Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colo., is a non-profit, acute-care hospital.
Here are 10 things to know about Exempla Lutheran Medical Center.
1. Grant Wicklund serves as president and CEO.
2. Karen Scremin serves as vice president of finance.
3. The hospital has 364 beds.
4. The hospital has 1,682 total employees.
5. In 2011, the hospital performed 5,200 inpatient surgeries, 2,700 outpatient surgeries and 1,800 births, and had 65,200 outpatient visits, 24,500 non-admitted emergency department visits and 19,000 admitted emergency department visits.
6. In 2011, the hospital recorded $1.3 billion in gross charges and $27 million in net income, according to the American Hospital Directory.
7. In 2013, the hospital received a Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence from Healthgrades.
8. Lutheran Medical Center began in 1905 as a sanitarium, and by 1962 had evolved into an acute-care, community hospital.
9. The hospital's 700 volunteers give over 95,000 hours of service annually.
10. The hospital was originally founded as a tent colony for tuberculosis patients.
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Here are 10 things to know about Exempla Lutheran Medical Center.
1. Grant Wicklund serves as president and CEO.
2. Karen Scremin serves as vice president of finance.
3. The hospital has 364 beds.
4. The hospital has 1,682 total employees.
5. In 2011, the hospital performed 5,200 inpatient surgeries, 2,700 outpatient surgeries and 1,800 births, and had 65,200 outpatient visits, 24,500 non-admitted emergency department visits and 19,000 admitted emergency department visits.
6. In 2011, the hospital recorded $1.3 billion in gross charges and $27 million in net income, according to the American Hospital Directory.
7. In 2013, the hospital received a Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence from Healthgrades.
8. Lutheran Medical Center began in 1905 as a sanitarium, and by 1962 had evolved into an acute-care, community hospital.
9. The hospital's 700 volunteers give over 95,000 hours of service annually.
10. The hospital was originally founded as a tent colony for tuberculosis patients.
If you have additional information you'd like included on the hospital featured above, or would like to recommend a hospital to be profiled in the future, please contact Lindsey Dunn, editor in chief, Becker's Hospital Review at ldunn@beckershealthcare.com.