US Hospital Finder™: Denver Health Medical Center


Location:


Name: Denver Health Medical Center

Address: 777 Bannock Street Denver, CO 80204-4507

Phone: 303-436-6000

Number of Beds: 363

Type: Government, Nonfederal

System:

Website: http://www.denverhealth.org

JCAHO Accredited

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Services:

  • Alcohol/Drug Dependncy Care
  • Angioplasty
  • Breast Cancer Screening
  • Cardiac Cath Lab
  • Drug Dependency Care
  • Emergency Department
  • End of Life Services: Hospice Program
  • General Medical Surgical
  • Geriatric Services
  • HIV-AIDS Services
  • Health Screenings
  • Hemodialysis
  • Medical Surgical Intensive Care
  • Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Nutrition programs
  • Occupational Health
  • Oncology
  • Outpatient Care
  • Outpatient Physical Rehab
  • Outpatient surgery
  • Patient Education Center
  • Pediatric Intensive Care
  • Pediatric Medical Surgical
  • Physical Rehabilitation
  • Psychiatric Care
  • Psychiatric Outpatient Services
  • Reproductive Health
  • Sleep Center
  • Support Groups
  • Tobacco Treatment/Cessation
  • Trauma Center
  • Women's Health


Hospital Quality and Rating information

Data based on Health Quality Alliance database

Mortality Rate at Denver Health Medical Center :
Heart Attack Death (Mortality) Rates: 0.0% (Not Available)
Heart Attack Readmission Rates: 0.0% (Not Available)
Heart Failure Death (Mortality) Rates: 0.0% (11.4)
Heart Failure Readmission Rates: 0.0% (24)
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Mortality Rate: 0.0% (10.6)
Pneumonia Readmission Rates: 0.0% (17.7)

Mortality Rate for hospitals in US:
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Mortality Rate: 15%
Heart Failure (HF) 30-Day Mortality Rate: 11%
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Mortality Rate: 12%
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission Rate: 19%
Heart Failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission Rate: 24%
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission Rate: 18%

Mortality Rate for hospitals in Colorado:
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Better than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (No different than U.S. National Rate) : 33 number of hospitals
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Number of Cases Too Small*) : 35 number of hospitals
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Worse than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Better than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (No different than U.S. National Rate) : 32 number of hospitals
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Number of Cases Too Small*) : 32 number of hospitals
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Worse than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Better than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (No different than U.S. National Rate) : 54 number of hospitals
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Number of Cases Too Small*) : 19 number of hospitals
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Worse than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Better than U.S. National Rate) : 4 number of hospitals
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (No different than U.S. National Rate) : 53 number of hospitals
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Number of Cases Too Small*) : 16 number of hospitals
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Worse than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Better than U.S. National Rate) : 4 number of hospitals
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (No different than U.S. National Rate) : 58 number of hospitals
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Number of Cases Too Small*) : 13 number of hospitals
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Mortality Rate: (Worse than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Better than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (No different than U.S. National Rate) : 66 number of hospitals
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Number of Cases Too Small*) : 9 number of hospitals
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission Rate: (Worse than U.S. National Rate) : 0 number of hospitals

How patients rated Denver Health Medical Center
How do patients rate the hospital overall?
  Patients who gave a rating of '6' or lower (low): 8 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Patients who gave a rating of '9' or '10' (high): 69 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Patients who gave a rating of'7' or '8' (medium): 23 % of the patients who have completed the survey
How often did doctors communicate well with patients?
  Doctors 'always' communicated well: 78 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Doctors 'sometimes' or 'never' communicated well: 5 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Doctors 'usually' communicated well: 17 % of the patients who have completed the survey
How often did nurses communicate well with patients?
  Nurses 'always' communicated well: 74 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Nurses 'sometimes' or 'never' communicated well: 7 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Nurses 'usually' communicated well: 19 % of the patients who have completed the survey
How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?
  Patients 'always' received help as soon as they wanted: 58 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Patients 'sometimes' or 'never' received help as soon as they wanted: 13 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Patients 'usually' received help as soon as they wanted: 29 % of the patients who have completed the survey
How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?
  Staff 'always' explained: 63 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Staff 'sometimes' or 'never' explained: 19 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Staff 'usually' explained: 18 % of the patients who have completed the survey
How often was patients pain well controlled?
  Pain was 'always' well controlled: 68 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Pain was 'sometimes' or 'never' well controlled: 7 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Pain was 'usually' well controlled: 25 % of the patients who have completed the survey
How often was the area around patients rooms kept quiet at night?
  'Always' quiet at night: 62 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  'Sometimes' or 'never' quiet at night: 9 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  'Usually' quiet at night: 29 % of the patients who have completed the survey
How often were the patients rooms and bathrooms kept clean?
  Room was 'always' clean: 61 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Room was 'sometimes' or 'never' clean: 16 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Room was 'usually' clean: 23 % of the patients who have completed the survey
Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?
  No, staff 'did not' give patients this information: 18 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  Yes, staff 'did' give patients this information: 82 % of the patients who have completed the survey
Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?
  'NO', patients would not recommend the hospital (they probably would not or definitely would not recommend it): 6 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  'YES', patients would definitely recommend the hospital: 69 % of the patients who have completed the survey
  'YES', patients would probably recommend the hospital: 25 % of the patients who have completed the survey

