Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been named one of the nation’s 50 top hospitals – the only hospital in Colorado to receive the award from Healthgrades. It’s the sixth year for the award, which is based on clinical performance during a seven year period. It places Penrose in the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide, [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Health Partners opened a new sports medicine clinic earlier this week at its specialty center at 1633 Medical Center Point on the northwest corner of Union and Fillmore. The clinic is designed to help treat and prevent injuries related to sports and exercise for athletes 10 and older throughout the Pikes Peak regions. [...]
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Kaiser Permanente will give $3 million to the Colorado Legacy Foundation to improve school students’ health. The groups involved in the venture also include the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Coalition for Healthy Schools. The new school healthy policy and practice data collection program will create the needed infrastructure to measure, track and [...]
Continue reading …Memorial Hospital will create a hospice inpatient care unit at its central location, thanks to a partnership with Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care. The partnership was approved by the University of Colorado Health Board of Directors and will create a licensed unit for hospice patients operated by the local nonprofit hospice organization. The partnership [...]
Continue reading …Memorial Hospital has hired two local surgeons from its competitor, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services. Thoracic surgeon Matthew Blum and cardiothoracic surgeon Martin Beggs are leaving Penrose to join Memorial this spring. They will partner with cardiothoracic surgeon Bryan Mahan, who has worked at Memorial since 1999. Blum is one of four general thoracic surgeons in [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs’ new health foundation might take years to get off the ground, but it could create a legacy of health and wellness programs unparalleled in the state. But it won’t be breaking new ground if it can follow in the footsteps of the state’s multi-billion-dollar health foundation. The Colorado Health Foundation was formed in [...]
Continue reading …Peak View Behavioral Health will begin treating adolescent patients in a hospital setting starting Jan. 21. The hospital will offer both inpatient and outpatient programs for children ages 12 to 17, and the hospital now has 20 acute beds for inpatient stays and full-day treatment on an outpatient basis. “We know there are adolescents in [...]
Continue reading …A five-day trial pitting Colorado Springs against the Public Employees Retirement Association will start Oct. 28. At risk is $185 million from the lease proceeds of Memorial Hospital to University of Colorado Health. The money could be used to jump start a new foundation that will distribute grant money once it is up and running [...]
Continue reading …Americans – even those with health insurance – are sicker than counterparts in other high-income countries, according to findings from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. And the news gets worse. The health disadvantage exists at all ages, from birth to 75, and even health insurance, college education, higher incomes don’t change the [...]
Continue reading …64-room assisted-living and memory center under construction on north end
January 7, 2013 Comments OffA $13 million assisted living and memory care center is under construction at 5355 Centennial Blvd. in northern Colorado Springs. MorningStar at Mountain Shadows will include 45 assisted living suites and 19 individual care suites for Alzheimer’s patients. The development of the 3.2 acre project is a joint venture between Denver-based MorningStar Senior Living and Millennium Venture Group, which [...]
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