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 When you join Exempla Healthcare, you will help continue a heritage that began more than 130 years ago. Back then, we were pioneers providing the community with the best healthcare available. Today we continue to innovate and to extend our original mission of delivering high quality, compassionate care to our growing communities.
Exempla Healthcare is a not-for-profit community-based organization sponsored by the LMC Community Foundation and the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System. We number 8,500 employees, volunteers and affiliated physicians and operate primarily through our two main facilities, as follows:
Located in midtown Denver, Colorado, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital is a renowned teaching hospital, the first of its kind in Denver, that is dedicated to providing excellent care, especially to the underserved. For the past five years, the hospital has treated more patients than any other acute-care facility in metropolitan Denver in a wide range of areas, including cardiology and open-heart surgery.
We also treat more patients locally in such areas as gastroenterology, general surgery, neonatology, obstetrical, nephrology, orthopedic, pulmonary and rheumatology. Additionally, we deliver more babies than any other hospital in Colorado. Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital has 565 licensed beds and cares for 25,000 inpatients yearly, while outpatient visits approach 110,000
A community-based suburban facility, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center is known for exceptional expertise in a variety of areas. Our expanded Heart Center, which includes an electrophysiology lab and two cardiac catheterization labs, provides state-of-the-art care. We offer a full range of inpatient and outpatient services for cancer patients and feature an expanded Radiology Oncology Department for increased capacity.
For Orthopedic patients, we provide expert total joint and hip replacement procedures, with patient recovery facilitated by our orthopedic-specific Transitional Care Unit. Our Women and Family Services programs provide health education and resources, while our Emergency Department is the second busiest in the metropolitan area. In all, our 429-bed medical center cares for approximately 20,000 inpatients yearly and the number of outpatient visits is nearly 200,000.
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center's operations also include Exempla West Pines, a behavioral health facility, and Exempla Colorado Lutheran Home and Apartments, which provide independent assisted living and skilled nursing for older adults.
 Good Sam opened in December 2004 on an 80-acre site in the community of Lafayette near Denver, Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center will feature 174 spacious patient rooms (with the potential to expand to 350), state-of-the-art equipment and units designed for efficient function.
Staffed initially with more than 700 healthcare professionals, the $175-million, four-story building will house a wide range of multi-specialty entities, including Surgical Services, Emergency Department with Urgent Care, Labor and Delivery, Level II Neonatal Care Unit, Cardiovascular Services, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Comprehensive Radiology Services.
The medical campus is also host to two medical office buildings, The Kaiser Permanente Rock Creek Medical Offices and the Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center Community Physicians Pavilion.
Lafayette, a short drive from Denver and Boulder, has modern neighborhoods, easy access to fine restaurants and shopping centers, virtually limitless outdoor recreation and, of course, with the Rocky Mountains nearby-- the breathtaking vistas that only Colorado can provide. The Exempla Good Samaritan campus offers excellent mountain and garden views, walking trails, a healing garden, tranquil waterways and more, all to fashion an environment of healing.
As David Hamm, our President and CEO, states, "Healthcare at its best is not just an occupation-it's a calling. We are here to answer the call for the needs of our community. I will work tirelessly to exceed your expectations as an employer and provide a safe, caring environment for our patients."
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Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital and Exempla Lutheran Medical Center have received 15 major national award in recognition for excellence in care.
 Exempla Lutheran Medical Center was recently named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® by Solucient®, the nation's leading source of healthcare information products. The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in quality of care, operational efficiency, financial performance, and adaptation to the environment. This is the seventh time Exempla Lutheran Medical Center has been recognized with this honor.
Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital has also been named in four categories as one of "America's Best Hospitals" according to US News & World Report. Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital was named by Solucient in its 1999 study Orthopedic Benchmarks for Success, in its 2000 study ICU Benchmarks for Success, and in 2002 for Cardiac Care. Exempla Lutheran Medical Center was also recognized in the separate study by Solucient for outstanding Orthopedic care.
