With eight hospitals, seven free standing emergency departments, three urgent care clinics, dozens of physicians clinics and a premier critical care transport system, our reach at HealthONE spans the Mile High region and beyond. From the towns of our foothills to the communities of our eastern plains, our committed 10,000-plus employees make an indelible difference in the lives of our neighbors every day.

Our success shines through in the awards and accreditations our facilities garner each year. It’s apparent with every advanced, life-saving surgery our physicians perform. It’s clear with each new clinic or program we add, our growth a testament to our dedication to our vision of bringing exceptional health to every human being. We are proud of these accomplishments, and they reflect our commitment to the care and improvement of human life.

At HealthONE, we also never lose sight of our true measure of success: our satisfied patients and families. Providing everyone equally with quality care is what makes us, the largest healthcare network in the Denver area, truly shine. We understand our daily mission goes beyond using our skills to save lives. It involves providing a human touch.

As you will find reflected in the following pages, we consistently meet that goal. Whether it’s the comforting nurses who cared for the wife whose husband lay comatose for weeks after being mauled by a grizzly bear, the motivating staff that guided the farmer crushed by his tractor through a painful recovery, or the expert team that gave a chronically ill woman hope when other doctors would not, our patients say we at HealthONE truly care. And, as one patient put it: You just can’t fake that.

2016 Financials

Taxes$95.1M

Uncompensated Care$60.3M

Community HealthImprovements$7.2M

Community BuildingActivities$4.2M

Health ProfessionalEducation$3.7M

Cash and In KindContributions$1.5M

Research$1.9M

Welcome to HealthONEThe HealthONE hospitals have a long and trusted legacy going back more than 135 years with St. Luke’s, more than 85 years with Presbyterian Denver, more than 105 years with Swedish and more than 60 years with Rose. Today, HealthONE is the largest healthcare system in the Denver metro area and includes:

More than

10,000 employees

8 hospitalsacross metro Denver The Medical Center of AuroraNorth Suburban Medical CenterPresbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical CenterRocky Mountain Hospital for ChildrenRose Medical CenterSky Ridge Medical CenterSpalding Rehabilitation HospitalSwedish Medical Center

18stand-alone ambulatory surgery centers

7freestanding emergency rooms

3urgent care clinics

33imaging centers

Dozensof specialty clinics

AIRLIFE Denver whichprovides critical care air and ground transportation across a

10-state region

Delivering more than 12,500 babies each year

Treating approximately

1.3 million patients annually through inpatient, outpatient, clinic and emergency services

Treating patients from

all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Puerto Rico.

HealthONE Virtual Network

Telemedicine combines medical experts using technology to assess and treat patients who do not always have access to specialty care. Though these patients often reside in Health Professional Shortage Areas, telemedicine also is becoming the standard of care in urban and suburban areas. The Collaborative Digital Online Consultant (CODOC) Telemedicine Program reached a milestone in 2016 as it celebrated its tenth year anniversary. With CODOC’s continued growth, it was renamed and rebranded as the HealthONE Virtual Network (H1VN). H1VN’s ongoing purpose is to enable rapid diagnosis and treatment recommendations in multiple medical subspecialties including stroke, emergent psychiatric evaluation, pediatric cardiology, and pediatric emergency medicine.

Patients often experience better health outcomes as a result of having access to highly specialized physicians. Telemedicine providers conduct consults from their mobile devices such as tablets, iPhone, Droids, and laptops using an internet connection in a HIPAA-compliant environment. H1VN’s first telemedicine consult was on May 31, 2006. The consult involved an 88 year-old patient from Springfield, Colorado, andproved to be very successful.

H1VN has grown steadily over the past decade and increased its reach to busy urban and suburban hospitals across the region. Over 6,500 individuals have benefitted from this virtual healthcare delivery system since its inception.

H1VN partner sites include critical access, suburban, and urban hospitals in a 4-state region with multiple specialty service lines. The possibilities for utilizing telemedicine to improve patient care are numerous and the H1VN will continue to expand to meet those needs.

Directory

The Medical Center of AuroraMain Campus

1501 S Potomac St. Aurora, CO 80012303-695- 2600 | AuroraMed.com

North Campus

700 Potomac St. Aurora, CO 80011303-695- 2600 | AuroraMed.com

Centennial Medical Plaza

14200 Arapahoe Rd. Centennial, CO 80112303-699- 3000 | CentennialER.com

Saddle Rock ER

22500 E. Dry Creek Rd. Aurora, CO 80016720- 376-6400 | SaddleRockER.com

North Suburban Medical CenterMain Campus

9191 Grant Street Thornton, CO 80229303-280- 6640 | NorthSuburban.com

Northeast ER

12793 Holly Street Thornton, CO 80602303-280- 6640

Northwest ER

11230 Benton Street Westminster, CO 80020720-460-3900

Presbytarian / St.Luke’s Medical Center1719 East 19th Avenue Denver, CO 80218303-839-6000 | PSLMC.com

Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children2001 N. High Street Denver, CO 80205720-754-1000 | RockyMountainHospitalForChildren.com

Rose Medical Center4567 East 9th Avenue Denver, CO 80220303-320-2121 | RoseMed.com

Sky Ridge Medical Center10101 RidgeGate Parkway Lone Tree, CO 80124

720-225- 1000 | SkyRidgeMedCenter.com

Spalding Rehabilitation HospitalMain Campus

900 Potomac St. Aurora, CO 80011303-367-1166 | SpaldingRehab.com

Spalding at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center

1719 W 19th Avenue Denver CO 80218303-839- 6293

Swedish Medical CenterMain Campus

501 East Hampden Avenue Englewood, CO 80113303-788-5000 | SwedishHospital.com

Swedish Belmar ER

260 South Wadsworth Boulevard Lakewood, CO 80226720-417-7200

Swedish Southwest ER

6196 South Ammons Way Littleton, CO 80123303-932-6911

Sarah Cannon Research Institute at HealthONE1800 Williams Street, Suite 300 Denver, CO720.754.2610 | SarahCannon.com

AIRLIFE Denver750 Potomac Street, Suite 201 Aurora, CO 80011303-338-7338 | 1-877-2-GET-AIR | 1-877-243-8247AIRLIFEDenver.com

Physician Services Group Administrative Offices4900 S. Monaco St. Suite 210 Denver, CO 80237303-788-2500 | HealthONEPhysicianCare.com

HealthONE Virtual Network (Telemedicine Services)4900 S. Monaco St. Suite 380 Denver, CO 80237303-788-2500 | HealthONECares.com

Outreach Services Administrative Offices4900 S. Monaco St. Suite 380 Denver, CO 80237303-788-2500 | HealthONECares.com

Ambulatory Surgical Centers Administrative Offices4900 S. Monaco St. Suite 110 Denver, CO 80237303-788-2500 | HealthONEASC.com

Access HealthONE750 Potomac Street Suite 201 Aurora, CO 80011303-388-7330 | 1-888-796-6378 | 1-888-RXONESTEP

CareNow Urgent Care ClinicsAurora

5620 S. Parker Rd Aurora,, CO 80015720-446-5893 | denver.carenow.com

Greenwood Village

5990 S. University Blvd Greenwood Village, CO

720-446-5890 | denver.carenow.com

Highlands Ranch

7120 E. County Line Rd Highlands Ranch, CO 80126720-446-5891 | denver.carenow.com

OUR MISSION

Above all else, we are committedto the care and improvement

of human life

OUR VISION

To bring exceptional healthto every human being

OUR VALUES

integrityDoing the right thing,

even when no one is watching

compassionBe empathetic to the needs of othersand sympathize with their situation

accountabilityTake ownership for how actions impact outcomes

respectValue others and embrace diversity

excellenceTake personal pride in exceeding expectations

2016 / 2017 HealthONEBoard of Trustees

Christine BeneroPresident and Chief Executive OfficerMile High United Way

David BoylesChairmanColumbine Capital Corp. and Collegiate Peaks Bank

Jerome Buckley, MD

Forrest Cason, PhD

Greg D’ArgonneChief Financial OfficerHealthONE and HCA Continental Division

Matthew J. Fleishman, MDRadiology Imaging Associates

Jon FosterPresidentHCA American Group

John Hughes Jr., CPA, ABV, CVA

Don KortzVice Chairman of the BoardBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP

