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University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) and Anschutz
Medical Campus: UCH
(http://www.uch.edu/) is
located on the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University
of Colorado Denver at 12605 East 16th Ave in Aurora. The
Anschutz Medical Campus
is home to most of the hospital’s services, the University
of Colorado Denver School
of Medicine (http://www.uchsc.edu/)
as well as its schools of Nursing, Pharmacy and
Dentistry. It is also the heart of a bold new health care
city rising in Aurora, Colorado.
Soon, the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
will be one of the
largest geographic medical centers in the world.
The campus is also home to the Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion,
the Center for
Dependency, Addiction, and Rehabilitation (CeDAR), the Rocky
Mountain Lion’s
Eye Institute and many other affiliated Anschutz Campus
services. UCH contains 400
beds and houses a cancer center, a burn unit, a
transplantation center, and many
other specialized medical and surgical programs. Each year
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admits
an average of 300 patients, provides 350 inpatient
consultations, sees 8,500
patients in the Outpatient Clinic, and performs 550
EEGs, 500 EMGs and 30 evoked
potential studies. The five-bed Class IV Epilepsy
Monitoring Unit provides inpatient
video-monitoring to over 150 patients a year. The unit
supports an active epilepsy
surgery program in collaboration with the Department of
Neurosurgery.
Veteran's Affairs (VA) Medical Center: The VA (http://www.va.gov/)
is located 5
miles from UCH. Each year the Neurology Service admits
an average of 225 patients,
provides 250 inpatient consultations, and sees 2,100
patients in the Outpatient Clinic.
The VA will be moving near the Anschutz Medical Campus.
The projected year for
that move is 2012.
Denver Health Medical Center (DHMC): DHMC (http://www.denverhealth.org/portal/)
is located 14 miles from UCH, near downtown Denver, and
serves the population
within the boundaries of Denver County. DHMC contains
315 beds, including 22
general pediatric and 6 pediatric intensive care unit
beds. DHMC is a regional level I
trauma center. There are extensive ambulatory clinic
facilities for both adult and
pediatric patients. Each year the Neurology Service on
admits an average of 325
patients, provides 350 inpatient consultations and sees
2500 patients in the
Outpatient Clinic.
The Children's Hospital (TCH): TCH (http://www.thechildrenshospital.org/)
is
located on the Anschutz Medical Campus. TCH contains 175
beds, including 32
pediatric intensive care unit beds and 31 level III
nursery beds, houses a burn unit, a
large regional oncology unit and a pediatric
rehabilitation center. Major programs in
neurosurgery, orthopedics and other pediatric surgical
subspecialties are available.
Each year the Child Neurology Service provides
approximately 500 inpatient
consultations, sees 2800 patients in the Outpatient
Clinic, and performs 1600 EEGs,
evoked potentials and other neurodiagnostic tests.
Libraries: The Health Sciences Library at
Anschutz Medical Campus
(http://hsclibrary.uchsc.edu/)
is a gateway to the world's biomedical information,
assisting the University of Colorado at Denver in
accomplishing its missions and
goals in education, research, patient care, and
community service. The library's
collection includes more than 250,000 bound volumes and
1,750 current journal
subscriptions. Numerous computerized resources are
available in the library. The
Library's "electronic card catalog" includes books,
journals and audiovisual materials
in Denison Library, as well as material in other
libraries. The Learning Resources
Center provides audiovisual and computer-aided
instructional material to support
lectures and self-instruction. Extensive library
facilities also are available at TCH,
DHMC, and DVAMC. Twenty-four hour online access to
medical searches and the
internet is available at all four institutions, as is
photocopying capability. The new
library is the physical and digital hub of knowledge on
the Anschutz Medical
Campus, coordinating access to information in support of
learning, research, clinical
care, and service to the community.
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