Now this is not your typical patient story 🦧... Denver Health Orthopedic Surgery Physicians Andrew Maertens, MD, and Jessica Churchill MD successfully performed critical surgeries on Hesty, a 14-year-old orangutan from the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance. The primate was injured during a recent altercation with a family member, prompting Spencer Kehoe, DVM, a specialist in zoological medicine at the zoo, to seek specialized medical assistance. "I explained that I was a veterinarian at the Denver Zoo calling about an orangutan and the person who was helping me on the phone was very polite but was like, ‘I'm sorry, can you repeat that?'" Kehoe said. Watch this one-of-a-kind patient story and read more about the surgery and Hesty’s progress at den.health/Hesty. Thank you to all the dedicated teams at Denver Health and the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance who were involved in this unique and heartfelt initiative to give Hesty, a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, the best chance for a full recovery. 💙 #DHExperts #DHSpotlight #DHOrthopedics #Orangutans #CareForAll #DHPatientStories #Ortho5280 #DHNews
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About us
Denver Health is an integrated, efficient, high-quality academic health care system that is considered a model for the nation. The Denver Health system includes the Rocky Mountain Regional Level I Trauma Center, a 547-bed acute care medical center, Denver’s 911 emergency medical response system, 9 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, Public Health Institute at Denver Health and The Denver Health Foundation. As Colorado’s primary safety net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided more than $3.3 billion in care for the uninsured in the last ten years. Denver Health is a leader in performance and quality improvements and remains financially secure, in part, due to its nationally recognized implementation of lean principles in healthcare. Denver Health is a major resource to the community, serving approximately 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year. Located just south of downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer. We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). “Denver Health is committed to provide equal treatment and equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer of all individuals, including women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.” Visit the Denver Health CAREER CENTER: http://www.denverhealth.org/about-us/career-center
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- Hospitals and Health Care
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- 5,001-10,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Denver, CO
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1860
- Specialties
- Healthcare, Regional Level 1 Trauma Center, Community Health & Primary Care Services, Maternity & Pregnancy Services, Cardiovascular Services, LEAN Academy, Behavioral Health, and Orthopedics
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777 Bannock St.
Denver, CO 80203, US
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We are proud to have Denver Health’s very own Food and Nutrition Services (FANS) featured in a national video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlighting how we implement Food Service Guidelines (FSG) in our nutritious meals and snacks for staff, patients and visitors. Watch FANS General Manager Laurie Wohlscheid explain how FSG for healthier eating were implemented at the hospital through the Colorado Healthy Hospital Compact. Last year, Denver Health was one of only four Colorado hospitals to win the Colorado Healthy Hospital Compact Platinum Award, meeting rigorous nutritional standards and offering healthy food and beverage options! 👏 #DHSpotlight #WeApplaud #HealthyHospital #FoodServiceGuidelines #DHWellness #HealthyEating Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Food Service Guideline in Action: Denver Health, Denver, Colorado
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🩺 Denver Health provides a variety of career paths for nurses! We welcome nursing professionals from all career stages, whether you have many years of experience or have just completed your degree. Check out Denver Health’s featured job openings. 🫶 Charge Nurse - Adult Inpatient Psychiatry | Nights (Job ID: R5407) https://lnkd.in/gdzBMKw7 Registered Nurse - Operating Room (Job ID: 1711) https://lnkd.in/gtPbm8jV Registered Nurse (Inpatient) - Operating Room | Part-Time (Job ID: R6596) https://lnkd.in/gttidkDA Registered Nurse (Acute Care) - Medical/Oncology (Job ID: R5129) https://lnkd.in/gHXufBrX Registered Nurse (Acute Care) - Medical/Surgical (Job ID: R4368) https://lnkd.in/gkYNp-n2 Learn more about our nursing specialties, benefits and how to apply using our nursing job portal at https://lnkd.in/gjzUqZAk. #DHCareers