John McWilliamsChair, President and FounderWestern Skies Group

Maureen McDonaldSenior Director, Community Benefit and RelationsKaiser Permanente

Brian PaulsExecutive Managing Director, TreasurerThe Pauls Corporation

Richard RobinsonCo-FounderRobinson Dairy

Wagner Schorr, MD

Rick ShallcrossChief Financial OfficerHCA American Group

Sylvia YoungPresident and Chief Executive OfficerHealthONE and HCA Continental Division

2016 / 2017 HealthONECommunity Support Partners

The Ability Experience

American Cancer Society

American Diabetes Association

American Heart Association

American Medical Response Foundation

AMP the Cause

Aurora Fire Rescue

Aurora Mental Health

Aurora Public Schools Foundation

Big Brothers Big Sisters

Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado

Castle Rock Fire Officers Association

Center for Personalized Education for Physicians

Cherry Creek School District Foundation

Clayton Early Learning Center

Clinica Tepeyac

Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence

Colorado Hospital Association

Colorado Neurological Institute

Colorado Physician Health Program

Colorado Rural Health Center

Colorado Telehealth Working Group

Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce

Community College System Foundation

Craig Hospital Foundation

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation

CureSearch

Davis Phinney Foundation

Denver Art Museum

Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Denver Health Foundation

Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

Denver Public Schools Foundation

Denver Urban Scholars

Doctor’s Care (accessible care for the underserved)

Douglas County Educational Foundation

Emily Griffith Foundation

Friends of AirLife

Friends of Arvada Fire

Girls on the Run

Healing Net Foundation

Inclusive Higher Education

Inner City Health Center

Karis Community

Komen Colorado

Leaukemia & Lymphoma Society

Limb Preservation Fund

March of Dimes

Mental Health America

NAMI

Parkinson Association of the Rockies

Pinnacol Foundation

Positive Coaching Alliance

A Precious Child

Project Angel Heart

Rebuilding Together

Retreat and Refresh Stroke Camp

Rocky Mountain Children’s Health Foundation

Rocky Mountain Youth Clinics

Ronald McDonald House Charities

Rotary Clubs of Colorado

Second Wind Fund

South Metro Fire Foundation

Summit Medical Center Health Foundation

Thornton Fire Fighters Foundation

Vail Valley Medical Center Foundation

World Child Cancer

World class, patient-centered careThe Medical Center of Aurora, the first community hospital in the Denver Metro area to receive two-time Magnet designation for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), is a 346-bed acute care hospital located in Aurora, CO. The Medical Center of Aurora is comprised of six campuses in Aurora and Centennial, CO., including the Main Campus, located at Interstate 225 and Mississippi, the North Campus Behavioral Health and Wellness Center, Centennial Medical Plaza, Saddle Rock ER, Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital and a medical office building at Green Valley Ranch.

The Main Campus facility is a Level II Trauma Center with Primary Stroke Certification and Chest Pain Center accreditation, serving the eastern metro area and I-70 corridor. The Medical Center of Aurora received ‘A’ grades from The Leapfrog Group (Fall 2015, Fall 2016), was named Colorado’s only 2016 Leapfrog Top General Hospital, was recognized as the #4 hospital in the Denver metro area and the #4 hospital in Colorado by U.S. News and World Report (2014-2015), and was one of only nine hospitals in the country to receive the Lantern Award for Excellence in Emergency Room Care by the Emergency Nurses Association (2013).

The Medical Center ofAurora

Adolescent program helps troubled teens cope, connect

From the day she took her little boy out of a verbally-abusive home, Sandra White struggled with raising her son. At first, there were tears. Why didn’t his daddy love him? Then he closed up, stuffing his emotions inside. Breakdowns and panic attacks marked his early grade-school years. And then the anger arose.

“I really didn’t know what to do any more,” says Sandra, a single mom with no family nearby for support. Her son was fighting with bullies at school, and his principal was calling with news of suspension. “I’ve got to work, and my son’s getting in trouble. And he was just really depressed.I was at the end of my rope.”

But then her son’s school administrators suggested the Adolescent Behavioral Health Program at The Medical Center of Aurora, and for the first time in eight years, Sandra and Ethan feel less alone. The program, launched in July 2016 and mirrored after two other successful TMCA programs catered toward adults and seniors, helps steer kids ages 11 to 17 down a better path.

“We are really trying to help kids learn to manage all aspects of life,” says Jeff Johnson, the program’s director of outpatient services. Coping with teenage emotions and issues is always hard, especially when compounded by a trying childhood or a mental-health issue. “And today, with social media and cyber-bulling, there are so many other triggers for them going on now,” he says.

The physician-led program involves a diverse team of experts - from music therapists and licensed social workers to behavioral therapists and mental health counselors - who use evidence-based therapies to develop individualized plans for teens. Families, working with HealthONE experts, can consider in-patient and out-patient options.

Ethan, whose mom struggled with getting him to go to school, began a two-week inpatient program at TMCA and was hooked. “I had no problem getting him up to go to group,” Sandra says. “He always looked forward to it.” Now, Ethan’s back in school and taking part in TMCA’s after-school out-patient option.

Individual and parent-involved sessions are part of the program, but therapist-led group therapy makes up its core. Sandra believes those peer-supportive talks are key to Ethan’s success. “I think he’s seeing that other kids have similar issues, and he’s connecting with them.”

Recreation time, class time, and skill-building practices focused on teaching teens ways to handle everyday issues round out the program, which uses a holistic approach focused on physical and emotional health. “Our goal is to fill up each participant’s toolbox with as many skills, strategies and techniques as we can so that when life throws them a curveball, they can manage it,” Johnson says.

Sandra says she can already see a difference in Ethan. “It’s really helping him with learning how to cope. He doesn’t get as angry as fast. He’s becoming a different kid.” For both of them, the program came just in time, she says. “I did not know what to do anymore. It’s just me and my son. It pretty much provided me a Plan B, and he’s making a connection with other kids and realizing he’s not alone.”

Named Colorado’s only 2016 Top General Hospital by The Leapfrog Group • Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital became part of The Medical Center

of Aurora • Opened Adolescent unit at the Behavioral Health and Wellness Center • Rachel Miles, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, was named as TMCA’s Chief

Nursing Officer • Received “A” grade for Patient Safety in The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 2016 Hospital Safety Score • Saddle Rock ER received the

Guardian of Excellence Award® in Patient Experience from Press Ganey • TMCA’s Heart Team performed the facility’s first Transcatheter Mitral Valve

repair (TMVr) procedure in August 2016 • Received the Medicus Integra Award from the Coalition for Physician Well-Being, recognizing TMCA’s

physician-focused approach to promote and ensure physician wellbeing and engagement • TMCA opened a human milk Donation and Outreach

Center through Mothers’ Milk Bank

AuroraMed.com | 1501 S. Potomac St. Aurora, CO 80012 | 303.695.2600

Trusted care, close to homeNorth Suburban Medical Center remains a pillar in the north Denver community, providing a wealth of health care services to the growing population in the area. In 2016, the organization focused on continuing to improve existing service lines and to grow offerings to better meet the needs of the community.

North Suburban Medical Center continued a track record of top-quality, award-winning care all while completing renovations of the OB floor and securing funding and completing the planning phase of new construction that will allow the hospital to nearly double the capacity of the ICU unit.

North Suburban continued to lead the north Denver healthcare market in quality, being the only hospital in this area to be named a top performer in key quality measure by The Joint Commission each of the last five years and by being the only north Denver hospital to receive straight “As” from The Leapfrog Group in their Hospital Safety survey.

Additionally, North Suburban Medical Center became the only Sepsis Certified hospital in the State of Colorado in late 2016 and looks forward to continuing to offer excellence in the patient experience while ever-improving service offerings and, as always, remaining dedicated to quality care.

