Porter Adventist Hospital is a 368 bed acute care hospital located at the University of Denver/Harvard Park area in Denver, Colorado.
Porter Adventist specializes in treating patients with heart care, cancer treatments, joint replacement, behavioral health, spine care and transplantation needs.
Porter is a regional referral center for the treatment and complex surgery such as kidney, liver and pancreatic transplants, open heart surgery and cancer treatments.
In 2009, Porter Adventist was recognized as achieving quality care, nursing excellence and innovation in professional nursing practice by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The hospital is also ranked No. 1 in Colorado (and above 10 percent nationally) for overall cardiovascular care, cardiology services and coronary intervention procedures by HealthGrades, a leading independent national health care ratings organization.
Porter employs 1,450 people and has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians and allied health experts. The hospital runs a range of community outreach programs including the Kidney Early Evaluation Program, the Community Knowledge Seminar, and supports the Nursing Doctors, a program that provides low-income, non-insured black health care. They also donated medicines, supplies and staff time to foreign medical missions.
The hospital invests $ 40 million a year in charity care and underwriting medical treatment for the uninsured.
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Histori
In the early 1930s, Denver businessman Henry Porter got sick while traveling in California. His treatment in two Seventh-day Adventist sanitoriums inspired him to build a hospital in Denver that embraced the Seventh-day Adventist Christian philosophy to care for all people. In 1930, he donated land and money to build Porter Adventist Hospital.
The original hospital opened only a few months after the Great Depression. From the 1940s to the 1960s, hospitals built additional south, east and west. In 1959, additional hospitals were established; now is the Porter Volunteer Association.
In 1992 Porter Hospital started a hot-line phone Ask-A-Nurse. This service is still offered today.
In 1996, Porter joined the Catholic Health Initiatives, which has a joint venture between the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati and the Sisters of St. Francis, to form Centura Health, Colorado's largest hospital and healthcare provider providing advanced care to over half a million people. people every year, in 12 hospitals, seven senior living communities, medical clinics, Aviation for Life and home care and home care services. Porter continues to be sponsored by Adventist Health System, the largest nonprofit Protestant health care provider in the country.
On December 11, 2014, Porter Adventist Hospital became a Level 3 trauma center.
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Expansion
In 2007, Porter completed a $ 110 million expansion and renovation project that added 100,000 square feet (9,300m 2 ) to the hospital.
Expansion adds a new emergency department. In addition, Porter added 15 operating rooms and 36 intensive care rooms, which combine cardiac and surgical units.
New entrance and lobby were introduced. Finally, renovations include a new parking garage with over 640 new rooms.
In 2009, Porter opened a short four-berth heart bed unit for low-risk heart patients. In 2011, Porter opened the Porter Robotics Institute.
Sponsors and Affiliates
Porter is sponsored by Adventist Health System, the largest non-profit Protestant health system in the United States, with 38 hospitals, 44,000 employees, 23 nursing homes and more than 20 home-care agencies. The Florida-based Adventist Health System serves more than four million people annually and is one of several regional Adventist health care systems in the affiliated country of Adventism.
Porter is also part of the Centura Health system, the largest hospitals and health care network in Colorado.
See also
- List of Seventh Day Adventist hospitals
- List of Seventh Day Adventist medical schools
- List of Seventh Day Adventist schools
- List of Seventh Day Adventist colleges and universities
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Seventh-day Adventist Theology
- The History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Adventist Health System
References
External links
- The hospital website http://www.porterhospital.org
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