Denver Health’s school based health clinics (SBHC) offer a helping hand to Denver Public School (DPS) students and their families with no cost, convenient health care.

Denver Health operates 17 school based health centers located on DPS campuses throughout the city where students can receive health care at no cost to them or their families. Health care services provided by the SBHC are available to all 92,000 students in the Denver Public School system, whether or not there is a clinic on the campus where they attend school.

Dr. Debbie Rinehart, an associate research scientist at Denver Health’s Center for Health Systems research, has been awarded a PCORI Pipeline Award to create a patient advisory committee to ensure patient perspectives and needs are built into future research projects.

PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that focuses on improving patient care throughout the United States. Annual Pipeline Awards recognize researchers who study ways to improve relationships between patients, care givers and researchers. 

Denver Health and Kaiser Permanente have launched Colorado Patient Partners in Research (CoPPiR) - a unique program that connects patients with ongoing research studies. This first of its kind program allows patients to become contributing members of research teams on a variety of health topics. 

After an extensive national search, Denver Health is pleased to announce that Dr. Edward P. Havranek has been selected as our new Director of Medicine, effective immediately.

Dr. Havranek has been with Denver Health since 1991, first as the director of the cardiac catheterization lab and then as Acting Chief of Cardiology from 1994-1998.  In his tenure at Denver Health, he has chaired various committees, served as a Medical Staff officer and has been the Director of Health Services Research since 2010. He has been the interim Director of Medicine since September 2015. 

Dr. Kathy Wells, a pediatrician at Denver Health and the medical director for the Family Crisis Center, was named to Governor Hickenlooper’s Task Force on the Collection and Security of Digital Images of Child Abuse or Neglect earlier this month. 

Denver Health Medical Center and the University of Colorado School of Medicine announced today that Mitchell Jay Cohen, MD, will join the hospital as the Director of Surgery and the School of Medicine as a professor in the Department of Surgery.

The Denver School-Based Health Center (SBHC) Program—sponsored by Denver Health—was recently awarded $1.26 million to support comprehensive and integrated health services for the 2016-2017 school year from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE).

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