Updates

• Construction of The Birth Center at North Suburban, which will include 14 brand new birth suites

• Opened an office in Reunion to bring top-quality care closer to home for neighbors in that fast-growing community

• Completed the update of the Cardiac Cath Lab

• Expanded in-house neurosurgery capabilities

North Suburban Medical CenterExperience that deliversAt six months pregnant, Rachel Bjorkman’s fifth run at motherhood took an unexpected turn. An ultrasound revealed a dangerous condition that threatened her baby’s life. The discovery was early enough that the chances of saving her daughter were high. But it meant Mom would have to spend her last weeks of pregnancy in the hospital - during Christmas.

With the rare condition, called vasa previa, the fetal blood vessels cross the opening of the birth canal, putting the baby at grave risk if those vessels rupture. “She could bleed to death in minutes,” says Rachel, who had already had four babies at North Suburban Medical Center, two delivered by Dr. Vernon Naake, OB/GYN.

“He said he was comfortable with delivering this one, if I could agree to hospital monitoring and early delivery.” And, by what almost seemed like fate, Dr. Naake had successfully delivered a baby with vasa previa just months before. Rachel knew it was the right choice, but being away from her family during the holidays was hard to fathom.

“I tear up every time just thinking about it,” Rachel says, fighting back tears as she retells the story. “It was really hard. I’m a stay-at-home mom. That’s what I do. I like taking care of my family and running my house.”

But the nurses at North Suburban, and the confidence her obstetrician gave Rachel and her husband, Tom, made the necessary decision for Rachel to head to the hospital early less painful for the Thornton couple.

“I’m glad Dr. Naake was so insistent about the hospital move,” she says. “And the whole staff was just wonderful.” Dr. Naake provided the staff with a detailed plan covering all scenarios. It started with moving Rachel into a room across from the nurses’ station at 32 weeks, and ended with delivering the baby by C-section at 35 weeks. The staff knew the emergency plan in case of rupture, and nurses monitored the baby daily. And they did everything they could to make her feel at home, Rachel says.

For Christmas, nurses helped decorate Rachel’s room, bringing cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer to go with her tiny Christmas tree. Then they set a visit for the other four kids with Santa on Christmas Eve. “Unfortunately, they were sick that day, so the nurses set up a Skype session. It was so cute.”

Although the stockings were hung by the IV with care, and Mom wore a hospital gown, the kids were able to come to the hospital the next day, and enjoy Christmas morning, presents and all, with their mother.

Baby Tess was born Jan. 5, weighing 5 pounds, 4 ounces. “Everything went great. She was healthy and did not have to do any NICU time,” her proud mom says.

“Every time my husband and I talk about it, we really feel blessed. We feel like it was meant to be that we were with North Suburban and Dr. Naake.” Rachel had been worried that seeing the hospital, which held good memories of her first four births, would be traumatizing after Tess.

“But it’s not. I have nothing but good, happy feelings about it. They were great.”

One of only two hospitals in Colorado and the only hospital in north Denver to be named a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures by The Joint

Commission each of the last five years • First hospital in the State of Colorado to receive Sepsis Certification by The Joint Commission • The only

north Denver hospital to receive straight “As” in The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety surveys each of the past 5 terms • Named one of America’s Top

Hospitals in Patient Safety by the Women’s Choice Award • Primary Stroke Center Recertification by The Joint Commission • National Accreditation

Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) certified Breast Program • Recognized by Healthgrades with a 5-Star Rating for Vaginal Deliveries

NorthSuburban.com | 9191 Grant St. Thornton, CO 80229 | 303.451.7800

One-of-a-kind clinical programsin central DenverLocated in the heart of Denver’s Medical Mile, Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center (P/SL) has been a leader in a variety of complex programs and surgical services in the Denver Metro community and Rocky Mountain Region for more than 135 years. Since 1979, P/SL’s Center for Maternal-Fetal Care has provided the region’s leading care for high-risk pregnancies and high-risk babies. A leader in innovation and technology, P/SL has stood at the forefront in providing complex surgical services ranging from orthopedics, spine, neuroendocrine, gastrointestinal and minimally invasive procedures. P/SL was the first in the Rocky Mountain Region to acquire the da Vinci XI surgical system (state-of-the-art robotic technology) and maintains the largest robotics program in the region offering general, gynecologic, bariatric, urologic, colorectal and gynecologic oncology surgery services.

In 2015, the P/SL Transplant Center expanded to include a robust, multi-disciplinary liver disease and transplant program adding new expertise to the 30-year kidney transplant program, which to date hasperformed more than 1,500 kidney transplants (52% of which were living donors). Performing more than 3,000 transplants, P/SL’s Bone Marrow Transplant program is the largest, most experienced full-service stem cell and BMT program in Colorado and among the top programs in the country. Partnering with HCA’s Sarah Cannon Cancer Network nationally and launching the Sarah Cannon Research Institute locally, P/SL provides cancer patients with “First-in-Man” clinical trials and integrated cancer services. P/SL holds a Stroke Certification and Centers of Excellence designation in Vascular Surgery, Neonatal Intensive Care, Spine, Joint Care and Bariatric Surgery. Patients originate from seven states in the Rocky Mountain region, including Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Montana and South Dakota.

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical CenterAcceptance is unacceptableAfter learning during a routine ultrasound that she and her baby girl had an incurable genetic disease that killed her father at 52 and her grandmother at 54, Jody Balaun focused on living life with purpose. She and her husband adopted another daughter from China, raised awareness and funds for the disorder, and made active family time a priority. But they always knew the disease would eventually show its ugly side.

“A month after I turned 50, a really big liver cyst ruptured, and that started an eight-year journey of excruciating pain,” Jody says. The disorder, ADPKD or autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, causes fluid-filled cysts to overcome the kidneys, expanding the fist-sized organs (sometimes to the size of a football) until they fail. Jody and her daughter Lauren have a rarer and more-aggressive type, ADPKD1, which attacks other organs.

Soon unable to work her commercial-real estate job or continue her hobbies, Jody struggled to find good medical care, as her ballooning liver made eating difficult and breathing painful. Seeking help and hope, she was often sent away with a slew of pain pills and doctors telling her: “You just have to accept your plight.” Then a friend suggested Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center.

“At my first appointment, I met the whole team (led by renowned transplant and liver specialists Dr. Tom Heffron and Dr. Clark Kulig). That just doesn’t happen a lot,” says Jody, who was instantly struck by the team’s knowledge and all-inclusive care. “It was just a breath of fresh air.

Not only do they work well together, but they like each other. There’s camaraderie, and that translates into exceptional patient care.”

The P/SL team, which Jody says does a lot more preemptively than many programs do, emphasizing quality of life, soon suggested Jody join the liver transplant list. During the two-year wait, Jody became even more impressed with her care. “The doctors would call me to check on me and encourage me. I could call the nutritionists any time, and they knew my case. Dr. Kulig set me up with a great pain specialist. They covered everything.”

Jody, whose transplant went well, has lost three inches in chest circumference since the surgery. Her donor liver will remain cyst-free, but she eventually will need a kidney transplant.

She says it’s a relief to know that both she and daughter Lauren, who remains symptom-free at age 25, will have outstanding care at P/SL as their diseases progress. “They feel like family there. As a patient who has a chronic, incurable disease, that is so comforting.”

A year post-transplant and weaned off the pain pills that had stifled her life, Jody says she never thought she would feel so well again. “I’m just more engaged. I’m back to work. I get to be a mom again. I get to be a wife again. At P/SL, they do care, and you just can’t fake that.”

