Porter Adventist Hospital
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 Porter Adventist Hospital facts

• Porter Adventist specializes in treating patients with cardiac care, cancer care, joint replacement, behavioral health, spinal care and transplant needs
• Porter is a regional referral center for complex medicine and surgeries such as kidney, liver and pancreas transplants, open-heart surgeries and cancer care
• In 2009, Porter Adventist was recognized as achieving quality care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice by the American Nurses Credentialing Center
• The hospital also was ranked No
• 1 in Colorado (and in the top 10 percent nationally) for overall cardiac care, cardiology services and coronary interventional procedures by HealthGrades, the leading national independent healthcare ratings organization
• Porter employs 1,450 people and has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians and allied health professionals
• The hospital runs a range of community outreach programs including the Kidney Early Evaluation Program, Body of Knowledge Community Seminars, and supports Doctors Care, a program that provides health care to low-income, uninsured Coloradans
• They also donate medications, supplies and staff time to overseas medical missions
• The hospital invests $40 million a year in charity care and underwriting medical care for the uninsured