16. The Medical Center of Aurora
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (303) 695-2600
Address: 1501 S. Potomac St.
Description: Aurora’s only full-service hospital, this facility consists of three campuses: the Main campus, the North campus, and the Centennial Medical Plaza. The center as a whole employs nearly 1,200 people and is licensed for 346 beds. The Main campus hosts among other things a Level II trauma center, the Women’s Center, and the Colorado Spine Center. A new 84-bed tower for cardiovascular patients was added in 2009. The North campus includes the Sleep Disorders Center and the Geriatric Psychiatry/Senior Care Center. The Centennial campus has day-surgery services, and imaging and lab services.
17. Sky Ridge Medical Center
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (720) 225-1000
Address: 10101 Ridgegate Pkwy.
Description: Sky Ridge covers 57 acres and serves residents of Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Parker, Castle Rock, and Littleton. The facility has 156 beds and maintains a Level III trauma center, with 24-hour emergency care and orthopedic surgeons. It also provides cardiac services, has a cancer center and a sports medicine and rehabilitation center, and provides women’s and children’s services. Sky Ridge also advertises its sleep disorders, bariatric surgery, and complementary/alternative medicine services.
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Address: 501 E. Hampden Ave.
19. Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (303) 866-7066
Address: 3520 W. Oxford Ave.
Description: This is one of two state psychiatric hospitals, charged with providing treatment and services for the mentally ill. It was founded in 1961 and has 410 staff members. Fort Logan houses the statewide program for all deaf and hearing-impaired clients with mental illness. Areas of specialty fall in three treatment divisions: children and adolescents, adult psychiatry, and geriatrics. An inpatient-only facility with 153 inpatient and 20 residential beds, this hospital is based on a treatment team approach—a patient’s team consists of a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a social worker, psychiatric nurses, and mental-health clinicians. The team also has special-education teachers for children and adolescents.
20. Comitis Crisis Center
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (303) 341-9160 (office)
Address: 2178 Victor St.
Description: This privately owned nonprofit has been serving youth awaiting placement into permanent residential homes since 1971. Comitis is a short-term residential care facility with a small emergency housing area for homeless kids. It helps get people off the streets and into low-income housing. Its main mission is to care for runaway and throwaway kids.
21. Community Reach Center
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (303) 853-3500
Address: 8931 Huron St.
Description: Founded in 1957, this center has been serving Adams County residents with emergency and outpatient mental-health needs. About 4,000 people a year receive treatment for such things as anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and family issues. It also has five outpatient offices, in Brighton, Commerce City, Thornton, Northglenn, and Westminster.
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Address: 8405 Church Ranch Blvd.
23. Jefferson Center for Mental Health
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (303) 425-0300
Address: 4581 Independence St.
Description: A wide variety of mental-health services are offered, including counselors in schools, an older adult program, several residential areas for inpatient services, and 24-hour emergency services. In all, Jefferson Center operates 16 satellite locations in Jefferson, Gilpin, and Clear Creek Counties.
24. Bridges Integrative Health and Wellness
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (303) 425-2262
Address: 8098 W. 38th Ave.
Description: Bridges is the only hospital-based center of its kind in the Denver metro area. It is a joint project of Exempla Healthcare and Lutheran Medical Center Community Foundation. Services range from massage and acupuncture to nutrition counseling, holistic counseling, and a wellness nurse consultation. Its mission is to offer complementary therapies that can be combined with traditional medicine, offering patients the best of both worlds and nourishing the mind, body, and soul. All practitioners meet the professional credential standards for their specialties.Bridges also offers classes and workshops to the public, including yoga and meditation, as well as lectures on complementary healing topics.
25. East West Health Centers
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (303) 694-5757
Address: 8200 E. Belleview, Ste. 202C
Description: This center includes more than 20 practitioners, including an internist and family physician, with both Eastern and Western specialties. Western services include family and sports medicine, preventive medicine, geriatric care, physical therapy, counseling, and OB/GYN. Eastern offerings include acupuncture, herbology, naturopathy, chiropractics, massage, Rolfing, nutrition education, exercise prescription, and stress management.
26. Progressive Health Center
City: Denver, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (303) 788-9399
Address: 701 Hampden Ave., #225
Description: Integrating both nontraditional (Eastern) and traditional (Western) approaches to health and healing, this center offers a wide variety of therapies and treatments, including craniosacral therapy, acupuncture, reflexology, yoga, therapeutic massage, ayurveda, personal training, and meditation. Their Cancer Care Initiative, in conjunction with Swedish Medical Center, combines traditional therapies with nutrition, fitness, massage, acupuncture, pain management, and other comprehensive services. Through their various areas of expertise, the 16 practitioners here provide an integrative approach to wellness and health.