“The last time we invested in this type of technology was 10 years ago,” said David Ross, associate dean for research at the Skaggs School. “It’s a once-in-a-decade advancement.” Anschutz Medical Campus researchers are studying novel diseases and determining what molecules could be put together to develop a drug that could treat those diseases.
The University of Colorado Hospital Authority, based in Aurora, ranks among the top 20 U.S. hospitals, according to the Lown Institute Hospitals Index.
For the first time since 1969, the academic year opens without a family residency program operating at Rose Medical Center — the result of a dispute between the parent company of the Denver hospital and former partner University of Colorado School of Medicine over how it should be operated.
What's the reason for the company's expansion at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus? "Employment on the campus has grown by 9 percent annually from 2015 to 2017 and exceeds 25,000 jobs today. This number is expected to grow to 46,000 jobs over the next 12 years," Aimco said.
In Colorado, Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge and St. Joseph Hospital in Denver were named to the 2018 America's Best 50 hospitals list. Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, and University of Colorado Hospital - Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion in Aurora were named to the America's Best 100 hospitals list.
Some of the best doctors and surgeons in the state teach classes and serve as faculty members at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora — and they have the salaries to prove it. The highest-paid faculty member is James Jaggers, a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon and the co-medical director at the Children's Hospital Colorado's Heart Institute.
Colorado hospitals made a big improvement in safety practices over the past six months, leading to the state being ranked among the top 10 nationally in terms of the percentage of its acute-care facilities receiving an “A” from a patient watchdog group for preventing errors and infections. University of Colorado Hospital scored its second straight “C” on the Fall 2017 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades report card.
