Children's Hospital Colorado | |
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Geography | |
Location | 13123 East 16th Avenue, Aurora, Colorado, United States |
Coordinates | 39°44′28″N104°50′10″W / 39.741°N 104.836°W |
Organization | |
Care system | Not-for-profit |
Type | Children's Hospital |
Affiliated university | University of Colorado Denver |
Services | |
Emergency department | Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center |
Beds | More than 600 [1] |
Helipad | FAA LID: 2CD8 |
History | |
Former name(s) | The Children's Hospital |
Opened | 1908 |
Links | |
Website | Children's Hospital Colorado |
Lists | Hospitals in Colorado |
Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) is an academic pediatric acute care children's hospital system with its flagship hospital located in the Anschutz Medical Campus near the interchange of I-225 and Colfax Avenue in Aurora, Colorado. The hospital system has more than 600 pediatric beds at its four hospitals located in Aurora, Colorado Springs, Highlands Ranch and Broomfield. [2] As Children's Colorado is a teaching hospital, it operates a number of residency programs, which train newly graduated physicians in various pediatric specialties and subspecialties. The hospital is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. [3] The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 [4] [5] and sometimes until 25 [6] [7] [8] throughout Colorado and the Midwest. The hospital also sometimes treats adults that require pediatric care. [9] [10] Children's Colorado is the only children's hospital (verified by the CHA) in Colorado. Additionally, the hospital has outpatient centers, campuses, and doctors offices around Colorado. [11] The hospital features an ACS verified Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center [12] [13] and features a rooftop helipad to transport critically ill patients. [14]
In the late 1800s, parents of kids with medical needs traveled to Colorado hoping that the state's high elevation, low humidity and considerable sunshine would help serve as a cure. To accommodate that need, a group of volunteers established the Babies Summer Hospital in City Park in 1897. [15] Early on, those volunteers saw a need for a permanent hospital that would "care for sick, injured and crippled children from birth to 16 years of age" and which would be supported mainly by volunteer contributions. With that goal to guide them, this same group of intrepid volunteers officially incorporated as The Children's Hospital on May 9, 1908. [16]
In 1909, Children's Colorado converted a former residence at 2221 Downing Street in Denver into a "well equipped institution with a capacity of 30 beds," admitting its first patients on Feb. 17, 1910. [17] As the demand for the hospital's services increased, it quickly outgrew its location at 22nd Avenue and Downing Street. The hospital raised more than $200,000 to build a new facility, which opened in 1917 at 19th Avenue and Downing Street in downtown Denver. The "beautiful, new, green and white" building opened with 100 beds and with what The Denver Post described at the time as "every article of equipment known to science." [15]
After numerous expansions over the years at the hospital's downtown Denver location, Children's Hospital Colorado opened its new campus in Aurora on September 29, 2007. The 1,440,000 square feet (134,000 m2) hospital designed by ZGF Architects includes 284 beds and advanced medical equipment especially designed for children, as well as inspiring artwork and outstanding family accommodations. [18] [19]
On June 21, 2011, the hospital announced that its name was changing from The Children's Hospital to Children's Hospital Colorado. The hospital made the change to help differentiate it from other hospitals in the country with the same name. [20]
One of the volunteers often credited with helping found the original Babies Summer Hospital was Dr. Minnie C.T. Love, who is a controversial and complicated figure in Colorado history. She graduated from Howard University College of Medicine and was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1921, where she served as the chair of the Committee on Medical Affairs and Public Health. She lost her bid for re-election in 1922, but later joined the Colorado Chapter of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan and won her subsequent election campaign in 1924. In addition to being a member of the KKK, Dr. Love held racist views in the areas of eugenics. Children's Hospital Colorado has denounced Dr. Love for her views and chooses not to honor her in any capacity. [21]
In March 2020, the hospital announced that it was expanding its age limit to all patients up to age 30 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to help bring demand away from overcrowded adult hospitals. [22] Although the hospital is treating patients under 30, it is not accepting patients with significant substance use or psychiatric disorders because those are outside of its areas of care. [23] This is a small difference from the hospitals usual age limit of 25. [6]
On the 2022-23 rankings, the hospital was ranked as the #7 best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report on the publications' honor roll list. [24]
In November 2020, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson collaborated with Microsoft and billionaire Bill Gates to donate Xbox Series X consoles to Children's Hospital Colorado along with 19 other children's hospitals throughout the country. [25] [26] [27]
Children's Colorado's campus is affiliated with, and adjacent to, the University of Colorado School of Medicine. The university is home to education and research facilities. Children's Colorado is staffed with doctors from the Department of Pediatrics. [30]
Source: [31]
Children's Hospital Colorado treats pediatric patients with childhood illnesses and provides surgery in areas such as:
Clinical | Surgical |
Allergy | Abdominal and thoracic surgery |
Asthma, Breathing & Lung | Bariatric surgery |
Behavior & Development | Cleft, craniofacial and plastic and reconstructive surgery |
Brain, Spinal Cord & Nervous System | Colorectal surgery |
Cancer & Blood Disorders | Dental surgery |
Dental | Ear, nose and throat surgery |
Diabetes, Endocrine & Growth | Fetal surgery |
Digestive, Liver & Pancreas | Heart surgery |
Ear, Nose & Throat | Burn treatment and trauma surgery |
Emergency medical conditions | Minimally invasive surgery |
Eye | Neurosurgery |
Genetics & Inherited Metabolic Diseases | Orthopedic surgery |
Gynecology | Ophthalmology surgery |
Hearing, Speech & Learning | Pediatric and adolescent gynecology |
Heart | Transplant surgery |
Immune System & Infectious Disease | Urology surgery |
Kidney, Bladder & Urinary | |
Newborn | |
Orthopedic | |
Psychology & Psychiatry | |
Rehabilitation & Therapy | |
Skin | |
Sleep | |
Sports Medicine | |
Teen Health | |
Weight Management |
The hospital operates over a dozen satellite hospitals, outpatient clinics, and other treatment centers throughout the Front Range urban corridor. [32] As of 2022, these include:
As of 2024–25, Children's Hospital Colorado was ranked as a top ten children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report on the publication's honor roll list [33]
Specialty | Rank (in the U.S.) | Score (out of 100) |
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Neonatology | #13 | 78.1 |
Pediatric Cancer | #8 | 93.1 |
Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery | #6 | 83.9 |
Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology | #5 | 90.1 |
Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery | #7 | 93.0 |
Pediatric Nephrology | #20 | 81.1 |
Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery | #16 | 85.4 |
Pediatric Orthopedics | #11 | 86.5 |
Pediatric Pulmonology & Lung Surgery | #6 | 89.1 |
Pediatric Urology | #6 | 84.0 |
Pediatric & Adolescent Behavioral Health | Top 50 | N/A |
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