2021: A Year-in-Review
A look into the performance, impact and reach of our southern Colorado hospital
HOSPITAL COLORADO, COLORADO SPRINGS
CHILDREN’S
In May 2019, we opened the doors of Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs to the community, giving tens of thousands of kids and families in southern Colorado convenient access to world-class pediatric health care. Philanthropy played an integral role in opening this new hospital, and commutnity support continues to be important as we expand services and offerings to meet the needs of our growing region.
As a nonprofit hospital, we are committed to providing all children with the very best care and outcomes, regardless of a family’s ability to pay. Children’s Colorado is a preferred destination for military members with children in the “Exceptional Family Member Program,” because of the outstanding expertise and depth of care our team can provide. This means that military families who have a child with complex medical needs can be preferentially stationed at bases and posts in Colorado due to their proximity to our hospital and clinics.
“We opened our new hospital in Colorado Springs three years ago to bring the best medical care possible closer to home for kids in southern Colorado. Since then, we have continued to build on that promise. In the time since we opened, we have added 16 new beds at our hospital and expanded our existing outpatient clinics, added new ones and began construction on a new location.”
GREG RAYMOND President, Southern Region
Expert Care for the Kids and Families of Southern Colorado Here for
Total visits across the hospital and all specialty and outpatient clinics in southern Colorado
2,964
4,179
140
3,010
254
Inpatient admissions to the hospital
Surgeries performed 31,045 Emergency Department visits
Number of patients transported to Children’s Colorado, Colorado Springs by Children’s One
Number of people trained by the EMS team in skills such as CPR
Number of learners participating in the Virtual Emergency and Trauma Outreach Symposium 131,00+
You Contributing to a Healthier Community
Treating kids in our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
789
Number of unique patients treated at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders (CCBD) 25
Number of times the Warrior Bell was rung to celebrate the end of chemotherapy
63%
Increased number of CCBD patients taken care of at Children’s Colorado, Colorado Springs between 2019 and 2021
18.3%
Percent of CCBD patients at Children’s Colorado, Colorado Springs covered by TRICARE, compared to 3.5% at the Anschutz Medical Campus
TRICARE is the uniformed services health care program for active-duty service members, active-duty family members, National Guard and Reserve members and their families, retirees and retiree family members, and select others.
44.8%
Proportion of CCBD patients at Children’s Colorado, Colorado Springs covered by Medicaid compared to 36.7% at the Anschutz Medical Campus
Medicaid provides coverage for millions of Americans, including eligible children from low-income families.
25 days
Youngest NICU patient 36
Number of multiples (twins, triplets, etc.) served by the NICU
Average patient stay in the NICU
11.46 oz.
Smallest NICU patient by weight
23 Weeks
More Nights at Home
Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is Caring for Our Region’s Tiniest Patients
Meet the Real “G”
Giovanni (“G”) has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a rare condition affecting physical and intellectual development. This condition can cause cognitive delays, low muscle tone and seizures. The prognosis, however, varies considerably for each patient. Fortunately, Giovanni is making wonderful strides after his military family was transferred to Colorado Springs in 2015 and Giovanni began receiving care at Children’s Colorado. Today, he sees a team of specialists, and through multiple therapies at Children’s Colorado, Giovanni is singing, dancing and surpassing everyone’s expectations of what he would be able to do.
“The new hospital in Colorado Springs has made life SO much easier,” Giovanni’s mom says. “It used to be that one of us would take Giovanni to Denver while the other was with our other three kids, which made life so difficult. Now, it’s much quicker and takes so much less time.”
A real life example of how the southern campus is transforming lives
“The new hospital in Colorado Springs has made life SO much easier.”
Giovanni and his dad, Russell
Children’s Hospital Colorado Ambassador, Giovanni, and his sister
Building Resiliency in Kids
Behavioral health visits to the Emergency Departments across the Children’s Hospital
system
Increase in the number of children who came to the Emergency Departments due to a mental health crisis, compared to pre-pandemic 2019 numbers
Increase in the number of patients seen each month for mental health issues
The number of additional mental health patients who will be served through the new facility planned to open in southern Colorado in fall 2022
The more than 25,000-square-foot facility at 2375 Telstar Drive will be home to pediatric mental health services, including counseling and a daytime partial hospitalization program, where young people can have the benefit of several hours of intensive therapy during the day but can spend the night at home with their families. Bringing these and other services to southern Colorado was accelerated by donors who share our commitment to expanding access to care.
“We see the spectrum, from young elementary-aged kids up through young adults, who are struggling with their mental health and well-being. Thanks to community support, we are going to add new services for these young people and their families in southern Colorado by fall of 2022.”
MICHAEL DISTEFANO, MD Chief Medical Officer, Southern Region
Addressing Youth Mental Health 10,000+
Building Resiliency for Healthy Kids offers 6th graders in participating El Paso County classrooms one-on-one health coaching to develop positive coping
they can address life’s hardships, disappointments and challenges in a healthy way.
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Health
skills, so
6,500+
Colorado pediatric
59%
30%+
Pediatric Mental
Crisis
Children’s Hospital Colorado PMHI Ambassador, Luthien 60+% Proportion of students reporting an increased belief in themselves 1,724 Number of one-on-one coaching sessions 289 Number of children served 12 Number of health coaches For fall
2021:
A Destination for Care
720Number of unique out-of-state patients from 45 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico
“Every day I work in the Emergency Department at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs, I see firsthand the depth of the pediatric mental health crisis facing our community. My husband, Dan, and I choose to donate to Children’s Colorado because we know that it truly makes an impact for the kids, their families and our teams right here in our community.”
AMANDA EGAN
Community-supported Care
Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Children’s Colorado, Colorado Springs All data in this document is from calendar year 2021 unless otherwise noted.
Close to 4,000 gifts, totaling almost $5.5 million, were received from southern Colorado donors or in support of southern Colorado initiatives.
Children’s Hospital Colorado Ambassador, Havana, and her brother
Colorado Springs 111 S. Tejon Street, Suite 309 Colorado Springs, CO 80903
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