Our mission is simple: to foster healing and health for the community we serve.
Our vision is to be recognized as best in the nation as measured by patients' safety, their satisfaction, employee and physician engagement, clinical excellence, and value. More than simply platitudes, we have instituted meaningful programs specifically designed to involve everyone in the pursuit of this vision and to measure our progress toward this goal.
Our core values are embodied in what we term the Exempla Way. Leading these values is integrity, by which we simply mean doing the right thing. We also seek to foster a welcoming spirit to make all who enter our facilities feel at home, whether they are patients, visitors or employees.
Because we believe in a comprehensive, inclusive approach to healthcare and healing, partnership is another core value. It means involving everyone in the healing process: patients, families, community, physicians, and providers.
We take great pride in doing good work and helping to make healthcare as a whole better. Finally, we believe that good humor is an integral part of the healing process for both patients and care givers. We enjoy one another and our work!
Founded in 1873, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital was the first private teaching hospital in Denver. While Denver was still struggling to become the Territorial Capital, Mother Xavier Ross of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kansas, sent four Sisters to the establishment of hospital work with nine dollars and the challenge: "Look forward for what good there is yet to be."
The March 22, 1899 issue of the Denver Times wrote "The success of the hospital and its rapid growth are due in large measure to the non-sectarian character of the charity, to the high efficiency of the medical staff, and the keen interest which the Sisters take in the work to which they have devoted their lives." A year later, Saint Joseph created a training program for nurses that lasted until 1970.
Extensive equipment was installed during these years, including a brass sterilizing machine, reputed to be the first of its size west of the Mississippi. X-ray equipment was also added, a remarkable accomplishment since the procedure had just been discovered in 1895.
As the community grew, so did the hospital, through the Great Depression and two world wars. Our modern era began in 1961 when ground was broken for the hospital's current twin tower structures, which were dedicated in 1964. A new surgery was added in 1972 and in 1977 the Radiology/Cardiovascular annex was completed. The latest addition, completed in 1997, is the Russell Pavilion, which provides better access to Emergency Services and Radiation Oncology, as well as a state-of-the-art conference center and libraries for healthcare professionals and the community.
Throughout its 130-year heritage, Saint Joseph Hospital has retained its Catholic identity and its commitment to providing medical care to the underserved.
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center began in 1905 as the Evangelical Lutheran Sanitarium, a tent colony for tuberculosis patients, as Colorado's warm, dry climate and clean air made it a natural treatment setting. It was located in the farming community of Wheat Ridge, just a few miles west of Denver's city limits.
As medical advances diminished the demand for tuberculosis treatment, community leaders decided the center should serve Jefferson County, the rapidly growing region connecting metro Denver and the mountains, which had no hospital. That is how, in 1961, community-based Lutheran Hospital came to be-a not-for-profit, general medical facility located on a 100-acre campus. While its name reflected its original ties to the Lutheran denomination, the new hospital was-and is-independent of any church affiliation.
To meet the needs of the growing county, Lutheran Hospital expanded from 220 to 280 beds in 1964. Emergency and outpatient services were also enhanced significantly in 1968. It was during the early 1970s that Lutheran Hospital officially became Lutheran Medical Center (LMC), a change that declared both the organization's growth as a provider and its continued commitment to meeting the health needs of the community.
The Center's physical growth continued as well. In 1973, a six-floor tower was added and with the expansion of the Critical Care Unit in 1985, the number of licensed beds rose to 409, which remains the current capacity level today. The diversity of care we provide today is directly linked to strategic decisions made in recent years, allowing Exempla Lutheran Medical Center to meet existing and emerging challenges, including technological, financial and regulatory, while still providing outstanding, quality patient care.
In January of 1998 Saint Joseph Hospital joined Lutheran Medical Center and Exempla Medical Group to form Exempla Healthcare, a not-for-profit, community-based organization. The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System remains as a sponsor, along with LMC Community Foundation, while Exempla Healthcare manages the hospital's operations. |
