Welcome to the Colorado page!
Your Colorado state representative is Lauren Beard, lauren.beard@cuanschutz.edu.
James Barry, james.barry@cuanschutz.edu, is the District VIII representative to the national AAP Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
Colorado Fun Facts
- Colorado contains 75% of the land area of the US with an altitude over 10,000 ft
- Katherine Lee Bates wrote “America the Beautiful” after being inspired by the view from Pikes Peak
- The highest paved road in America is the road to Mt. Evans off of I-70, it climbs to 14,248 ft
- The world’s first rodeo was held in 1869 in Deer Trail
- Every year Denver hosts the world’s biggest rodeo, the Western Stock Show
- Truly a ‘Mile high’: The 13th step of the state capital building in Denver is exactly one mile high above sea level
- The cheeseburger was invented in Colorado. A man by the name of Louis Ballast is said to have invented the cheeseburger in his restaurant called the Humpty Dumpty Drive-in in 1935.
Neonatology in Colorado
The Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative (CPCQC) was established by the Governor to provide broad-based leadership in planning and coordinating statewide perinatal health care delivery. CPCQC has grown into a statewide non-profit organization encompassing hospitals, clinicians, and public health professionals. Together, they strive to improve the health of pregnancy and postpartum people, infants, and their families through quality improvement initiatives. Current initiatives include: Supporting Vaginal Delivery For Low Risk Mothers (SOAR), Colorado Hospitals Substance Exposed Newborns (CHoSEN), Colorade Antibiotic Stewardship Collaborative – Neonatal Early Onset Sepsis (CASC-NEOS) and Levels of Care Assessment (LOCATe).
Level IIA:
Resuscitate and stabilize preterm or ill infants prior to transfer to a facility that can provide appropriate level of neonatal care. Provide care for infants greater than or equal to 32 weeks and greater than or equal to 1500 gms. Provide care for infants convalescing after intensive care.
Level IIB:
Level IIA capabilities. Additional capability to provide mechanical ventilation for brief periods (less than 24 hours) or continuous positive airway pressure.
Level IIIA:
Comprehensive care for infants greater than or equal to 28 weeks and greater than or equal to 1000 grams. Conventional mechanical ventilation. Minor surgical procedures – central lines, hernia.
Level IIIB:
Comprehensive care for infants less than or equal to 28 weeks and less than or equal to 1000 grams. Advanced respiratory care, high frequency and INO for as long as required. Prompt and on-site access to a full range of pediatric medical sub specialists. Advanced imaging with interpretation on an urgent basis. Pediatric surgical specialists and anesthesiologists near-by or onsite to do major surgery (eg. PDA ligation, repair of abd. Wall defects, NEC with perforation, TEF, spina bifida.
Level IIIC:
Capabilities of Level IIIB and has ability to provide ECMO and repair of complex congenital cardiac malformations that require by-pass.
Hospitals which have participated in the CPCC certification process
Level IIA:
•Centura Health St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center –Pueblo, CO http://www.stmarycorwin.org/
Level IIB:
•Banner Health North Colorado Medical Center – Greeley, CO http://www.bannerhealth.com/Locations/Colorado/North+Colorado+Medical+Center/_North+Colorado+Medical+Center.htm
•Boulder Community Hospital – Boulder, CO http://www.bch.org/
•Centura Health St. Anthony North Hospital – Denver, CO http://www.stanthonyhosp.org/
•Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center – Lafayette, CO http://www.exempla.org/care/facilities/EGSMC
•HealthOne North Suburban Medical Center – Thornton, CO http://www.northsuburban.com/
•Medical Center of the Rockies – Loveland, CO http://pvhs.org/mcr
•Parkview Medical Center – Pueblo, CO http://www.parkviewmc.com
•Vail Valley Medical Center – Vail. CO http://www.vvmc.com/
•Yampa Valley Medical Center – Steamboat Springs, CO http://www.yvmc.org
Level IIIA:
•Centura Health Parker Adventist Hospital – Parker, CO http://www.parkerhospital.org
•Centura Health Penrose-St. Francis Health Services – Colorado Springs, CO http://www.penrosestfrancis.org/
•Exempla Lutheran Medical Center – Wheat Ridge, CO http://www.exempla.org/care/facilities/ELMC/
•HealthOne Sky Ridge Medical Center – Lone Tree, CO http://www.skyridgemedcenter.com/
•HealthOne The Medical Center of Aurora – Aurora, CO http://www.auroramed.com/
Level IIIB:
•Centura Health Avista Adventist Hospital – Louisville, CO http://www.avistahospital.org/
•Centura Health Littleton Adventist Hospital – Littleton, CO http://www.mylittletonhospital.org/
•Denver Health – Denver, CO http://denverhealth.org/
•Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital – Denver, CO http://www.exempla.org/care/facilities/ESJH/
•HealthOne Rose Medical Center – Denver, CO http://www.rosemed.com/
•HealthOne Swedish Medical Center – Englewood, CO http://www.swedishhospital.com/
•Memorial Health System Hospital – Colorado Springs, CO http://www.memorialhealthsystem.com/wps/wcm/connect/MH/
•Poudre Valley Health System – Fort Collins, CO https://vic.pvhs.org/portal/page?_pageid=333,352947&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&pagid=1
•St. Mary’s Hospital The Regional Medical Center – Grand Junction, CO http://www.stmarygj.com/default.htm
•University of Colorado Hospital – Aurora and Denver, CO http://www.uch.edu/content/welcome/content.asp?index=WelcomeUCH&title=Welcome
Level IIIC:
•HealthOne Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center – Denver, CO http://www.pslmc.com/
•Children’s Hospital Colorado – Denver, CO http://www.childrenscolorado.org
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