Denver Health’s Center for Complex Fractures and Limb Restoration has a strong reputation for excellence and our high level of clinical service is considered a model throughout the United States. 

The physicians at Denver Health’s Center for Complex Fractures and Limb Restoration are highly specialized and available 24 hours a day to provide orthopaedic trauma and surgery coverage. Physician consults are also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 

Our physicians are all fellowship trained in complex fracture care, and perform the most complex procedures in medicine today. 

The center’s orthopaedists care for thousands of complex cases a year, using a team approach designed to manage the patient’s whole care process.

• Open fractures
• Complex acute fractures
• Pelvic fractures
• Acetabular fractures
• Replantation of fingers, hands and limbs
• Bone infection
• Nonunion of all bones (fractures that won’t heal)
• Failure of fracture fixation
• Post-traumatic deformities, malunions
• Microvascular surgery
• Hand deformities, pediatric and adult
• All upper extremity reconstruction, including brachial plexus, soft tissue reconstruction
• Arthritis of hip, knee, ankle, hand, shoulder, spine, elbow and foot
• Spinal deformity, scoliosis, etc.
• Spine trauma
• Secondary microvascular reconstruction
• Severe sports injuries
• Rehabilitation (Speech, Occupational, and Physical Therapy)

"Dr. Stahel - Thank you so much for your skillful application of technology, your attentiveness and responsiveness. Notwithstanding the circumstances of my experience at Denver Health, my time under your care was exceptional.

I often work in and around hospitals with clients and I often take time to observe how people behave and interact. A certainty is that behavior at the delivery end of any enterprise is a direct reflection of the leadership people receive and the standards they are expected to attain. Your Orthopaedics department, from residents to post-op caregivers, is bellweather for others to follow.

Your personal presence, availability and connectivity are striking and extraordinary in contrast to nearly all of my clients. Your interpersonal skills are singular and memorable. I’ve worked with hundreds of physicians as well as other business professionals and, as a patient; I’ve seen my share of physicians over the years. NEVER, has even one provided me with more personal attention and never have I seen the level of responsiveness that you deliver. In my jargon, you are the “Dr. Delightful” role model for the profession."