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The Children's Hospital Commemorates Centennial

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Contributed by: Amy Moynihan on 9/30/2008

The Children's Hospital will celebrate Sept. 29 the first anniversary of the move to its new state-of-the-art facility at I-225 and East Colfax Avenue. While it marks a year of milestones and successes, including an increase of an average of 800 emergency department visits per month, the hospital is also commemorating its 100th anniversary of service to the children and families of Denver and the Rocky Mountain Region.

Statistics comparing the hospital's first year in its new facility to the year prior document that The Children's Hospital is providing pediatric care to more patients than at any time in its history. The hospital reports a 21 percent increase in the number of patients admitted to its main campus emergency department - a total of 50,741 emergency department patients during the past 12 months. Approximately 48 percent of those patients came from the six-county Denver metro area. Year-to-year comparisons of the nine-month time periods from Oct. 2006-June 2007 and Oct. 2007-June 2008 reveal the following additional figures in relation to the hospital's main campus:

- An almost 13 percent increase in patient days following the move for a total of 49,822 patient-days

- An approximately 7 percent increase in outpatient visits at the new hospital for a total of 142,124 outpatient visits

"We have now had a year to integrate all of the unique design elements into the new Children's Hospital and familiarize the ever-expanding communities we serve with our new location," said Dr. Jim Shmerling, president and CEO of The Children's Hospital. "From the use of color and the family lounges to the innovative, sound-absorbing technology and the leading-edge medical equipment - everything has come together to achieve results that have far exceeded even our greatest hopes and expectations. In addition, we have been able to provide service to underserved families in Aurora. Many of these children do not have adequate healthcare coverage and thus had limited access to primary care physicians. As we had envisioned, The new Children's Hospital truly is the most healing hospital."

The new hospital is the flagship facility of The Children's Hospital's pediatric Network of Care, which includes 13 Care by The Children's Hospital locations across the Front Range including:

· Broomfield

· Westminster

· Wheat Ridge

· Denver - The Children's Hospital at St. Joseph Hospital

· Denver - KidStreet

· Littleton

· Littleton Adventist Hospital

· Centennial

· Lone Tree

· Parker Adventist Hospital

· Parker

· Colorado Springs

· Pueblo

In the year since The Children's Hospital's move, these Network of Care locations report a more than 50 percent increase in their total volume of patient traffic. That increase is due in part to The Children's Hospital at Saint Joseph Hospital, which opened in September 2007, just prior to The Children's Hospital's move to its new facility. It was designed to maintain The Children's Hospital's presence in downtown Denver for central Denver patients.

"It is interesting to note that our first year in our new facility coincides with The Children's Hospital's 100th anniversary," remarked Dr. Shmerling. "It is an auspicious start to our second century of delivering outstanding and efficient pediatric care to patients in Denver and the Rocky Mountain region. We have every confidence that the next 100 years will bring even more firsts and noteworthy recognitions."

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