Penrose-St. Francis Health Services will open its newest urgent-care facility in Cripple Creek on April 4. The clinic will provide walk-in services at 1101 Teller County Road 1. It will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and have an on-site registered nurse and nurse practitioner. X-ray services, physicals, same-day lab [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services was named one of the top 50 hospitals by national nonprofit HealthGrades. It is the only hospital in Colorado to earn the distinction, which were gathered from risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates that rank them in the top 5 percent of the nation. The rankings represent the top 1 percent of [...] [...]
Technology at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital is helping Jill Wirthlin regain her life one step at a time. Wirthlin, a mother of four children under the age of 7, suffered a major heart attack and subsequent brain damage just before Thanksgiving. Doctors kept her in a medically induced coma for three weeks, and a few days [...] [...]
Dr. Toni Green finds it hard, impossible really, to maintain any distance from her patients. A surgeon who recently opened a new practice associated with Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Green specializes in the type of surgeries that breast cancer patients undergo. “I chose this type of surgery because it allows me to build a relationship [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Memorial Health System and Kaiser Permanente are each contributing $3,579 to the Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce in payment for its wellness program victories. All 20 chamber employees completed a three-month program in which they were screened for diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, body mass index and smoking. They were offered on-site personalized [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has reopened both the St. Francis Health Center at 825 E. Pikes Peak Ave., and its administrative support center at 2020 N. Cascade Ave., following water sprinkler main breaks during sub-zero temperatures over the weekend. Eleven patients in the Penrose-St. Francis in-patient behavioral health unit were taken to Penrose Hospital. Seven [...] [...]
The Penrose-St. Francis Cancer Center received $1.5 million from the National Cancer Institute to continue its community cancer centers program. The NCI Community Cancer Centers Program is a nationwide pilot program in state-of-the-art cancer care. Penrose was one of the five hospitals originally selected in 2007. The program has now expanded to 30 cancer centers [...] [...]
Catholic Health Initiatives – the parent company of Penrose St. Francis Health Services – has signed a letter of intent to merge eight of its hospitals in Kentucky with other health care systems. Catholic Health will contribute $300 million in capital to the newly formed entity. CHI co-owns Centura Health and operates a dozen hospitals and seven [...] [...]
The trauma center at Penrose-St. Francis Health Services was verified as a level II center by the American College of Surgeons. The ACS verification doesn’t certify trauma centers, but provides confirmation that the centers provide high-quality care. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is responsible for trauma center designations. Level II centers must [...] [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services is ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation for several of its specialty treatments. HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings organization, found that the hospital ranks high in orthopedics, pulmonary care, critical care services, general surgery, cardiac care, stroke care and gastrointestinal medical treatments. All 5,000 hospitals in the [...] [...]
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