UCHealth Community Benefits Report Fact Sheet Memorial Hospital

UCHealthMemorial Hospital and Memorial Hospital North

Vital statistics fi scal year 2015Available hospital beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .501

Outpatient visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .441,284*

Inpatient admissionsand observation visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,022

Emergency department visits . . . . . . 136,422

Total surgeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,788

Babies delivered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,309

Employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,556

Contribution to the local economyCommunity benefi tscontribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $106.7 million

Uncompensated/charitycare cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $52 million

Total Colorado economic impactof UCHealth hospitals andclinic operations . . . . . . . . .$4.6 billion**

World-class care in Colorado Springs• U.S. News & World Report ranks Memorial #4 in its list of Colorado’s best hospitals.

• Designated as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission.

• 102 clinical trials are currently underway including 65 oncology trials, 13 cardiac trials and 24 others.

• Better-than-average “door-to-balloon” times, offering heart attack patients quick access to lifesaving procedures.

• Honored with the Colorado Safety Coalition’s Patient Safety Award.

• Awarded the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ Beacon Award for critical-care excellence.

Improving lives in our communityMemorial Hospital has been part of the Colorado Springs community since 1904. Since becoming part of UCHealth, the organization has invested more than $90 million in capital projects to improve medicine, advance technology and hire expert physicians to provide a higher quality of care to the community.

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*Includes Colorado Health Medical Group outpatient visits

**Economic contributions of University of Colorado Health, September 2014. George F. Rhodes, PhD, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Colorado State University, and Consulting Economist

Most advanced specialty care close to home• Colorado Springs residents now have more ways to access high-quality emergency

medical care with the addition of four standalone UCHealth Emergency Rooms throughout the community.

• A partnership between UCHealth and Children’s Hospital Colorado is advancing pediatric care in Colorado Springs. Children’s Colorado is building a new children’s hospital on the Memorial Hospital North campus, expected to open in 2018.

• After expanding emergency and trauma capabilities, Memorial Hospital North is now a designated Level III Trauma Center, able to care for patients with cardiac, trauma and other emergency needs.

Building community connections• Create Your Weight is an adult weight management program at Memorial Hospital.

Developed by registered dietitians from Memorial’s food-service provider Sodexo Group, the course uses evidence-based research and guidelines from the American Dietetic Association. It encompasses:

- Nutrition education- Physical activity- The role of behavioral therapy in weight reduction and weight management- Participant data collected before and after the completion of the program

measures its effectiveness.

• Memorial Hospital’s complimentary health magazine, Peak Living, offers the latest on fi tness, nutrition, heart disease, cancer, wellness screenings, classes, news and more. The magazine is delivered to 53,000 homes throughout the Colorado Springs area.

Moving care forward• In a clinical trial pilot with UCHealth’s University

of Colorado Hospital in Denver, Memorial Hospital launched the state’s fi rst-ever Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit, one of just three such programs and vehicles in the United States. This advanced vehicle is like an emergency department on wheels, allowing stroke diagnosis and administration of blood clot-busting medications while en route to the hospital, rather than waiting until after the patient arrives.

• UCHealth provides $3 million per year to the Branch Medical Campus at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). This will provide third- and fourth-year University of Colorado medical students with clinical education and training in a more community-based setting, including more rural rotations. The fi rst third-year students begin at UCCS in the spring of 2016.

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