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On Wed Feb 16 14:19:32 +0000 2011, Deanne_D posted the following review:

I've used this place for a lot of visits. Nearly every single messed up in one way or another - anything from lab tests vanishing to the more frequently appearing patient neglect.

I had to stop going there, & stop using their neighborhood clinics as well, because I was repeatedly encountering being left sick. Examples:

** Had strep throat that turned into adult rheumatic fever whose major symptom was temporary severe chronic arthritis. All they did was say "Take aspirins" - for several months??? And no follow ups since that kind of dosing can put you at big risk of stomach bleeding?? Crazy. And to give aspirins at all?? Even crazier.

Why crazy?? Because I got tired of being 'stuck with arthritis' so bad I had to crawl on the floor at home to reach the bathroom to take a pee. So, after 4 long months of this, I decided to see someone not affiliated with them - when my doctor there heard what they did, he mouth dropped and he said, "I can't believe it. All you need is penicillin for strep throat". Well, I took the medicine for 10 days and was back to normal!!!! That after 4 months of horrid, crippling pain those people left me with, not counting risk of stomach bleeding?! CRAZY!

** Once I had horrible severe bronchitis. It literally was taking my breath away - my breathing was extremely rapid, and much more rapid than if I had just ran a mile really really fast. Yes, it was **that** bad. And it wouldn't quit! I was like this for an hour at home, then went over there for help. Wondered if I may have pneumonia or worse. When I got into an exam room in the E.R., guess what I got - nothing. Not even examined!!!!! Nothing, nada... they simply asked me, "What are your symptoms?", then the person left. After a while, the person came back in and asked me again and left the room. After sitting a long time, one more person came in, asking me the same thing, and left. Then after waiting and waiting and waiting, they discharged me!!!!

I wasn't even examined. No exam? "This is a bad place", I thought to myself, so I walked..yes walked..to another hospital's E.R. which was really super close by. I barely made it there, stopping every 15 feet so I could try to catch my breath. Breathing was horribly hard to do. It was 3 am and I had no cell phone, no $$ to call 911 for help, and every place was closed! So I was doomed to walk there-I had no choice in it, "and all because they wouldn't even examine me", I kept muttering to myself.

I made it there though, luckily for me. They examined me, gave me IV's of things, and didn't send me home till I was in the clear. Now *that's caring for a patient!

** I had uterus fibroids once that caused my period to bleed really bad - when I say bad, I mean I ended up needing a transfusion. The bleeding was at home. After I got there, they gave me blood and then gave me Progesterone pills to keep the bleeding at bay for 30 days, then afterward I was seen for outpatient follow up. I then got Lupron shots once a month which was to put me into temporary menopause - this was to shrink the fibroids down from grapefruit size so it'd be small enough to remove the uterus via a Laproscopic surgery. I had opted for the hysterectomy to solve it as opposed to just taking the fibroids out, fyi.

After the 6 months of Lupron shots were done, I was given an ultrasound which confirme the fibroids were small enough - they were. But I changed my mind about the surgery and opted to try the other option they mentioned - take birth control every month because it may keep the fibroids small and that'll end that (fibroids are fed by too much estrogen, they said, so balancing it out with birth control may do the trick).

Well, I started on the birth control pills. Took them a few months. The bleeding started and got worse over a few months on the pills. Finally I went back in because of it and because it was making me feel horribly weak, I couldn't even walk 1/2 a block without needing to stop and rest. They measured my blood - the crit was 30. A normal adult should be 38-42. This meant I was running around bleeding to the point I was 'lacking blood'! This was why I was so weak it hard to even walk every far! (I checked this via other doctors). Despite this finding, did they do one thing? - even one thing about it?? NOPE. They just said 'just go home'. They left me that way. Just left me bleeding to the point of weakness. Finally, after a while I gave up on them for good and saw another hospital. They gave me Progesterone to stop the bleeding - "Now that's more like it!", I thought to myself!!!!! I decided to go for the hysterectomy, it was scheduled at the new hospital... and the rest is history. ----------------- There were more situations of patient neglect that were *severe* like these, which I had before I finally stopped using them, but I can't list them all here due to lack of typing space.


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