University of Colorado Hospital is Moving
In just a couple weeks, University of Colorado Hospital will complete the move of all patients, staff and equipment to its new facilities on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. After 42 years at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, the old hospital will officially close its doors to inpatients on June 17.
On June 14, news media are invited to see the carefully choreographed move operation at both campuses as some 150 patients, 8,100 pieces of biomedical equipment, 6,300 kinds of supplies, thousands of pieces of furniture, hundreds of computers and more will begin a tandem, six-mile voyage to their new home.
The day will provide a close look at the intense planning, coordination and execution strategies it takes to move a hospital.
WHEN:
Thursday, June 14, 2007
7 a.m. – 12 p.m.
WHERE*:
University of Colorado Hospital
Ninth and Colorado campus
4200 E Ninth Ave.; Denver
University of Colorado Hospital
Anschutz Medical Campus*
12605 E. 16th Ave.; Aurora
*More details to come about directions and staging areas.
WHY:
University of Colorado Hospital long ago grew beyond its capacity at Ninth and Colorado and, out of room to expand, embarked on a journey to build not just a new hospital, but a new campus that would combine its advanced research and clinical services with the very finest in new ways to deliver care to patients. Partnering with the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, The Children’s Hospital and the Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority, the hospital’s move to the new Anschutz Medical Campus is a major step toward centralizing some of the nation’s finest medical organizations into one “health care zip code” – 80045.
CONTACT:
Sarah Ellis, (303) 724-1520, sarah.ellis@uchsc.edu
Kerry Dixon, (303) 672-4337, kdixon@schenkein.com