Penrose-St. Francis Health Services recently earned an award for its support of its National Guard and Reserve employees. The Pro Patria award is given to companies for “exceptional leadership, support and personal devotion.” The hospital will receive the award at the 2012 Colorado Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves award banquet May 4. “Colorado [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services will sell the former Penrose Community Hospital at 3205 N. Academy Blvd. to Peak Vista Community Health Centers. Peak Vista received a $1.5 million discount on the fair market value of the building, as part of a capital donation from Penrose. “The addition of this new property allows us a wonderful [...] [...]
The Colorado Springs City Council released thousands of pages of documents from the remaining four groups bidding to run Memorial Health System for the next 40 years. The four bids from Memorial, Centura, Exempla and University of Colorado that were released today propose a nonprofit system, but their approaches vary. Memorial and Centura want the [...] [...]
Both hospitals in Colorado Springs have been accredited by a national organization for breast care. Penrose-St. Francis Health Services and Memorial Health System received full, three-year accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, a program administered by the American College of Surgeons. This is Memorial’s first year to be recognized for the program, [...] [...]
Congressional District 5, which includes all of El Paso County, has 13 hospitals and a direct revenue of $1.1 billion. That’s according to a new report from the Colorado Hospital Association, which examined the total economic impact of the state’s hospitals. The association is trying to stem health care cuts in Congress. The total output [...] [...]
HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings organization, named Penrose-St. Francis Health Services among the top 10 percent in the nation for its cardiac care, orthopedics, neurosciences, pulmonary care, vascular and gastrointestinal medical treatments. The nation’s 5,000 hospitals were included in the study, which examined mortality rates and complication rates form government data from 2008, 2009, [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health System received a three-star rating for heart bypass surgery from Consumer Reports magazine. The ranking puts it above the national average. The cardiothoracic surgery division is the only group in southern Colorado to achieve the distinction, which is highlighted in the September edition of the magazine. It was one of only 81 [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services was certified as an advanced primary stroke center by The Joint Commission, the main accrediting body for hospitals in the nation. The certification follows an on-site review last May and recognizes the hospital’s cohesive approach to foster better outcomes for stroke patients, said Margaret Sabin, president and CEO of Penrose-St. Francis. [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services was ranked among the top 5 percent in the nation for women’s health for the third consecutive year. HealthGrades released the ranking, making Penrose the only hospital in the state to achieve the milestone. The findings are based on an analysis of more than 5 million Medicare patient records from 2007 [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been named among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation for emergency medicine by HealthGrades. The award, which was given to both Penrose Hospital and St. Francis Medical Center, recognizes the top 268 hospitals with superior outcomes. It’s the second year the two received the award. The findings [...] [...]
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