As an integrated public safety net organization, Denver Health serves 151,000 individual patients each year, many of whom are poor, uninsured, or disenfranchised. Denver Health admits 26,000 patients a year who receive treatment at Denver Health Medical Center, a 500-bed acute care hospital with a strong trauma team and one of the most high-tech and busiest Medical Intensive Care Units in the state.

Denver Health’s remarkable achievements in patient care quality—despite the vulnerable status of a large portion of its patient population—have become widely known throughout the United States and in many parts of the world. 

Evidence of quality emanates from every area of medical service. This includes the all-important preventive care that keeps patients out of the hospital; the management of chronic diseases or conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure; and acute care, ranging from routine childbirths to the most severe trauma cases.