(CENTENNIAL, COLO.) As much of the community, state, country, and world focuses on the novel coronavirus pandemic, a renewed interest in advance care planning, and advance directives specifically, has also resulted. Advance directives are instructional documents for end of life care that any adult,…

(ENGLEWOOD, COLO.) Centura Health, the region’s largest health system, is currently one of a small group of hospital systems nationwide working to implement a fully digital solution for studying the minute structure of human tissues and organs (histology) and the changes in body tissue caused by…

(DURANGO, COLO.) Centura Health-Mercy Regional Medical Center’s Southwest Oncology has received re-certification by the QOPI® Certification Program, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Association for Clinical Oncology (the Association) and an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical…

(DENVER, COLO.) Caregivers in direct patient care at Longmont United Hospital are required to wear medical grade PPE, but other members of the hospital team are permitted to wear homemade masks. Some of these masks available to staff have four buttons sewn onto the back of a head covering to help…

(DENVER, COLO.) May 6th marks National Nurses Day, the start of National Nurses Week which culminates on May 12th, the historical birthday of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale, who was born in 1820, is considered the founder of modern nursing. “I would like to acknowledge the amazing clinical…

(CENTENNIAL, COLO.) Under normal circumstances, the month of May is the end of the school year for students and the often-revered transition into summer break. For most teens, this schedule has been part of their life since their first year of school. Now that summer is starting and this highly…

(ENGLEWOOD, COLO.) As our communities’ transition to “Safer-at-Home” status, Centura Health wants to share important guidance with older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions like lung disease, heart disease and diabetes, that places them at higher risk for…

(ENGLEWOOD, COLO.) Centura Health, the region’s leader in health care, is excited to announce that eight hospitals across Colorado have received an A score in The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing Centura Health’s achievements protecting…

(CENTENNIAL, COLO.) Centura Health is excited to provide plastic ponchos to our first responder partners as protective barrier in the event of personal protective equipment (PPE) supply shortfalls. Emergency medical services (EMS), fire fighters, and law enforcement play a vital role in our…