University of Colorado Hospital Awards and Recognition: For Our Care
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.
Stroke & Neuroscience
Healthgrades, an independent heath care ratings company, ranks UCH’s stroke care outcomes in the top five percent in the nation. UCH is certified by the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center .
Heart Failure, Heart Attack and Pneumonia care
Healthgrades also awarded “Five Star” rankings – its highest grade – to UCH’s pulmonary care and its outcomes in heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia care.
The only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the Rocky Mountain region; 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.