University of Colorado Hospital


UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital or University Hospital is part of UCHealth and is a Level I trauma center and the principal teaching hospital for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, located in Aurora, Colorado.
In the 2017–2018 U.S. News and World Report hospital rankings, UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital ranked in the top 50 for 11 medical specialties and was rated the #15 overall adult hospital in the country.
SpecialtyRanking
Cancer#29
Cardiology & Heart Surgery#32
Diabetes & Endocrinology#6
Nephrology#11
Pulmonology#1
Gastroenterology#16
Geriatrics#32
Gynecology#43
Neurology & Neurosurgery#28
Orthopedics#18
Urology#38

In 2005, UCH was redesignated by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a magnet facility. In 2010, the hospital received its third redesignation of Magnet status. The hospital is currently pursuing its fourth Magnet designation.

Facilities

The University of Colorado University Hospital was originally created on October 1, 1989, as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to an act of the Colorado General Assembly, and after the act was declared unconstitutional by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1990, was recreated in 1991 as the University of Colorado Hospital Authority as a government agency. University of Colorado Health was formed on 1 July 2012 as a joint operating company between the authority and Poudre Valley Health.
In 2015, Adeptus Health announced a partnership with UCHealth to develop emergency care facilities in Denver, Colorado Springs, and northern Colorado, including 12 existing First Choice emergency rooms along with two new ones.