Rose Medical Center

Infobox Hospital
Name = PAGENAME
Org/Group = Hospital Corporation of America


Width = 150
Location = 4567 East 9th Avenue
Region = Denver
State = Colorado
Country = United States
HealthCare = Private
Type = General, Teaching
Emergency = II
Affiliation= University of Colorado Denver
Beds = 292 [cite web |url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/hospitals/directory/glance_6840325.htm |title=usnews.com: Health: Directory of America's Hospitals: Rose Medical Center -- At a Glance |accessdate=2007-02-07|date= |publisher=U.S. News & World Report]
Founded = 1949
Closed =
Website = http://www.rosemed.com/ Rose Medical Center
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Rose Medical Center is a private hospital in Denver, Colorado. It is known as "Colorado's Baby Hospital"; famous births include Ashley Bush. [cite web |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE6D9123FF93BA35751C0A96F948260|title=For Bush, an 11th Grandchild|accessdate=2006-12-20|date=1989-02-08|work=New York Times] It is currently ranked among the best hospitals in Colorado and was ranked 50th nationally in neurology and neurosurgery in 2006 by U.S. News & World Report. [cite web |url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/directory/glance_6840325.htm|title=usnews.com: Health: Best Hospitals 2006: HealthOne Rose Medical Center, Denver|accessdate=2007-02-07|publisher=U.S. News & World Report]

History

A group of Denver Jewish community leaders began organizing a hospital open to doctors and patients of all creeds, races and origins in 1944. Following a national fundraising campaign, the new hospital was named in honor of Major General Maurice Rose and the cornerstone of the main building of the hospital was laid by General Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 31, 1948. [cite web |url=http://www.rcfdenver.org/about_history.htm |title=Rose Community Foundation History |accessdate=2007-02-07|author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] General Rose Memorial Hospital opened in 1949.

Rose Medical Center quickly gained a reputation for its women's health and maternity services, cementing its place in local memory in 1984 with a television ad featuring images of babies born at Rose floating through the clouds. The "Rose babies" advertising campaign was revived in the late 1990s as the hospital's 50th anniversary approached. [cite web|url=http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1998/09/14/newscolumn4.html|title=Rose recalls its roots with baby campaign|accessdate=2007-02-07|author=Marsha Austin|date=1998-09-11|work=The Denver Business Journal]

On April 25, 1995, Rose Medical Center was acquired by Hospital Corporation of America. Several dozen Rose physicians left following the acquisition, purchasing the former Mercy hospital to start Precedent Health Center [cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1999/05/31/newscolumn3.html|title=Big Precedent profile fades as docs clam up|accessdate=2007-02-07|author=Marsha Austin|date=1999-05-28|work=The Denver Business Journal] , which closed in 1999. [cite web |url=http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-04-01-00020.pdf|title=Hospital Closure - 1999 |accessdate=2007-02-07|author=Office of Evaluation and Investigation|year=2001 |month=April |format= |publisher=U.S. Department of Health and Human Services|pages=20]

The hospital gained a new CEO during the physician flight and the institution recovered from the changes resulting from its acquisition, earning the honor of being named a finalist in the 2001 RIT/USA Today Quality Cup Competition. [cite web|url=http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2001/05/28/story3.html|title=Rose regains footing|accessdate=2007-02-07|author=Amy Fletcher|date=2001-05-25|work=The Denver Business Journal]

Campus

*Main Hospital Building (4567 East 9th Avenue)
**Goodstein Family Pavilion addition (1961)
*Physician Office Building 1 (4545 East 9th Avenue)
*Physician Office Building 2 (4500 East 9th Avenue)
*Wolf Building (4600 Hale Parkway, opened 1996), housing outpatient surgery and doctors' offices
*Rose Founders Building (1700 Hale Parkway, opened 2006), housing oncology, surgery, and preventative medicine centers [cite web|url=http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=36908|title=Hospital hosts Colorado's largest Chanukah party|accessdate=2007-02-07|author=Randy Barber|date=2006-12-10|publisher=KUSA-TV]

References

External links

* [http://www.rcfdenver.org/ Rose Community Foundation]