• Denver averages 300 days of sunshine each year.
• Enjoy world class skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, hiking, mountaineering, rock climbing, fly-fishing, and white-water rafting opportunities an hour or less away from home.
• Live in a thriving metro area with booming restaurant, theater, microbrewery, and shopping scenes.
• Root on Colorado’s teams for all major professional sports.
• Access to Boulder as America’s ‘foodiest’ town, world class hiking, and major university setting.

Centura Health
Centura Health connects individuals, families and neighborhoods across Colorado and western Kansas with more than 6,000 physicians and 21,000 of the best hearts and minds in health care. Through our 17 hospitals, two senior living communities, health neighborhoods, physician practices and clinics, home care and hospice services, and Flight For Life® Colorado, we are making the region’s best health care accessible and affordable in every community we serve.

Our Mission: We extend the healing ministry of Christ by caring for those who are ill and by nurturing the health of the people in our communities.

Our Vision: Every community, every neighborhood, every life – whole and healthy.

Our core Values:

• Compassion
• Respect
• Integrity
• Spirituality
• Stewardship
• Imagination
• Excellence

Our Sponsors
In 1996, Advent Health and CommonSpirit Health formed Centura Health, a Christian, not-for-profit health system whose incredible people are on a mission to build whole person care and flourishing communities.

Our legacy demonstrates the importance of diversity in thought, word, and action as our founders pursued equality and justice especially for the outsiders, the strangers, the lonely, and the oppressed. Today, it is our turn to carry that same intentionality forward as we continue to walk on our journey of ensuring diversity and inclusivity, and as we drive change in our communities.

Centura Health’s work on diversity and inclusion includes a Social Justice Framework that entails, not only work that has begun, but work that will begin and carry into the future, impressing on the importance of action in this space.

Recognition and Support 

• Centura governance will directly reflect the diversity of communities and individuals we serve
• Develop a senior executive leader – reporting directly to the President and Chief Executive Officer – to lead, coordinate, and facilitate our social justice actions.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday as a paid holiday which will serve as an annual day of prayer, reflection, and dialogue at Centura Health (with programming and education around cultural and ethnic holidays).
• Establish implementation plan with timeline, metrics, and communication including an annual progress update to governance, associates, and physicians. 

Education and Development

• Mandatory diversity and inclusion fundamentals education for all leadership and physicians

Human Resources

• Formal policy, procedure, and process review and revision to ensure recognition of diversity and inclusion (including the absence of bias and discrimination).
• Require diverse candidate recruitment pools for all positions and associated leader education to eliminate bias in the recruitment process.
• Support local, state, regional, and national pipeline programs and fund scholarships in health care professions to increase diversity and inclusion amongst our caregivers (including physicians) Health Disparities.
• Analyze, identify, minimize, and eliminate gaps in care provision disparities and health outcomes.
• Adopt screening for psychosocial factors influencing health and connect persons to culturally congruent resources.
• Expand and improve current social determinants of health categories within our electronic health record (Epic) to include social disenfranchisement, discrimination, and trauma secondary to racism to more accurately reflect the needs of vulnerable populations.

Community Impact

• Expand our supplier/contractor base by conducting business with those who represent the diversity of our communities and the individuals we serve.
• Establish a $1 million community grant program to meaningfully assist community efforts promoting equality, provision of medical services, and the training of community health workers.
• Advocate towards formal local, state, and national policies removing obstacles in social injustice, diversity and inclusion, racism, poverty, violence, discriminatory practices, and their consequences.

We are one human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, disability, gender and ideological differences. Guided by our Mission to extend the healing ministry of Christ, we take meaningful action to heal and move towards sustained social justice.