages do not come from Denver Health or from Epic, the company that makes MyChart.

Health systems across the country have reported the same scam. 

Denver Health has earned silver-level recognition from the American Medical Association (AMA) as a Joy in Medicine organization.

Nearly 14 million U.S. adults, or 1 in 19, used at least one psychedelic or hallucinogenic substance in 2025. That’s according to the latest National Survey Investigating Hallucinogenic Trends (NSIHT) report from Denver Health’s Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety (RMPDS), which tracks who is using psychedelics, why and what happens afterward. NSIHT is the largest study of its kind in the U.S.

A chance teaching moment on a slow day in Boulder became a story a Denver doctor’s family is still telling, and forever grateful for, decades later.

Mariah Bellinger, MD, was an emergency medical technician student rotating through the emergency department at the Boulder Community Health hospital in 2004 when she learned a lifesaving lesson. Cardiologist Matthew Holland, MD, invited Bellinger to follow him into the cardiac catheterization lab, where he began teaching her about heart disease and the warning signs that can signal a serious blockage.

We currently have supplies of 2026-2027 flu vaccine and recommend that everyone aged 6 months and older get the flu shot. Make an appointment by calling 303-602-3520 or schedule a vaccine-only appointment via MyChart. If you have Medicaid or private insurance, the flu vaccine has no co-pay. If you lack health insurance, we offer no- and low-cost flu vaccine.

We will start COVID-19 vaccines for adults on Oct. 14, with youth vaccines avaiable in late October.

Denver Health has once again earned the Hospital Breastfeeding Excellence Award. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) gave the award to Denver Health at the 2026 Colorado Hospital Lactation Collaborative Annual Workshop on Sept. 16, 2026.