What We're Building on the Anschutz Medical Campus
As the word spreads about the many top-tier practices at University of Colorado Hospital, more and more patients are choosing us as their health care destination.
As our patient volume expands, we're expanding too. Read about some of our projects below.
New Inpatient Tower
UCH is building a new 12-story inpatient tower that will add more than 734,000 square feet of space.
The new building will more than double the size of our Emergency Department, add an additional 144 beds (with space to add 132 more at a later date), and will feature a rooftop helipad for transporting emergency patients.
See a floor-by-floor diagram.
Work on our new inpatient tower began in early 2011. We expect to open the tower in March 2013.
Watch a Time-Lapse Video of Inpatient Tower Construction
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Anschutz Cancer Center Expansion
Renovation and expansion work is also underway at our Anschutz Cancer Pavilion. A 5-story addition will add approximately 40,000 square feet of new space on the north side of the current building.
We expect to have all work completed in April 2012.
Rocky Mountain Gamma Knife Center
The Rocky Mountain Gamma Knife Center opened in the Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion (AOP) in January 2012.
The specialized radiation technology allows neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists to more effectively treat small- to moderate-sized brain tumors both benign and malignant, including acoustic neuromas, with precision-focused Gamma radiation.
The Gamma Knife, which weighs approximately 42,000 pounds, allows for as many as 192 distinct beams of Gamma radiation to converge on a single target, obliterating lesions with pinpoint precision.