Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital is a hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.

History

On May 6, 1903, members of St. John's Lutheran Church in Denver met to begin planning a TB sanitarium for the region.[2] In 1905, the Evangelical Lutheran Sanitarium, a tent colony for tuberculosis patients, opened in Wheat Ridge, a few miles west of Denver's city limits. As the demand for tuberculosis treatment waned, the facility moved toward serving Jefferson County as a general medical facility. Lutheran Hospital opened in 1961 and grew along with the county, expanding significantly in 1964 and 1968. The 1970s brought a name change to Lutheran Medical Center, a six floor tower addition in 1973, and expansion of the Critical Care Unit in 1985.[3]

In 1997, Lutheran Medical Center, Saint Joseph Hospital and the Primera Healthcare physician group integrated to form Exempla Healthcare.[4]

In 2010, a new 12 room operating suite, an 18-bed recovery room and a 24-bed pre-surgery area opened in the five-story North Pavilion addition, as part of a five-year building project that added 295,000 square feet to the campus.

A new Lutheran Medical Center is being built off the I-70 corridor of Clear Creek [5]

On August 3, 2024, the new Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital opened with the transporting of patients from the old to the new location.[6]

References

  1. ^ Becker's Hospital Review: Intermountain unveils $680M Colorado hospital
  2. ^ "St. John's History". 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  3. ^ "Exempla - ELMC History". 2004. Archived from the original on December 14, 2001. Retrieved February 9, 2002.
  4. ^ "Health-care company gets 'Exempla' moniker". The Denver Business Journal. September 26, 1997. Retrieved February 9, 2002.
  5. ^ "Lutheran Medical Center addition operates with a new routine" Karen Groves, Denver Post. 24 May 2010
  6. ^ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-re-going-on-a-ride-160-patients-transported-from-old-lutheran-hospital-to-new-one/ar-AA1obUvo?ocid=socialshare


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