University of Colorado Hospital Awards and Recognition: For Our Care
UCH is Recognized for Excellence in Care Across Disciplines
U.S. News & World Report has consistently ranked many of our programs as among “America ’s Top Hospitals.” In fact, it has done so for 16 consecutive years.
The American Heart Association and American Stroke
Association recognize this hospital for achieving at least
one year of 85% or higher adherence to all Get With the
GuidelinesSM program quality indicators to improve quality
of patient care and outcomes.
Stroke & Neuroscience
UCH’s stroke care outcomes are among the top in the nation tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And our hugely successful, multi-disciplinary stroke program is now certified by the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center.
Heart Failure, Heart Attack and Pneumonia Care
Outcomes for UCH’s pulmonary care, heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia care are also among the best tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
UCH is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the Rocky Mountain region. We are a national leader in clinical trials for head and neck cancer.
- UCH patients’ five-year survival rates for prostate, melanoma, breast, gynecological and lung cancers exceeded state averages at all four stages of diagnoses.
- We performed the world’s first liver transplant in 1963, and have since performed well over 1,000 liver transplants and 1,000 kidney transplants.
- UCH has had outstanding success with lung transplants, with more than 320 performed since 1992.
- More than 300 heart transplants since 1996.
- UCH transplant center received the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services’ Medal of Honor for organ donor practices.
Named among the nation’s top 10 ophthalmology practices by Ophthalmology Times magazine.
Trauma, Urology and More
UCH ranks among the top ten American academic hospitals in treatment of trauma and urological issues, along with still other treatment categories, according to the University HealthSystems Consortium. Like all “academic hospitals,” UCH tends to get very challenging medical cases. Yet the University HealthSystems Consortium – the group to which the best university hospitals belong – has placed most of our programs among the top ten in mortality rates and other scientific measures of quality.
And Still More...
The University of Colorado Hospital has much-honored programs in women’s health, cardiac and vascular care, addiction rehabilitation, audiology, multiple sclerosis and neuromuscular diseases, mental health, primary care and more.