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University of Colorado Hospital to Host Groundbreaking Ceremony for CeDAR

WHAT: Groundbreaking ceremony for the new University of Colorado Hospital Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation on the University of Colorado Denver's Fitzsimons campus. The $14 million CeDAR project will be a residential treatment facility with programs for those addicted and dependent on drugs and alcohol. Participants will plant a tree to signify the start of the project.
WHO:

Dennis Brimhall, president, University of Colorado Hospital
Dr. James Shore, chancellor, UC Denver and Health Sciences Center
Susan Ford Bales, daughter of President Ford and Betty Ford
John Schwarzlose, president, Betty Ford Center
Dr. Robert Freedman, chair, Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Robert Harmon, professor of psychiatry

WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m.
WHERE: The CeDAR site is east of Peoria Street, at East 17th Avenue and Quentin Street (west of the Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion) on the Fitzsimons campus.