Springs hospitals miss A grade for patient safety
No Colorado Springs hospital earned an A in patient safety, according to the latest information from the Leapfrog Group, an independent, national nonprofit group of employer purchasers of health care. Penrose-St. Francis earned a B for both its campuses, and Memorial Hospital earned a C, according to the grades assigned – based on infections, injuries, [...]
University of Colorado Health is pouring millions into Memorial Hospital — capital projects, new hires, new technology. It’s a necessary expense, leaders say, because they have plans for the local hospital system to become the southern flagship as UCH pushes into New Mexico and Kansas. That’s good news for Colorado Springs as the money poured [...]
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 …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 …University of Colorado Health has now extended its reach from Southern Colorado to Laramie, Wyoming. The hospital group, which includes Memorial Hospital in the Springs, will now manage Ivinson Hospital in Laramie. Under the agreement, Ivinson, which traces its roots to 1917, will become an affiliate of UCHealth but will remain an independent [...]
Continue reading …In a significant sign that it is under new management, Memorial Hospital has hired 14 cardiologists, a breast surgeon and 75 other staff members just two months after joining University of Colorado Health. All told, Memorial’s physician network has grown by 40 percent in three months. The growth has included the acquisition of Pikes Peak [...]
Continue reading …Memorial Hospital’s outpatient surgery department and other services at its Printer’s Park Medical Plaza location will be closed for the remainder of the week following the discovery of a water quality issue there Monday. This closure affects hundreds of patients and dozens of employees, and Memorial recognizes this might be inconvenient. The decision, however, is [...]
Continue reading …Memorial’s loss of income during July and August hasn’t deterred interest from for-profit hospital HealthOne. The group’s representative here in the Springs, Kevin Walker, said HealthOne is waiting on the final Request for Proposals from the city. “They’re still interested,” he said. “We’re all just waiting for the details of the RFP. Depending on what [...]
Continue reading …If we allow common sense rather than rhetoric to govern our decisions, Memorial Hospital should remain a municipal entity, with the minimal governance it has endured for years. It’s not simply that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” or that conservatives like the status-quo, or that the older we get we fear change, but [...]
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