Lutheran Medical Center | |
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Intermountain Health | |
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Geography | |
Location | 8300 West 38th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States |
Coordinates | 39°46′06″N 105°05′25″W / 39.76831°N 105.09018°W |
Organization | |
Type | General |
Services | |
Emergency department | Level II trauma center |
Beds | 543 [1] |
History | |
Opened | 1905 |
Links | |
Website |
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Lists | Hospitals in Colorado |
Lutheran Medical Center is a hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
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]