Patients are asked to use the campus lab in Pavilion L (Outpatient Medical Center)

In an effort to better align staffing needs to patient laboratory use, while minimizing any patient care interruptions, Denver Health's Laboratory Services will be moving its operations from Pavilion G as of Jan. 2, 2023, to Pavilion L in the Outpatient Medical Center.

Three-year-old Jade Green is a bundle of energy, typical of most toddlers her age. But if you spend five minutes with her, you'll think you're talking with a girl twice her age. Jade's curiosity for learning, asking questions, articulate manners and vast vocabulary can all be traced back to the care she is receiving as part of the Infant Mental Health program at Denver Health.

Little things can mean the world to patients in the Access Transformative Outreach Program (ATOP) at Denver Health.

A pair of reading glasses. A USB flash drive. A phone call.

The pilot program helps Colorado Access members with severe substance use disorders who have been to withdrawal management (detox) or an emergency department more than 18 times in the past six months. The program aims to improve a patient’s quality of life through services offered and by reducing drug and alcohol use and the dependence on emergency departments and detox programs.

Denver Health’s Security Operations Center in Pavilion J will become the 24/7 home for dispatchers in 2023, helping to reduce security officers’ response times to incidents on the main campus.

The SOC, pronounced “sock,” is the security team’s new communications hub, which allows dispatch to communicate with officers in the field and with local law enforcement while monitoring scenes in real time.

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month and the focus this year is on managing diabetes by building your health care team. It is possible to reverse prediabetes and prevent type 2 diabetes through screenings.

Denver Health’s chief medical officer, Dr. Connie Savor Price, delivered a keynote speech at the Colorado State of Reform Health Policy Conference on Wednesday in downtown Denver, explaining how the hospital rapidly expanded telehealth services and collaborated with other medical centers after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Only Hospital in Denver with Prestigious Accreditation for Adolescent AND Adult Bariatric Surgery

Denver Health's Bariatric Surgery Center is pleased to now offer weight loss surgery options to adolescents in addition to the already existing program for adults.

It’s the last week of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Denver Health would like to highlight the excellent care that a patient diagnosed with breast cancer would receive.

Initial steps after detection

If the breast imaging team at Denver Health detects cancer after a mammography, the patient is then referred to a multidisciplinary team who will determine next steps.