P/SL achieved Leapfrog’s High-Risk Delivery standard for very-low birth weight babies (Only hospital in Colorado) • Received fourth consecutive “A”

Patient Safety Rating from Leapfrog Group (Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017) • P/SL’s Liver Program achieved initial CMS approval and

has realized 100% patient and graft survival of its first 14 transplants, despite transplanting the sickest patients • P/SL’s Kidney Program was recognized

by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients as the highest rated program in Colorado and 15th in the nation for 1-year patient and graft survival •

Colorado Blood Cancer institute holds FACT accreditation since 2002 • P/SL’s Oncology Unit earned the 2016 Unit of Distinction Award and P/SL’s 9A

Medical-Telemetry Unit received an Honorable Mention • Received Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program •

For five years straight, achieved Level One Accreditation status with Distinction by Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society • Received American

College of Radiology Breast Center of Excellence Cancer care full commendation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer with

High Achievement in 2015 • Campus shared with Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at P/SL

PSLMC.com | 1719 East 19th Avenue Denver, CO 80218 | 720-754-6000

Trusted care for childrenRocky Mountain Hospital for Children (RMHC) at Presbyterian St. Luke’s(P/SL) is the anchor hospital in HealthONE’s pediatric system of care. The 148-bed hospital includes an 84-bed neonatal intensive care unit (Level II and Level IV), a 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit and a 44-bed pediatric inpatient unit. The eight operating rooms and two endoscopic suites are dedicated to pediatrics and are the most technologically advanced in the region, specially equipped for minimally invasive surgery.

With more than 300 board-certified affiliated pediatric specialists and perinatologists affiliated with the hospital, they care for high-risk mothers, infants, children and teens. When children with long-term healthcare issues become young adults, they are seamlessly transitioned to the adult physicians and services within P/SL and the HealthONE system of care.

HealthONE hospital affiliations with RMHC build entry points for children’s health throughout the Denver metro area, creating a system that includes: 161 neonatal intensive care unit beds, 92 pediatric inpatient beds, 26 pediatric intensive care beds and five pediatric emergencydepartments. Other affiliations and partnerships including National Jewish Health for kids extend and expand specialized care throughoutthe region.

Patients come to RMHC for highly specialized care from metro Denver as well as a seven-state region with many of them from rural areas.Often support for families in need who have children in RMHC’s care is provided through the non-profit Rocky Mountain Children’s HealthFoundation, There with Care, Ronald McDonald House and more.

Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children

World renowned surgeonsTold their unborn daughter had a rare lung condition that could eventually trigger a deadly infection or cancer, Satish Gadi and Malini Dasari wished they would wake up from thenightmare. But the Baton Rouge couple soon found themselves struggling with reality - this time, from the other side of the exam table.

Both medical doctors, Satish and Malini eventually realized they weren’t getting the skilled care they wanted from their local physicians, whose advice kept changing and delaying the surgery their baby needed. So the parents set out on a search, scouring the internet and asking multiple colleagues from reputable pediatric hospitals across the country for the top experts in the field.

“I told them I want to do everything I can to give our daughter the best possible surgeon with the best possible care,” says Satish, a cardiologist, whose daughter, Samaina (Sunny) has congenital pulmonary adenomatoid malformation (CPAM), a condition that promotes cysts in one or more of the lungs’ five lobes. Both parents repeatedly heard the same answer: Dr. Steven Rothenberg.

The parents soon learned that Dr. Rothenberg, chief of pediatric surgery at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s (P/SL), had performed multiple lobectomies on infants with Sunny’s condition. Moreover, he designed and teaches the minimally-invasive techniques he uses for various chest and abdominal surgeries, even helping engineers fabricate his own advanced tools.

“Dr. Rothenberg performs this surgery all over the world,” says Malini, a rheumatologist.

Set on minimally-invasive surgery, Sunny’s parents learned that Rothenberg’s technique and tools resulted in the tiniest scars, with the biggest of three incisions smaller than a dime. By opting for minimally-invasive rather than open-chest surgery, the chances of post-operative and long-term complications are diminished and her baby’s pain and recovery period reduced, Malini says.

Dr. Rothenberg’s record with the complex procedure, which requires cutting vessels and arteries around the heart and lungs to remove a diseased lobe, was another convincing piece in the parents’ decision. “He has not had to do a conversion in more than 10 years,” Satish says, referring to when something goes wrong during thoracoscopic surgery and a surgeon must convert to open surgery.

Certain they had the right person, Satish sent a CT scan and letter to Dr. Rothenberg, who called him the next day. “I was totally blown away that this guy who is world-renowned had taken the time to review the CD’s that a stranger had sent him and give me a call,” Satish says.

The compassion and expertise of Dr. Rothenberg and the entire crew at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at P/SL made the experience exceptional, Satish says. “Everyone, from the anesthesiologist to the nurses, was so incredibly well-trained and competent in what theywere doing.”

Sunny, who was discharged the day after surgery, should have no limitations, as her young lung grows and compensates for the missing lobe. “She was up and playing in the playroom less than 24 hours later,” Malini says. “If anything, she’s more active.” Satish says he and his wife are beyond grateful for their baby’s care. “It was like an absolute fairy tale for us.”

Dr. Saundra Kay and Dr. Kristen Shipman partner with Dr. Rothenberg at the Rocky Mountain Pediatric Surgery clinic. This team of skilled surgeons work together to provide the highest quality care possible to young patients with a minimally invasive approach.

All pediatric patients treated by board-certified care providers, including 24/7 Pediatric ER physicians • All anesthesia services provided only by

physicians • 25 outreach clinic locations, plus six tele-ECHO sites • Continued collaboration for clinical care with National Jewish Health for Kids,

expanding programs for respiratory, allergy, asthma and immunology care • Cardiovascular service, including open heart surgery and an Adult

Congenital Heart Disease Program • Campus shared with Presbytarian / St. Luke’s Medical Center

RockyMountainHospitalForChildren.com | 2001 N. High St Denver, CO 80220 | 720.754.1000

Special care in the heart of DenverWell known as a Denver 9th Avenue landmark for nearly 70 years, Rose Medical Center is a leader in comprehensive women’s health – including long-held reputation as “Denver’s Baby Hospital” – total joint replacement and spine surgery, cutting edge breast cancer care, as well as the state leader in bariatric and thyroid surgeries. Rose has been granted the prestigious Magnet Recognition Program® designation, one of less than 450 hospitals globally to earn this distinction. Rose has been named among the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Truven Health, was named a Denver Post Top Workplace for the third year, and has earned Healthgrades’ Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence. Rose is honored to have many 5280 Top Docs among its physician team each year.

2016 was a year of exciting growth for Rose. In May 2016, Rose was proud to open the renovated Rose Orthopedic & Spine Center. Not just a construction project, the Rose Orthopedic and Spine Center is a fully integrated program

— starting the very day a patient decides to have joint replacement or spine surgery. The result is beautiful, functional and sets a new standard in patient care. Rose was also proud to open its first free-standing emergency room, the Rose Stapleton ER, in the rapidly growing neighborhood of Stapleton in Denver. Rose’s renowned “Rose Babies” OB program was thrilled to celebrate construction of a brand new well-baby nursery, fully renovated rooms for moms who need to spend some more time in the hospital before baby arrives, and new amenities for families on that floor. The Rose ER on the main campus streamlined the patient experience as well, relocating the entrance for patients next to the main hospital entrance and adding ER-specific parking as well as updating and enlarging the ambulance bay — a lot that used to be shared with patient cars. The result is more clarity and accessibility for patients and EMS partners. Finally, Rose Medical Center finished its beautiful new main entrance at 9th and Cherry, creating a wider entrance for valet and ER traffic throughput and an overall lighter, more welcoming face to the hospital.

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The only choice for a Denver doulaDim lights and soft music greeted Bree Wolfe when she walked into the room where she would have her baby. With her husband by her side, her family in the waiting room, and smiling nurses all around, Bree felt a sense of peace as she readied for the miracle she wasn’t sure would ever happen. Then she climbed onto the operating table.

For Bree, who proclaimed at age 3 that she was going to be a “baby doctor,” it wasn’t the birthing scenario she had envisioned. For years, the Denver doula planned a midwife-attended, wholly natural, water birth. But that dream was crushed by an auto-accident injury, which made the risk of stroke during labor too high.

Bree told her husband that if they must have a C-section, then they would have their baby at Rose Medical Center. “I wouldn’t have had him anywhere else,” says Bree, who has attended births at every hospital in the Denver area and knew Rose providers would make her son’s birth as special as possible.

Before they married, Bree and Shane Wolfe knew they wanted babies. They even had names picked out. A few months after the wedding, the Littleton couple was ecstatic to learn Bree was pregnant, a joy short-lived when she miscarried eight weeks later. A second attempt also endedin miscarriage.

