Parkview Health System and UCHealth have now accomplished the steps wanted for his or her deliberate partnership and decided Parkview and its workers will be part of UCHealth on December 1, 2023.

The efficient date was decided following the completion of intensive regulatory, authorized and contractual work, clearing the best way for the partnership to formally start.

“I am excited to be moving forward on this important partnership to stabilize Parkview and protect jobs in Pueblo,” mentioned Darrin Smith, Parkview president and CEO. “As our community knows, we serve a very large number of patients who are either uninsured or who are covered by Colorado Medicaid. This has strained our finances and risked the sustainability of some of our services. Joining UCHealth will help ensure that our patients in Pueblo and southern Colorado continue to have access to excellent health care.”

UCHealth has dedicated to investing within the hospitals and clinics inside Parkview Health System together with Parkview Medical Center and Parkview Pueblo West Hospital. On December 1, Parkview’s present workers will turn into UCHealth workers, and each organizations are dedicated to minimizing any disruptions to affected person care.

“While this will be a change for Parkview, our employees and providers, we will ensure that our patients continue to receive excellent, high-quality care. We will always put our patients first,” mentioned Smith.

About Parkview Health System

Founded in 1923, Parkview Health System in Pueblo, Colorado, gives normal acute well being care and well being specialty providers. As a non-public, non-profit group, Parkview is licensed for 350 beds and supplies a broad vary of well being care providers together with a verified Level III Trauma Center together with distinctive complete cardiac and orthopedic care. Parkview Health System is the chief in all service traces in our service space. As an important healthcare supply, Parkview’s service space contains Pueblo County and 14 surrounding counties, which collectively characterize 370,000 complete lives.

Parkview Health System is the most important non-government, nonprofit, non-public sector employer in Pueblo County with roughly 3,000 workers and supplies a talented medical employees of over 370 physicians. The impression of our workforce triggers a powerful impression on the neighborhood as Parkview’s annual payroll contributes $232 million to the financial system.

About UCHealth

UCHealth is an progressive, nonprofit well being system that delivers the best high quality medical care with a wonderful affected person expertise. UCHealth contains 30,000 workers, 12 acute-care hospitals and tons of of physicians throughout Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska. With University of Colorado Hospital on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus as its tutorial anchor and the one grownup tutorial medical heart within the area, UCHealth is devoted to offering unmatched affected person care within the Rocky Mountain West. Offering greater than 150 clinic places, UCHealth supplies in depth community benefits and pushes the boundaries of drugs by means of superior therapies and scientific trials, bettering well being by means of innovation.