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Denver Health's Federico F. Peña Southwest Family Health Center has partnered with Re:Vision (Denver, CO) for the past three years to address food insecurity and promote healthy eating habits and lifestyles for children and adults living in Southwest Denver. Food is medicine, and without access to nourishing fruits and vegetables, patients are at higher risk of developing medical problems like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. The Denver Health Med-Peds team including doctors Julie Venci, Carolina Gutierrez and resident Kathryn Hawrot lead a “produce prescription” project that gives eligible patients a box of fresh fruits and vegetables grown locally by Re:Vision weekly for three months at our Southwest Family Health Center. Last month, our clinic team members, including providers, handed out 80 produce prescriptions to patients and families! Working with our local business partners to make healthy foods accessible to those who need it most is just another way we are creating positive and impactful change in our communities. #DHSpotlight #WeApplaud #DHCommunity #HealthyEating #FHC #FoodIsMedicine #HealthyFood #Nutrition #HealthEquity #DHPediatrics 🥕🥔🍅🥦🍊
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Denver Health's Lowry Family Health Center was excited to host Governor Jared Polis and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Executive Director Jill Ryan today who discussed the importance of Practice-Based Healthcare Education grants, one of which the Family Health Center was awarded for its Colorado Works for International Physicians (COWIP) program. COWIP is a unique partnership between the Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning and Denver Health dedicated to empowering current Colorado residents who have graduated from international medical schools with MD-equivalent degrees to excel in primary care residency programs and obtain their medical license to practice in the U.S. Launched in January of this year, COWIP is only the second program of its type in the country and has allowed participants Sulafa Elhassan (third photo pictured left) and Suhaila Obaidalla (third photo pictured right) to advance their careers in the medical field. Sulafa went to medical school in Sudan and practiced medicine both in Sudan and Saudi Arabia before moving to the U.S. in 2015. Suhaila went to medical school in Russia and practiced medicine in Sudan before moving to Denver in 2009. She said she’s “looking forward to give back to Colorado and to work hard to make the medical system better.” Learn more about COWIP at den.health/COWIP. #DHSpotlight #DHCommunity #DHGrowth #FHC #WeApplaud 🌍👏
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🔎 Denver Health provides a variety of career paths for both seasoned and new professionals! Check out our featured job openings for July: Compensation Director (Job ID: R7367) https://lnkd.in/gfjgMSam Certified Surgical Technician - Outpatient Operating Room (Job ID: 9223) https://lnkd.in/g6yyrGev CT Technologist (Job ID: R6312) https://lnkd.in/gZmAsU7m Occupational Health Physical Therapist Assistant | Part-Time (Job ID: R4933) https://lnkd.in/gn5vq3P8 Medical Assistant (Job ID: R7141) https://lnkd.in/gXngnKF9 To search all of our available positions, learn more about competitive benefits and how to apply, visit den.health/careers. #DHCareers
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It may be July, but we are already working to build the largest walking team at this year’s Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk in October! Last year, about 100 people signed up to walk with us in the fundraiser to end breast cancer. We are hoping to break that record this year. Join Denver Health’s Breast Imaging, Breast Surgery and Breast Oncology teams in signing up to walk three miles on Saturday, October 12, at Civic Center Park in Denver. A limited number of Denver Health T-shirts will be available for those who sign up to walk on our team, first come, first served. There is a link on the Komen page under the “our story” section with information on how to reserve your shirt size. Sign up at den.health/MoreThanPink. 🩷 #TeamDenverHealth #DHMammogram #Mammogram #BreastCancer #MoreThanPink #KomenWalk #EndBreastCancer
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Denver Health has partnered with the Denver Housing Authority (DHA) to build single-room occupancy units on the hospital’s campus which give unhoused patients just released from the hospital the opportunity to rest, heal and be supported while working toward securing more permanent housing. Through the Transitional Housing Program, Denver Health can address the often-complicated issues of healing patients face after hospitalization and work through multiple partnerships to help patients move toward stable, secure and longer-term housing. Taylor Sun, Denver Health social worker, and Sarah Stella, MD, hospitalist, call the Transitional Housing Program a “game changer.” It provides a stable transitional home for patient-residents — a unit of their own — while they work through the process of obtaining long-term housing. Read the whole story in our patient newsletter Journeys! https://lnkd.in/eFw-vRqM
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Happy Fourth of July from Denver Health! Wishing you safe and fun celebrations. #HappyFourth #IndependenceDay #USA 🎆
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