After learning she was low in progesterone, a hormone necessary for pregnancy, Bree began supplements and eventually learned she was pregnant with twins.

“We went in for an ultrasound two weeks later, and one of them was gone,” Bree says. “It was really hard.” But they still had baby Hudson, who gave his parents a rough ride. Mom was sick and in and out of Rose with early contractions during her third trimester.

Five days before the scheduled C-section, Bree woke up with contractions. This time they were not stoppable, and Hudson was breach. “They said they needed to do the C-section now.” But the staff at Rose, where Bree was able to have her midwives for care and a high-risk obstetrician to deliver her baby, kept her relaxed.

“Even though I knew a lot of them, they treated me like a patient. I love that, because everywhere else I’d go, people knew me as a doula and would expect me to know everything. At Rose, I felt like I could ask whatever question I needed.”

Rose also gave her the family-centered C-section experience she wanted, never rushing her and letting her wait for family and her photographer to arrive. Then, Bree and Shane walked hand in hand to the operating room, where they witnessed their baby’s birth together (Bree seeing Hudson’s first moments through a clear drape Rose offers on request).

Dad cried first, soon joined by Hudson, and then by mom. Shane cut the cord, and as he walked toward Bree with their new gift, the OR rang out in the “Happy Birthday” song. Shane laid Hudson on Bree’s chest, where they bonded skin-to- skin while the C-section was finished. “Having my own, live crying baby on my chest was like … time stopped,” says Bree. “I kept asking if he was real, if he was mine. It was amazing. It was as natural and as beautiful as it could be.”

Magnet Recognition Program® Designation from American Nurses Credentialing Center • Truven Health Analytics® 100 Top Hospitals® in the US –

2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 • The Denver Post Top Workplaces – 2015, 2016, 2017 • Straight “A’s” in Patient Safety

Rating from Leapfrog Group Since Program Began in 2012 • Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence from Healthgrades – 2017 • Outstanding

Patient Experience Award from Healthgrades – 2015, 2016, 2017 Atrial Fibrillation with Electrophysiology Services (EPS) • Accreditation from the

Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC) • Aetna Institutes of Quality® (IOQ) Total Joint Replacement and Spine Surgery Programs • Silver

Beacon Award for Excellence for Rose Intensive Care Unit from by American Association of Critical-Care Nurses – 2017 • The Joint Commission

Primary Stroke Center Certification • The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for Spine, Hip and Knee Programs • Best in Colorado,

Best Hospital, Colorado Biz Magazine, 2016, 2017

RoseMed.com | 4567 East 9th Avenue Denver, CO 80220 | 303.320.2121

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Comprehensive care in the southDelivering on its “beyond your expectations” philosophy, Sky Ridge Medical Center has assembled a team of physicians and healthcare professionals who offer an extraordinary depth and breadth of care, making it a destination center in south metro Denver. Over the past year, Sky Ridge earned another “A” rating from the Leapfrog organization for patient safety and was reaffirmed as a Level II Trauma Center, bringing more comprehensive care to the community. In addition, its comprehensive cancer, stroke, chest pain and bariatric programs were reaccredited with accolades during recent surveys.

In 2016, Sky Ridge opened a dedicated Pediatric Emergency Department in the Evergreen Medical Office Building on Its campus. Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Sky Ridge offers 24/7 care with doctors, nurses and techs who work only with children. This 11-bed ER has ambulance access, giving parents greater peace of mind…close to home. In addition, the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children multi-specialty suite and Rocky Mountain

Orthopedics, Concussion, Surgery and Youth Sports Medicine are now conveniently located in the Evergreen Medical Office Building on the campus.

The Invision Sally Jobe Breast Center opened its office in the Evergreen Building and a new breast surgical suite opened in the Conifer Building, further expanding the Sky Ridge Breast Center. With the addition of two fellowship trained Gyn Oncologists and a female cardiologist, the Women’s Hospital at Sky Ridge is poised to offer depth and breadth of care for women at every stage of life. Over the past year, Sky Ridge also increased its technology prowess with the purchase of Veran technology for the earlier detection of lung cancer, the Mazor X system for enhanced precision in spine surgery and a second Xi robot for minimally invasive surgical techniques.

From its state-of-the-art Spine and Total Joint Center, comprehensive cancer and neurosciences programs and expansive Women’s Hospital toits trauma center, stroke expertise and cardiac wellness center, Sky Ridge is poised to serve the community for a lifetime.

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A voice for vaccinesJenny Card and her husband were playing “Beat the Parents” with their kids when she got the phone call from her doctor. As she learned her tests were positive, her 10-year- old son and 8-year-old daughter oblivious by her side, Jenny locked eyes with her husband across the board-game-strewn table and mouthed the words: I have cancer.

“His jaw dropped, and tears welled in his eyes,” Jenny says. “I was in shock. You don’t really know what to say or think when you are told that. When I got off the phone, he just came over and held me.” An emotional ride ensued, made easier by supportive staff at Sky Ridge Medical Center. Now, because she doesn’t want other women to go through her experience, Jenny is sounding the message that cervical cancer can be prevented.

“The kicker here is that it had been eight years since my last Pap smear,” says Jenny, 30, whose tests detected cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV), the chief cause of cervical cancer. “If I had my Pap yearly, my doctor would have caught the HPV and the precancerous cells before they turned to cancer.”

Since the advent of the Pap test, rates of cervical cancer (once a main cancer-killer in women) have dropped by more than 50 percent. Women who test positive for HPV are followed even more closely for the often silent cancer.

For Jenny, her Stage 1 cancer gave her a signal: a traumatic bout of hemorrhaging during a family shopping trip. After one obstetrician told her to come in in three weeks, Jenny turned to Dr. Susan Ljunghag of the Sky Ridge OB/GYN Center. Within hours she was seen, and within days, Jenny was diagnosed.

Scared and anxious, Jenny welcomed the atmosphere of caring she felt at Sky Ridge. “I was in a daze,” she says of when she next saw her surgeon, Gynecologic Oncologist Dr. Glenn Bigsby. “He was so sensitive and detailed in explaining what was happening and what we could do to fight the cancer.”

Since she had finished with childbirth, Jenny chose a robotic-assisted radical hysterectomy to reduce the chance of recurrence. “Everybody was so kind,” she says, recalling her anxiousness the day of surgery. “I knew that when I was in that pre-op room, that it was going to be OK,” she says. “The nurses were like my angels, and then Dr. Bigsby came in and hugged me and told me that we were going to get on with our lives now.”

The minimally-invasive option was a good choice for the active mom and avid runner, who was never bed-ridden and started begging Dr. Bigsby to let her run again within three weeks (he said OK at about six weeks). “It was super quick,” Jenny says of the surgery, still marveling at how the procedure was performed through five, inch-long incisions.

Today, Jenny urges all parents to consider HPV vaccines for both boys and girls ages 10 to 12, as it can help reduce cervical and other forms of cancer. And, coming from someone who will now have Pap smears every six months for the rest of her life, she tells all women: “It is 30 minutes of your life one time a year. Just get it done. It’s worth it.”

Joint Commission certification for stroke, spine, hip and knee programs • Joint Commission top performer for key quality measures • “A” patient safety

rating from Leapfrog Group • Commission on Cancer Accredited Program • Accredited Breast Center by the National Accreditation Program for Breast

Centers • Named one of top 101 hospitals for spine surgery by Becker’s Health Review • US News and World Report Best Regional Hospitals • Bariatric

Center of Excellence from the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program • Chest Pain Accreditation from the

Society of Chest Pain Centers • Accredited Stroke Center • ACR Accredited Facility • Rated number one in safety by Consumer Reports • Reader’s

Choice Award – Best Regional Hospital – Colorado Community Newspapers, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 • Women’s Choice Award for Obstetrics

and Breast Care, 2017

SkyRidgeMedCenter.com | 10101 RidgeGate Parkway, Lone Tree, CO 80124 | 720.225.1000

Acute Care Rehabilitation HospitalSpalding was the first licensed rehabilitation facility in Colorado specializing in treatment of conditions such as stroke, brain injury, amputation and other disabling conditions. Rehabilitation is all about compensating for deficits, adapting to a new way of life and restoring function to help patients return to the best life possible.

