CHILD HEALTH.
REIMAGINED. REALIZED.
CONTENTS
HEART INSTITUTE
CENTER FOR
CANCER AND
BLOOD DISORDERS
BREATHING
INSTITUTE
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10
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ORTHOPEDICS
INSTITUTE
22
NEUROSCIENCE
INSTITUTE
28
FETAL CARE AND
NEONATOLOGY
DIGESTIVE
HEALTH INSTITUTE
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40
TRANSPLANT
PROGRAMS
46
PEDIATRIC SURGERY
58
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED
IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE
We at Children’s Hospital Colorado strive to heal each child
who comes through our doors. That simple, outrageous goal
guides our every endeavor. It is the rule by which we measure
all that we achieve.
Consistently ranked among the best
pediatric hospitals in the nation and
the only top-five pediatric hospital in
the western United States. We’ve been
among the top 10 for more than 20 years.
And in our more than 100 years, we’ve achieved a fair amount.
Beginning with care specifically for children — itself an innovation in 1897 —
our history is full of big-ticket advances in care. Our caregivers have helped
develop life-changing, life-saving drugs. They’ve invented technologies and
reinvented old ones. They’ve pioneered new surgeries, new techniques.
These ongoing research initiatives number in the hundreds and are led by
some of the world’s foremost child health specialists and investigators.
We won the 2015 American Hospital
Association-McKesson Quest for Quality
Prize, awarded to one hospital in the
nation each year for a demonstrated
commitment to safe, highly reliable,
patient-centered care.
Our affiliation with the University of Colorado School of Medicine means
that our doctors, nurses, and clinical staff are not only expert care
providers, but also active researchers. Our new shared campus, which
we moved into in 2007, affords us access to the state-of-the-art facilities,
technology, and creative capital of both institutions. We’re the only
academic and pediatric hospital in the region dedicated to eradicating
disease in kids.
The award committee specifically
recognized the commitment of our
board members and front-line medical
staff to advancing care throughout the
organization. Extensive patient and
family engagement also played a role,
as did our advanced use of data and
analytics.
We’re consistently recognized among the nation’s top pediatric hospitals
by U.S. News & World Report. In 2015, we ranked in the top 10 in six
specialties. We’ve been among the top 10 pediatric hospitals in the nation
for more than 20 years, and we’re currently the only top-five pediatric
hospital in the western United States.
Through our Target Zero program, also
cited, we’ve reduced hospital-acquired
conditions by more than 30 percent and
serious safety evens by more than 60
percent in the past three years.
Also in 2015, we received the American Hospital Association-McKesson
Quest for Quality Prize, recognizing our exemplary commitment to
patient safety and highly reliable care. We were Magnet-recognized by
the American Nurses Credentialing Center for the third time. The list of
accolades goes on.
We’ve been Magnet-recognized by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center
for the third time, a designation only 3
percent of hospitals achieve.
We’ve achieved all this in the service of our patients and their families,
not only in caring for them to the best of our abilities, but in constantly
pushing to expand our limits of those abilities, to interrogate every task,
no matter how small, and ask how we could offer more. It is that
common pursuit, healing kids, that unites us around a common vision:
Child Health. Reimagined. Realized.
RANKED IN 2015
AMONG THE TOP FIVE
PEDIATRICS PROGRAMS
IN THE NATION
by U.S. News & World Report
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RANKED AMONG
THE BEST IN NINE
SPECIALTIES
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Cancer
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Cardiology &
Heart Surgery
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Diabetes &
Endocrinology
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Gastroenterology
& GI Surgery
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Neonatology
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Neurology &
Neurosurgery
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Orthopedics
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Pulmonology
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Urology
Our physicians and specialists sit on
the faculty of the University of Colorado
School of Medicine’s Department of
Pediatrics, ranked among the top five
pediatrics programs in the nation,
and continually one of the best-funded
research institutions by the National
Institutes of Health.
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