Rose Medical Center
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Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
that provides general health care with an emphasis on women’s health, bariatrics, back and spine care, pediatrics and cancer treatment. Rose Medical Center is a part of HealthOne Colorado, which is a 50/50 joint venture owned by HCA
HCA
HCA may refer to:* Haryana Chess Association* Hinsdale Center for the Arts* Hall-Carpenter Archives* Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales* HC Andersen , Finnish rock band...
(Hospital Corporation of America) and The Colorado Health Foundation, a Colorado non-profit organization. Ken Feiler is the CEO of Rose Medical Center.
Rose Medical Center was founded in 1945 by a group of Denver Jewish community leaders who wanted to create a hospital that was free of discrimination and open to doctors and patients of all creeds, races and origins. Following a national fundraising campaign, the new hospital was named in honor of Major General Maurice Rose
Maurice Rose
General Maurice Rose was a United States Army general during World War II and World War I veteran. The son and grandson of rabbis, General Rose was at the time the highest ranking Jew in the U.S. Army...
and the cornerstone of the main building of the hospital was laid by General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
on August 31, 1948. General Rose Memorial Hospital opened for patients in March 1949.
Awards and recognitions
Rose Medical is currently ranked among the best hospitals in Colorado and was ranked 50th nationally in neurology and neurosurgery in 2006 by U.S. News & World Report. Rose was also named on of the Top 100 Hospitals in 2007, 2008 and 2009 by Thomas Reuters In 2008 and 2009 Rose Medical was the only hospital on the list from Colorado.In 2009, Rose Medical had almost 70 doctors listed as the “Top Doctors” for 5280 Magazine.
Both the Rose Spine Institute and the Rose Institute for Joint Replacement earned Blue Distinction recognitions from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is a federation of 39 separate health insurance organizations and companies in the United States. Combined, they directly or indirectly provide health insurance to over 100 million Americans. The history of Blue Cross dates back to 1929, while the history of...
for their demonstrated commitment to quality care, resulting in better overall outcomes for joint and spine surgery patients. Each Blue Distinction facility meets objective clinical measures that are developed with input from expert physicians' and medical organizations' recommendations.
Bariatrics
The Bariatric Surgery Center at Rose Medical is overseen by Dr. Michael Snyder, who has done almost 3,000 bariatric surgeries. The center was deemed a “Bariatric Center of Excellence” and offers a complete program including informational seminars, psychological and physical consultations, and extensive follow-up and support groups after surgery, which is unique to this region. The Denver Bariatric Center was the first to launch a teen program in Colorado that is “a comprehensive medical and surgical program that will provide nutrition, exercise, and psychological counseling with the goal of giving teens the skills they need to reach and maintain a healthy weight for life,"Rose Babies
Rose Medical is known as "Colorado's Baby Hospital" with a state-of-the-art birthing facility and over 4,000 births happening there a year. Famous births include Ashley Bush.Rose Medical Center quickly gained a reputation for its women's health and maternity services, cementing its place in local memory in 1984 with a television ad featuring images of babies born at Rose floating through the clouds. The "Rose babies" advertising campaign was revived in the late 1990s as the hospital's 50th anniversary approached.
Women’s Care
In October 2011 a new technologically advanced procedure to help in the detection of breast cancer called X-ray computed tomography or 3D mammographyMammography
Mammography is the process of using low-energy-X-rays to examine the human breast and is used as a diagnostic and a screening tool....
was made available to patients. The new process is designed to decrease the number of false positives by allowing the doctor to view the breast from more angles and improve the patient’s comfort level during the procedure by requiring less compression than traditional mammography procedures.
Kristen Parker Case
In 2009 it was discovered that a painkiller-addicted technician named Kristen Parker who had hepatitis C had stolen syringes filled with fentanyl, injected herself, then replaced the stolen syringes with ones filled with saline. On Feb. 24, 2010, she was sentenced to 30 years in jail in a federal court.Campus
- Main Hospital Building (4567 East 9th Avenue)
- Goodstein Family Pavilion addition (1961)
- Physician Office Building 1 (4545 East 9th Avenue)
- Physician Office Building 2 (4500 East 9th Avenue)
- Wolf Building (4600 Hale Parkway, opened 1996), housing outpatient surgery and doctors' offices
- Rose Founders Building (1700 Hale Parkway, opened 2006), housing oncology, surgery, and preventative medicine centers