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Walking out of a crushing injury

One day last spring, Caven Ronald finished breakfast and headed toward his tractor on his property near the rural town of Elizabeth. As he’d done countless times before, he went to warm up the John Deere before tackling the morning’s project. But that day, the tractor didn’t cooperate.

“Instead of just starting, it decided to go, and I couldn’t get out of the way,” says Caven, who knew firing up farm equipment from the ground was a no-no. But after the monstrous back tire rolled over him, crushing his pelvis, Caven is not likely to do it again. “I was on the ground, realizing this wasn’t going to turn out well.”

His wife, who had been vacuuming, stopped and noticed the silence. Caven had crawled about 150 feet when she found him, and she called 9-1-1. Today, Caven thanks the quick response of the local fire department for saving his life, and the staff at Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital for helping him get it back on track.

The tractor left Caven with an “open-book pelvis injury,” called that for the way it splays the front pelvis open, like a book. Strong core ligaments are torn and arteries and veins compromised. The injury requires rapid emergency care, invasive treatment, and a long (three months at Spalding) recovery, much of it with him nearly immobilized.

“I couldn’t do much until the bones healed,” says Caven, who had an external fixator holding his pelvis together, a contraption with steel rods that protruded out his front and sides. “I was at the mercy of the people around me.”

But Caven says he was impressed with the Spalding staff from the get-go. “They work really hard on making you do things from the very beginning. They got me into a wheelchair and outside. That was huge, getting outdoors. They helped with keeping my spirits up and looking to the future,” Caven says. “They told me I was going to get better, in time.”

The real work came when it was time to get back on his feet. “The hardest thing to believe is when they tell you after five months in bed, you’ll have to learn to walk again. You think that just can’t be right. Well let me tell you, it is right.”

Muscle and nerve damage slow the process, and Caven says he was amazed by the team’s hard work. “I don’t know how they do it.” But they did, getting him ready for a walker before he went home. There, he still gets in-home therapy from a therapist Spalding recommended, and he’s climbing stairs and rarely using a cane now.

“I feel lucky that I’ve had such good care,” Caven says, adding that he is also grateful for his wife. “Our life has changed so drastically quickly. I’m really lucky that I have somebody. If I start feeling negative, she’s good at turning that around.” There is one thing she doesn’t maintain positive thoughts about, however, he says: the tractor. She sold it. “She said what she really wanted to do was shoot it.”

Recognized by Rehab Management Magazine as one of the Best of Rehab • Only Controlled Stimulation Unit for Brain Injury in the State of Colorado • Opened a one-of-a-kind Life Gym where patients receive training to re-enter community venues and environments • Over 79% of patients discharge to home having demonstrated significant functional gains in a short length of stay averaging only 12-16 days • Patients functional improvement average two times the national benchmark for “high performing rehab units”

SpaldingRehab.com | 900 Potomac St. Aurora, CO 80011 | 303.367.1166

HealthONE’s Level 1 Trauma Center and Neurosciences Center of ExcellenceSwedish Medical Center is a leading regional referral center serving the Rocky Mountain region for more than 100 years. A Comprehensive Stroke Center, Swedish treats more stroke patients than any other hospital in the region. A 408-bed acute care hospital located in Englewood, CO, Swedish Medical Center has three campuses in Lakewood, Littleton, and Englewood, CO. as well as four affiliated ambulatory surgery centers. Swedish provides pediatric emergency care through Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at the Main Campus, located near Broadway and Hampden Ave. and the Swedish Southwest ER at Bowles Ave. and Wadsworth Blvd.

The main campus is home to Colorado’s only Burn Center and Outpatient Clinic that treats both adults and children, is the third hospital in the country to be certified by The Joint Commission for pancreatic cancer care and the fifth to achieve certification in lung cancer care.

Swedish is accredited by The Joint Commission for CAD/AMI, CABG, and is a STEMI Receiving Center as designated by the American Heart Association and the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. Also a Platinum Target Plus: Stroke recipient, Swedish has been named Best Stroke Center and Best Heart Center by Women’s Choice Awards. Recognizing use of evidence based care and leadership innovation, Swedish was one of only four hospitals in the country to receive the Lantern Award for Excellence in Emergency Room Care by the Emergency Nurses Association (2015 – 2018). Having just completed a $55M Neurosciences expansion and just beginning a $50M cosmetic renovation project, Swedish Medical Center is known for providing the most advanced care available right here in the community, the region, and beyond.

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A body rebuiltAfter hours of searching, Lee Brooke finally spotted the elk he’d downed the day before. He trudged on, coming within 15 feet of the bull when he froze. The carcass had been moved, covered with brush abundant in the remote Wyoming backcountry. “Grizzly,” the veteran hunter thought. As he turned to run, Lee caught a glimpse of the enraged sow as it charged to protect its claimed meat and cubs.

In a split second, he felt the yank of his backpack as the grizzly spun him around, swiping his face and knocking him down. By the time she miraculously retreated, Lee’s face was unrecognizable, his leg deeply punctured, his shoulder broken, and his wrist crushed. As he stumbled away, his eyes covered in blood, all he could see was the ground - with his nose and mustache lying on it.

After his hunting buddies found him, one hiking 2 miles for reception and calling for help, one wrapping Lee’s face in a T-shirt, a long rescue effort ensued. Two teams hiked in by foot, the first one reaching him four hours later. Rescuers eventually transported Lee by stretcher to a clearing where a helicopter could land.

By the time he was helicoptered off the mountain to a small Wyoming town and flown by plane to Swedish Medical Center in Denver, one of few Level I trauma hospitals in the region, 14 hours had elapsed. But the team was ready, whisking Lee to surgery and placing him in a medically-induced coma in preparation for the intense treatment that lay ahead.

“They gave him an amnesia-type drug so he wouldn’t relive the attack while he was immobilized,” says Lee’s wife, Martha, who flew to Denver from their Pennsylvania home the next day. From the minute she walked in, Swedish staff

embraced her, comforting her and explaining everything as her husband’s life-saving treatment continued, Martha says. “I told them if anybody is going to pull through this and live, it’s going to be Lee, because his love for life is just too strong.”

Lee had five surgeries to reduce the high risk of deadly infection in the first week alone. “Dr. (Lily) Daniali and Dr. (Benson) Pulikkottil were very meticulous, opening each deep wound and cleaning and closing them back up,” Martha says, referring to the two microvascular reconstructive specialists who led Lee’s care.

Once stabilized, Lee’s rebuilding began. A multidisciplinary team of experts conducted a marathon surgery, rebuilding Lee’s mauled face and limbs. “I had 10 doctors in there working on me,” Lee says, including trauma, orthopedic trauma, otolaryngology, maxillofacial and microvascular specialists.

Drs Pulikkottil and Daniali removed a fibula and a flap of skin from his leg, then used the bone and skin to rebuild his face. Meanwhile, another team was conducting limb-saving surgery on his arm, as another crew was patching his leg. Surgeons tag-teamed in and out of the 24-hour procedure, which left Lee with a working but temporary plastic nose.

With a long road ahead, including more surgeries, Lee says there’s no doubt the couple will travel the 2,000 miles for the expert care at Swedish, where doctors will reconstruct a nose, possibly even using his own nose. His hunting partner put it in his pocket before he was airlifted. “The doctors anchored it to my arm to keep it alive. It’s just amazing.”

Throughout the ordeal (five months in Swedish), Lee and Martha say they were impressed by the entire staff’s motivation and teamwork, including their Swedish nurses and their therapists. “They were so confident and compassionate and communicated really well back and forth,” Lee says. “Everybody was phenomenal. They built me up and never let me down. They’re the best of the best.”

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Emergency air and ground critical care transportThis year marks the 34th year of service for AirLife Denver, the Air Medical and Critical Care transport program for HealthONE. AirLife Denver was recognized as the 2010-2011 international Air Medical Program of the Year by the Association of Air Medical Service.

