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Memorial Health System - Leading the Way to a Healthier Community Overview

Memorial Health System is an award-winning provider of comprehensive health care services in southern Colorado and a leading employer in Colorado Springs. From our modest beginning in 1904 as a small hospital of only 16 beds, Memorial has grown to a 700+ bed health system spanning two campuses (one near downtown and one in Briargate) plus over a dozen additional locations throughout the community.

Service Highlights

Memorial provides a full range of diagnostic, treatment and recovery services with several areas of focused expertise:

  • Heart and Vascular Center: consistently rated one of the best heart programs in the state
  • Cancer Center: the only comprehensive breast cancer program in southern Colorado
  • Birth Center & Maternal-Fetal Medicine: the largest and most experienced maternal-fetal medicine team in southern Colorado
  • Memorial Hospital for Children, in partnership with The Children’s Hospital:
    • The only children’s hospital in southern Colorado
    • The highest level neonatal intensive care unit in southern Colorado with a large team of specialty physicians who care for the most critically ill and premature babies
    • The only pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in southern Colorado
    • Pediatric clinics for special conditions and chronic diseases like autism and diabetes
    • Physicians representing more than 23 pediatric specialties such as cardiology and surgery
  • Orthopedic Care: consistently rated excellent for joint replacements
  • Disease Management
  • Emergency and Trauma: Level II Trauma Center
  • Radiology and Imaging
  • Rehabilitation
  • Sleep Disorders Clinic
  • Surgical Services
  • Women’s Services
  • Urgent Care
  • Senior Clinic

Wellness

In addition, Memorial serves as a health resource and partner for wellness and preventive care. Through HealthLink, Memorial offers:

  • Nurse advice call center
  • Physician referral
  • Classes and events
  • Health screenings

Contact Information For more information on any of Memorial’s programs and services, call HealthLink at 719-444-CARE (2273) or go to www.memorialhealthsystem.com.

Pikes Peak Regional Hospital

Pikes Peak Regional Hospital (PPRH) located in Woodland Park, Colorado is a community hospital proudly serving Teller County and the Pikes Peak region. We are a 15 bed hospital that offers all private rooms with views of Pikes Peak. We have just introduced Transitional Care (also known as Swing Beds) for the residents of the Pikes Peak Region.

We offer 24/7 Trauma Care, Laboratory and Medical Imaging. Surgical services range from general, gynecology, and plastic to orthopedics. We have a full service digital medical imaging department that includes MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Mammography, Radiographic Flouroscopy Unit and C-Arm Flouroscopy unit..

PPRH also offers outstanding inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services in Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy. Inpatient and outpatient laboratory testing is also available.

Pikes Peak Regional Hospital is proud of all our innovation and technology but it takes more than top-notch technology to provide the best care. The physicians and staff who work at PPRH are among the best caregivers in the region. Our physicians are well trained in the latest procedures, as is every staff member.

We welcome you to our Hospital.

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services

AFTER 60 RAILROAD WORKERS WERE INJURED in a train derailment near Leadville in the late 1880s, B.P. Anderson, MD, and four sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration began a door-to-door fundraising campaign to build a hospital in Colorado Springs. Since its inception, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been infused with vision and dedicated to clinical excellence, whole-person care and serving the unique needs of its communities.

Distinctive Services

While Penrose-St. Francis (PSF) offers a full complement of emergency, medical and surgical services, several programs and clinical specialties truly distinguish the system:

  • The Penrose Cancer Center brings leading-edge, compassionate cancer care to the people of southern Colorado.
  • Penrose-St. Francis' acclaimed Heart Institute consistently achieves outcomes that exceed national benchmarks.
  • St. Francis Medical Center specializes in maternal-child health with a state-of-the-art birthing center, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit and a pediatric unit.
  • St. Francis Health Center excels in behavioral health services.
  • Penrose’s EAP Corporate Health Services helps businesses retain healthy and productive employees.
  • The PSF Health Learning Center is dedicated to healthy aging through an interdisciplinary approach to managing chronic diseases.
  • The PSF Laboratories provide a comprehensive range of tertiary care anatomic and clinical diagnostic services ranging from bedside point of care chemistries to electron microscopy and molecular testing.

Awards & Honors

  • Named one of “America’s 50 Best Hospitals” for 2008 by HealthGrades, the only recipient in Colorado.
  • Recipient of the HealthGrades 2007 & 2008 Gastrointestinal Care Excellence, Critical Care Excellence and Pulmonary Care Excellence Awards.
  • HealthGrades 2006 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence places PSF among the top 5 percent of all acute-care hospitals in the country.
  • Named to Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® list for 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, including one of Thomson’s Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospitals® in the United States. The annual Thomson award for cardiovascular services objectively measures performance on key criteria at the nation’s top-performing, acute-care hospitals.
  • Named a Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® performance improvement leader, recognizing U.S. hospitals that achieve the fastest rate of consistent, annual, clinical and organizational improvement during a five-year period (1999–2003).
  • Selected to U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best Hospital’s” list in 2006 and 2007.
  • Received a 2007 UnitedHealth Premium® Total Joint Replacement Specialty Center designation, reflecting national recognition of the quality of care provided.
  • Only organization in Southern Colorado to receive the 2007 American Heart Association’s “Fit Friendly Employer” Award.
  • 2004 J.D. Power and Associates Distinguished Hospital Award for service excellence.
  • Penrose Cancer Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and is the only facility in Colorado accredited for radiation therapy by the American College of Radiology.
  • Penrose Cancer Center is the only facility in Colorado named to participate in a multi-million dollar National Cancer Institute (NCI) pilot project that will bring state-of-the-art treatment to local community hospitals.
  • PSF’s inpatient rehabilitation unit has the highest level of accreditation from the Commission for the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.
  • The pulmonary rehabilitation program at PSF is accredited as a program of excellence by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
  • PSF’s Diabetes and Renal Care Center is fully accredited by the American Diabetes Association.
  • National Research Corporation awarded Penrose-St. Francis the 2005/2006 Consumer Choice Award, recognizing the system as having highest quality and image in its market and serving the needs of the community in an exemplary fashion.

Locations

St. Francis Medical Center
6001 E. Woodmen Rd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80923

Penrose Hospital
2222 N. Nevada Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO 80907

St. Francis Health Center
825 E. Pikes Peak Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services
Includes Langstaff-Brown Urgent Care Center, Penrose Community Urgent Care, Penrose-St. Francis Health Learning Center, Colorado Sports and Spine Centers and EAP Corporate Health Services.