University of Colorado Hospital Completes Move to Anschutz Medical Campus
Contact: Sarah Ellis, (303) 724-1520, sarah.ellis@uchsc.edu
Kerry Dixon, (303) 672-4337, kdixon@schenkein.com
University of Colorado Hospital Completes Move to Anschutz Medical Campus
After 42 Years at East Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Hospital Moves More than 150 Patients and 8,000 Pieces of Biomedical Equipment to New Home
WHAT: This week, University of Colorado Hospital will complete the move of all inpatients, staff and equipment to its new facilities on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. Located near I-225 and Colfax, the new campus offers the most advanced medical treatment and finest clinical amenities available in the Rocky Mountain Region. While University of Colorado Hospital has been caring for patients at both locations for more than seven years, the hospital will officially close its doors at Ninth and Colorado after the final leg of the move takes place June 11-17.
News media are invited to observe the carefully choreographed move operation at both campuses as more than 150 patients and 8,000 pieces of biomedical equipment begin a tandem, six-mile voyage to their new home. The day will provide an up-close-and-personal look at the intense planning, coordination and execution strategies it takes to move a hospital.
WHEN: Thursday, June 14, 2007
7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Press briefings are scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Ninth Avenue location and for noon at the Anschutz Medical Campus location.
WHERE: University of Colorado Hospital
Ninth Avenue and Colorado campus
4200 E Ninth Ave., Denver
* Near the Emergency Department Entrance, northeast of the hospital, access from East 11th Avenue.
University of Colorado Hospital
Anschutz Medical Campus
12605 E. 16th Ave., Aurora
* Park at the Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion visitor parking, southwest of the west entrance.
* Media Staging Areas
WHY: Located for 42 years at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, University of Colorado Hospital grew beyond its capacity and, unable to expand, embarked on a nearly 10-year journey to build a new campus that would combine its cutting-edge research and clinical services and offer the greatest concentration of medical minds in the nation. Partnering with other health care organizations, including the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, The Children’s Hospital and the Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority, to build a “life science district,” University of Colorado Hospital’s move to the new Anschutz Medical Campus is another step in a series of major moves that will centralize some of the nation’s finest medical organizations into one “health care zip code”– 80045.
University of Colorado Hospital is the Rocky Mountain region’s leading academic medical center and has been recognized as one of the United States’ best hospitals, according to U.S.News & World Report. It is best known as an innovator in patient care and often as one of the first hospitals to bring new medicine to patients’ bedsides. Located at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo., the hospital is affiliated with the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, one of three universities in the University of Colorado system. For more information, visit the Web site at www.uch.edu or the UCDHSC Newsroom at http://www.uchsc.edu/news.
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