Residents spend a significant portion of their training at Saint Joseph Hospital in downtown Denver, CO. Saint Joseph Hospital was founded in Denver in 1873 by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL) as the first private teaching hospital in Colorado. Today, it remains the largest private teaching hospital in Denver. The hospital provides a tradition of healthcare that includes compassionate caregivers, stellar clinical expertise and active clinical partnerships with Kaiser Permanente, National Jewish Health and community physicians.
Saint Joseph Hospital is part of SCL Health, a nonprofit faith-based health system with eight hospitals, more than 150 physician clinics, and home health, hospice, mental health and safety-net services primarily in Colorado and Montana. Saint Joseph's new state-of-the-art hospital opened in December 2014. It has a fantastic, extensive simulation lab where residents can learn and have ongoing practice of many different inpatient, obstetric and outpatient procedures as well as training leading code blue and rapid response situations.
Our residents work in a variety of settings here including the Emergency Department, Intensive and Intermediate Care Units, Surgical Care, Newborn Nursery/NICU, and Labor and Delivery. Our residents frequently work alongside our resident colleagues in the three other residencies at Saint Joseph Hospital: OB-GYN, Internal Medicine, and General Surgery.