Children’s Announces Partnership With Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs

from Practice Update, Summer 2006

The Children’s Hospital and Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs —in a shared effort to provide world-class pediatric services to children in Colorado Springs and surrounding regions of southern Colorado announced a new partnership on May 24.

“Children and their families in southern Colorado will experience the high-level of care in Colorado Springs and surrounding regions that they may have once only expected to receive in Denver at The Children’s Hospital,” Dori Biester, Children’s President and CEO said. This latest expansion of The Children’s Hospital Network of Care to southern Colorado will reduce travel time and away-from-home expenses for families who would have journeyed to Denver to seek care for their children.

Memorial Hospital for Children will also enhance opportunities for additional research, enhanced advocacy, clinical trial participation and timely and constructive information exchanges to benefit the children of southern Colorado and surrounding rural areas.  Children’s Hospital faculty who have been providing medical expertise at Memorial for several years, will play key roles in this partnership. Close collaboration between the two organizations, staff and physicians will enhance the timeliness of patient transfers, and medical consults for children, particularly those chronically ill children who require specialized services available only at The Children’s Hospital in Denver . 

A board of directors with equal representation from both The Children’s Hospital and Memorial Health System will share management responsibility for Memorial Hospital for Children.

“We believe this partnership is in the best interest of children,” Biester said. “It will create a seamless network of care for children.”