Memorial facilitated the most tissue donations of any state hospital last year, earning recognition from the Colorado Hospital Association and Donor Alliance. Donor Alliance COO Jennifer Prinz and CHA President Steven Summer presented the award last week in Vail. The award was created to recognize the commitment of Colorado hospitals, medical centers and health care [...]
Continue reading …St. Francis Medical Center, part of Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, is one of 10 hospitals to be recognized by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for implementing best practices stop support breastfeeding. Last year, the department recognized 13 hospitals, and there are now 33 hospitals, more than half of all Colorado birthing hospitals, [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs’ new partner with Memorial Health System was just named the highest-performing academic hospital in the United States by the University HealthSystem Consortium. It marks the second year that UCH has been honored with the award. The quality leadership award is given annually by the 116-member alliance of the nation’s nonprofit academic medical centers [...]
Continue reading …Health insurance plans will soon have more benefits — coverage for pediatric dental and vision care, mental health care and rehabilitative services.
Continue reading …Society of Physician Entrepreneurs and Medical Voyce Magazine will merge into a single industry publication. Society of Physician Entrepreneuers is owned by Arlen Meyers and Dirk Hobbs owns Medical Voyce. The new magazine, which will maintain the SoPE title, will be released in October, with an emphasis on biomedical and health care innovation and physician [...]
Continue reading …The City of Colorado Springs and the Public Employees Retirement Association have agreed to drop both lawsuits in the ongoing legal battle about Memorial Health System exiting the PERA retirement benefits program. The city will re-file its suit, which claims it doesn’t owe any money to PERA, in Denver District Court. In the city’s view, [...]
Continue reading …Update: The city and PERA have reached an agreement to remove UCH from the lawsuit, to drop both suits and to allow the city to refile its case in Denver District Court. Read more here. The Public Employees’ Retirement Association has filed a lawsuit of its own in an ongoing legal battle with the city [...]
Continue reading …It’s time for round two in the legal battle between the city of Colorado Springs and the Public Employees Retirement Association. The city filed a suit two weeks ago, asserting that it doesn’t owe PERA for additional retirement benefits for employees of Memorial Health System once the University of Colorado Health takes over the hospital. [...]
Continue reading …Organizers are celebrating the overwhelming voter support to lease Memorial Health System to the University of Colorado Health, ending years of uncertainty and debate.
Continue reading …An overwhelming majority of voters – 83 percent – said yes to the University of Colorado Health, ending more than two years of debate about the future of Memorial Health System. The vote means that UCH will take over daily operations of Memorial on Oct. 1. But the plans for the transition have been underway [...]
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