Fort Collins: Health Care

By virtue of the broad scope of medical services available, Fort Collins has become a regional health center. Poudre Valley Hospital has 295 beds, 19 surgical suites, and 23 critical care patient rooms; it is home to a regional heart center, a regional neurosciences center that cares for victims of head and back injury, stroke, spinal cord and nervous system diseases, and a regional orthopedic program. The hospital also offers a surgery center, oncology unit, regional wound care center, a 24-hour emergency department, adult and adolescent psychiatric programs, and a breast diagnostic center. The hospital has a birthing center and Level II nursery, and offers an off-site comprehensive homecare program, home infusion therapy, and comprehensive rehabilitation programs. Poudre Valley Health System added a new ambulatory care center and medical office building (the Harmony Campus) and a mental health and substance abuse facility (Mountain Crest Behavioral Health Center) on the south side of Fort Collins in the spring of 2000 and broke ground on a cardiac and trauma care center (Medical Center of Rockies) in nearby Loveland in March 2004.