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About the Center
Denver Health is Colorado's primary “safety net” institution. In the last 10 years, this compassionate organization provided more than $1.4 billion in care for the uninsured. Nearly $240 million of that care was provided last year, constituting 42 percent of all unsponsored care provided in metropolitan Denver and nearly 30 percent in the state.
Twenty-five percent of all Denver residents, or 160,000 individuals, receive their health care at Denver Health. One of every three children in Denver is cared for by Denver Health physicians.
Our Services
Denver Health is a comprehensive, integrated organization with multiple components including:
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398-bed main hospital at Eighth Avenue and Bannock Street that houses the Rocky Mountain Regional Level 1 Trauma Center, the only academic level 1 trauma center in the area;
- 911 medical response system for the City and County of Denver;
- Denver Public Health Department;
9-clinic network of Family Health Centers throughout the city;
- 11-clinic network of school-based health centers in Denver public schools;
- Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center
- NurseLine, a telephone advice line that offers assistance to patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week;
- Denver CARES, a safe setting for public inebriates with community detoxification services;
- Correctional Care;
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Denver Health Medical Plan, Inc.
Regional Facilities
Denver Health also houses the Denver Health Paramedic School; the Rocky Mountain Center for Medical Response to Terrorism, Mass Casualties and Epidemics; the Rita Bass Trauma & EMS Education Institute; the Colorado Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical and Explosive (BNICE) Training Center, a statewide initiative to educate Colorado's health care and public safety workforce on the principles of preparing for, and responding to, a weapons of mass destruction event; and clinical training programs for medical residents and allied health professional in many different specialties.
Faculty
All full-time physicians at Denver Health are members of the University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty. They teach medical interns and residents in 28 different specialties and conduct research that improves patient outcomes at Denver Health and around the world.
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