AirLife Denver provides air and ground critical care transport for both adult and pediatric patients, high risk obstetrical transport, high risk neonatal transport and intra-aortic balloon pump transports in a 10-state region including Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Arizona and Texas. Since it was established in 1983, AirLife Denver has served more than 63,000 patients across the metro Denver area and Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions.

AirLife Denver’s commitment to patient care and quality is second only to its emphasis on safety. Unique and proven safety upgrades include custom aircraft design, the use of Night Vision Goggles, Global Positioning Systems, Terrain Avoidance Warning Systems and state-of-the art weather monitoring.

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The team to trust when seconds countOn the day Bill Meehan dropped “like a sack of potatoes” at the gym, he had wrestled with whether or not to work out. The Chief Operating Officer for Frontier Airlines was considering pointing his car toward I-70 and heading to his Breckenridge cabin, rather than the Denver health club.

Today, after suffering a massive stroke that left him lying on the gym floor cognizant but immobile and mute, Bill wonders what fate the lazier decision would have rendered. As it turned out, his exercise choice put time and HealthONE on his side. “I think I was sitting on a horseshoe that day,” he says.

An ambulance crew rushed Bill to HealthONE’s Rose Medical Center, the nearest hospital to his gym. With HealthONE’s AIRLIFE already in the air before he even arrived, Rose doctors were primed, assessing Bill and administering a clot-busting drug in record time. AIRLIFE, the nation’s only dedicated stroke transport team, then whisked him within minutes to Denver’s premier stroke hospital: HealthONE’s Swedish Medical Center.

There, doctors performed a thrombectomy, a delicate procedure in which they thread a stent through a groin artery to the brain and remove the stroke-causing clot. Within two and a half hours of his stroke’s onset, Bill was recovering at Swedish.

“If you’d ever wanted to see a perfect execution from all perspectives, it was how I was handled,” says Bill, who, with his lifelong airline career was highly impressed with AIRLIFE and the entire system.

“They were just a fluid motion. And they didn’t even know who I was.”

With his ID and cellphone in some unknown gym locker, Bill was admitted as “John Doe,” and HealthONE providers scrambled to learn who he was while not missing a beat in care. “They treated me like gold the entire time. That’s important to me,” Bill says. “It shows everybody would get the same level of care as I did. Everybody was truly professional.”

Eventually, Bill was able to write his wife’s name and number on a piece of paper. It was 24 hours after his stroke that she arrived from Houston, where they have a second home. “I was preparing myself for a worst-case scenario,” says Jo Meehan. “Will he know who I am? Will he be able to talk? Will he ever recover?”

When she walked into the hospital room, her husband turned and looked at her and said: “Where have you been? “I thought: What? Maybe I heard wrong,” Jo says. “I said: I thought you had a stroke?”

After the relief set in, Jo began wondering what medicine her husband was receiving. “He was talking about a nurse named Beth on a helicopter and saying she came and visited him. I thought he must be on something really good, because he’s hallucinating that people are coming in to see him dressed in flight clothes. But it was true.”

Bill was so impressed with AIRLIFE flight nurse Beth Ahl and the crew, he sought them out after the ordeal to thank them, Jo says. Bill and Jo are also thankful for flight nurse Sherri Bruning, pilot Joe Cocklin, and the throng of HealthONE caregivers who likely changed his life. “Just looking at him, you’d never know he has been through all of this,” Jo says. “The whole thing is pretty incredible. It’s a prime example of when everything goes right.”

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Telemedicine combines medical experts using technology to assess and treat patients who do not always have access to specialty care. Though these patients often reside in Health Professional Shortage Areas, telemedicine also is becoming the standard of care in urban and suburban areas. The Collaborative Digital Online Consultant (CODOC) Telemedicine Program reached a milestone in 2016 as it celebrated its tenth year anniversary. With CODOC’s continued growth, it was renamed and rebranded as the HealthONE Virtual Network (H1VN). H1VN’s ongoing purpose is to enable rapid diagnosis and treatment recommendations in multiple medical subspecialties including stroke, emergent psychiatric evaluation, pediatric cardiology, and pediatric emergency medicine.

Patients often experience better health outcomes as a result of having access to highly specialized physicians. Telemedicine providers conduct consults from their mobile devices such as tablets, iPhone, Droids, and laptops using an internet connection in a HIPAA-compliant environment. H1VN’s first telemedicine consult was on May 31, 2006. The consult involved an 88 year-old patient from Springfield, CO, andproved to be very successful. H1VN has grown steadily over the past decade and increased its reach to busy urban and suburban hospitals across the region. Over 6,500 individuals have benefitted from this virtual healthcare delivery system since its inception. H1VN partner sites include critical access, suburban, and urban hospitals in a 4-state region with multiple specialty service lines. The possibilities for utilizing telemedicine to improve patient care are numerous and the H1VN will continue to expand to meet those needs.

HealthONE Physician Care provides healthcare in an expansive, multi-specialty network of clinics throughout the metro Denver area.

HealthONE physician care employs nationally recognized physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, occupational therapists, physician therapists, certified nurse midwives, and audiologists, to name a few. All members of the team share a commitment to high-quality medicine, good citizenship, and above all, patient-focused medical care.

Working in collaboration with the entire HealthONE system of hospitals, physicians also participate in outreach programs to outlying Colorado communities as well as Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and New Mexico. In addition, HealthONE Physician Care is a leader in providing support services to the employed providers that allow them to focus on patients and high-quality care.

HealthONE Physician Care provide accounting, billing and collections, coding, human resources, managed care contracting, payroll, physician leadership, marketing support, quality review, risk management and insurance, space and equipment, and compliance programs, along with other tools to ensure the providers can spend more time focusing on the care of patients

5280 Magazine Top Doctors: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,

2014, 2015, 2016

Shay Bess, MD with Denver International Spine Center traveled

to Cali, Colombia and to Ethiopia with the Global Spine

Outreach organization to perform numerous surgeries on

children in need.

Steven Leonard, MD with Rocky Mountain Pediatric Heart

Surgery donated a second life-saving open heart surgery to a

7-year-old Ugandan girl.

Karen McAvoy, PsyD at Rocky Mountain Pediatric

Orthopedics co-authored an article on re-thinking cognitive

rest following concussions published in British Journal of

Sports Medicine.

Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Steven Rothenberg, MD

co-directed a multi-disciplinary team that performed the

first twin-to-twin ablation surgery at Rocky Mountain

Hospital for Children.

In an effort to meet the increasing need for primary care services in the growing metro area, HealthONE has partnered with CareNow to open urgent care clinics. Three clinics, with three more slated to open in 2017, provide extended hours Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Services include quick care for common ailments such as sprains and strains, sore throats and flu-like systems, and minor burns. The clinics also provide occupational medicine services. HealthONE’s additional area hospital-based and free standing emergency rooms will remain accessible for serious injuries and illnesses.

CareNow was established in 1993 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and has been committed to providing the highest quality and most convenient primary care, urgent care and occupational medicine for over 20 years. The expansion to Denver through HealthONE will provide urgent care and occupational medicine services across the metro area and aims to provide the same exceptional care patients have come to expect from the HealthONE system with the convenience of an urgent care setting.

HealthONE’s 18 stand-alone Ambulatory Surgical Centers are conveniently located throughout the metro Denver area, and perform minimally invasive surgical procedures in the areas of Ear, Nose and Throat, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Podiatry, Pain, Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Orthopedics, Spine and Urology.

The pleasant atmosphere and special pediatric-friendly facilities are particularly helpful in easing the fears of children. All of the centers are state-of-the-art, which allows them to offer a safe, convenient, high-quality alternative to inpatient hospitalization.

HealthONE Outreach Services offers access to a vast array of resources requested by rural and outlying communities. HealthONE hospitals and 3,000 affiliated physicians have cared for generations of patients in communities both large and small. HealthONE’s outreach program serves the needs of rural residents of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wyoming by providing them access to specialty care when there is a demonstrated need within the community. HealthONE physicians and allied health professionals participate in clinics in over 50 communities – more clinics than any other hospital system in the Rocky Mountain region. The HealthONE Regional Network also affords non-Denver hospitals availability to a variety of service support through an affiliation program.

