The Medical Center of Aurora

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The Medical Center of Aurora
HealthONE Colorado
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One of the medical center buildings.
The Medical Center of Aurora
Geography
Location1501 S Potomac Street, Aurora, Colorado, United States
Coordinates 39°41′20″N104°49′55″W / 39.68885°N 104.83202°W / 39.68885; -104.83202 Coordinates: 39°41′20″N104°49′55″W / 39.68885°N 104.83202°W / 39.68885; -104.83202
Organization
Care system Private
Type General, medical and surgical [1]
Services
Emergency department II
Beds346
History
Opened1974
Links
Website http://www.auroramed.com/

The Medical Center of Aurora ("TMCA") serves Aurora, Colorado and the eastern Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area (metro area) with four separate campuses providing a wide range of health care services. It was founded in 1974; it now employs more than 1,200 people and is part of HealthONE, the largest health care system in the metro area. Currently, there are more than 450 doctors on staff and 346 beds.

Contents

Services

Specialties for which The Medical Center of Aurora is best known locally and nationally include heart and vascular care, surgical services, women's services, cancer services, and neurosciences, including spine, brain and stroke care.

The center is the only hospital in Colorado with a Level 1 Cardiac Center, which includes a Cardiac Alert Program, designed to train and equip first responders to more quickly and accurately detect and treat heart attacks, and serves as a model for other hospitals throughout the U.S. These and other services have gained national respect and honors for outcomes and efficiencies [2]

The center was the first health care organization in Colorado to offer Aquapheresis, a medical therapy that removes large volumes of excess fluid, designed to improve the quality of life for patients with Congestive Heart Failure. [3]

The center also offers robotic surgery using the Da Vinci Surgical System to perform a variety of minimally invasive surgeries.

Facilities

Main Campus, Aurora

North Campus, Aurora

Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital, Aurora

Centennial Medical Plaza, Centennial

Awards

Hospital rating data

The HealthGrades website contains the clinical quality data for the Medical Center of Aurora, as of 2017. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: clinical quality ratings for thirty-three inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen patient safety indicators and the percentage of patients giving the hospital as a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings).

For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For this hospital the data for this category is:

For patient safety indicators, there are the same three possible ratings. For this hospital safety indicators were rated as:

Percentage of patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 74% Percentage of patients who on average rank hospitals as a 9 or 10 - 69% [4]

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References

  1. "USNews.com: Health: Directory of America's Hospitals: Medical Center of Aurora -- At a Glance". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 22 July 2008.
  2. "TMCA Awards & Honors". The Medical Center of Aurora. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
  3. "Ultrafiltration Versus Intravenous Diuretics for Patients Hospitalized for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure". The Journal of American College of Cardiology. January 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
  4. "The Medical Center of Aurora". HealthGrades.