Part of the service support provided by outreach to non-Denver hospitals includes Continuing Education. In 2016, HealthONE physicians, nurses and allied health professionals offered educational opportunities across the region. Affiliated experts lecture on many different topics, including trauma, stroke, cardiology, orthopedics, neonatal, pediatrics, geriatrics, women’s service, oncology, concussion and EMS. Additionally, 2016 saw the growth of HealthONEUniversity.com. HealthONEUniversity.com brings convenient, on-demand CME and non-CME training on a wide range of topics, and allows physicians and other providers to access a library of resources featuring HealthONE physicians.

The outreach program allows rural healthcare providers the ability to stay involved in the care and follow-up of their patients, and allows patients to access the services of HealthONE without traveling to the Denver metro area.

Buying Grandpa more timeAs an old Army vet and retired school principal, James Phil Barra shoots straight. At 79, he tells people the stage 4 cancer that has challenged him for the past four years will probably have him “pushing up daisies” soon. But that doesn’t mean the witty Colorado Springs husband and grandfather won’t fight for more time if given a chance.

James was handed that opportunity through a clinical trial at Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI) at HealthONE in Denver. After enduring a string of ineffective treatments that left him “sicker than a dog,” James’s doctors were out of options. They referred him to SCRI, a global network and HealthONE partner that conducts clinical trials across the country.

Now under the care of Dr. Gerald Falchook, director of SCRI at HealthONE, James has seen his salivary-cancer tumors stabilize in a first-in-human drug trial. The 10 months of experimental treatment he has received on this trial is longer than he has been on any of his prior therapies for his cancer. “They are just staying pains in the neck,” James jokes, adding that he’s thankful to have the trial and Falchook’s specialized team nearby. “I get a kick out of him. And he has some absolutely wonderful nurses. They really enjoy what they do and know what they are doing is valuable.”

James sees the staff three Tuesdays a month, undergoing a series of tests before getting his “bag of juice,” as he calls it. Although the “juice” hasn’t shrunk his tumors as it has with some other patients, his side effects are minimal, allowing him to enjoy his days.

Whether that means cutting the grass or collecting with his grandson his treasured insulator cups (the colorful glass cups that once lined telephone poles in the early 1900s), having more quality moments is the point. “If it gives me more time with my family, then it’s worth it.” And, he adds: “You just never know.”

Access HealthONE is a 24/7 transfer center that serves as a gateway for requests from physicians wishing to transfer a patient or access HealthONE hospital services. Access is staffed with experienced acute care RNs to facilitate safe patient transfers, consults, transports and telemedicine requests.

Access HealthONE assistance provides patients in hospitals, urgent care centers, free standing emergency rooms, physician offices, and other medical locations access to a higher level of care that would not be available in their current location. Clinicians assist nurses and physicians in both HealthONE and non-HealthONE hospitals with making all of the arrangements needed to transfer a patient to a more specialized care facility. This takes strong clinical knowledge, solid customer service, and a proficiency in understanding technology to provide the best patient care possible.

The goals of Access HealthONE are to:

• Provide a one-call service for physicians wishing to access HealthONE hospitals

• Quickly link referring physicians to the right consulting and accepting physicians

• Expedite a safe patient transfer, upon accepting physician approval

The transfer center acts as a hub between the HealthONE system and regional, international and local facilities. In 2016 Access HealthONE facilitated:

• More than 46,000 patient consults, telemedicine, direct admits, transports and transfers;

• Patient transfers from 17 different states;

• International transfers from South Africa, United Kingdom, Costa Rica and Mexico.

Innovative Cancer Treatment Options in DenverSarah Cannon, the Cancer Institute of HCA, and the HealthONE hospitals are fighting cancer together throughout the Rocky Mountain region to offer patients cutting-edge clinical research alongside integrated cancer services from discovery to recovery. Sarah Cannon Research Institute at HealthONE, a cancer research program dedicated to conducting innovative clinical trials in the community setting, opened in February 2015 and has surpassed every expectation to advance cancer research right here in Denver and throughout the region. Patients are travelling from near and far to participate in clinical trials and are being offered hope for a future – and care options - that weren’t previously available in this area. Led by medical director, Gerald Falchook, MD, patients have been seen from multiple states and many are traveling hundreds, if not thousands, of miles to receive treatment. In the first two years, more than 200 patients enrolled in a trial and nearly 4,000 visits were made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute at HealthONE. As of the end of 2016, 38 trials had opened, including several first-in-human clinical trials.

Hospitals

1. North Suburban Medical Center & Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at NSMC

2. Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center; Rocky Mountain Hospital

for Children at P/SL and Spalding Rehabilitation at P/SL

3. Rose Medical Center & Rocky Mountain Hospital for at Rose

4. Sky Ridge Medical Center & Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children

at Sky Ridge

5. Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital

6. Swedish Medical Center & Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children

at Swedish

7. The Medical Center of Aurora & Rocky Mountain Hospital for

Children at Aurora

Stand-Alone Ambulatory Surgery Centers

1. Arapahoe Endoscopy Center

2. Centrum Surgical Center

3. Clear Creek Surgery Center

4. Denver Endoscopy Center

5. Lincoln Surgical Center

6. Lowry Surgery Center

7. Midtown Surgical Center

8. Musculoskeletal Surgical Center

9. North Suburban Surgery Center

10. Park Ridge Surgery Center

11. Red Rocks Surgery Center

12. Ridge View Endoscopy Center

13. Rocky Mountain Surgery Center

14. Rose Surgical Center

15. Sky Ridge Surgical Center

16. South Denver Endoscopy Center

17. Surgery Center of the Rockies

18. The Urology Surgery Center of Colorado

Free-Standing Emergency Department

1. Centennial Medical Plaza

2. North Suburban Northeast ER

3. North Suburban Northwest ER

4. Rose Stapleton ER

5. Saddle Rock ER

6. Swedish Southwest ER

7. Swedish Belmar ER

Medical Imaging

1. Swedish Belmar ER (260 S. Wadsworth Blvd)

2. Invision Sally Jobe PSL

3. Colorado Breast Care at Centennial

4. Centennial Outpatient Imaging

5. Colorado Advanced MRI (1444 S. Potomac St. #110)

6. Colorado Breast Care at The Medical Center of Aurora

7. Green Valley Ranch Imaging

8. Imaging at The Medical Center of Aurora, North Campus

9. Invision Sally Jobe Aurora

10. Invision Sally Jobe Centrum (Suite 300E, 200E & 124C)

11. Invision Sally Jobe Cherry Creek

12. Invision Sally Jobe Golden/Lakewood (Suite 130)

13. Invision Sally Jobe Hampden Place

14. Invision Sally Jobe at Sky Ridge Medical Center

15. Invision Sally Jobe Lone Tree

16. Invision Sally Jobe Littleton

17. Invision Sally Jobe Southwest Healthpark

18. Invision Sally Jobe at Swedish

19. Imaging Centers at Swedish Medical Center (601 E. Hampden, Suite 100)

20. Imaging Centers at Swedish Medical Center (501 E. Hampden)

21. Imaging Centers at Swedish Medical Center (499 E. Hampden)

22. PET/CT at Red Rocks

23. North Suburban Medical Center Outpatient Imaging

24. Outpatient Imaging at Saddle Rock

25. Outpatient Medical Imaging at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s

26. Park Center Imaging, a department of North Suburban Medical Center

27. Presbyterian/St. Luke’s & Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at

P/SL Outpatient Imaging

28. Rose Outpatient Imaging Center (Suite 100) & Rose Breast Center

(Suite 450)

29. Center for Advanced Diagnostics

30. Rose Medical Center Outpatient Imaging

31. Radiation Oncology at Sky Ridge Medical Center

32. Sky Ridge Medical Center Outpatient Imaging

33. The Medical Center of Aurora

CareNOW Urgent Care Clinics

1. Orchard and University

2. Parker Road and Chambers

3. Quebec and County Line