Healthcare

Parker has the benefit of two new hospitals and a brand new medical university, all located convenient to our residents and businesses.  Parker Adventist Hospital and Sky Ridge Medical Center greatly expand the nearby services available to our community.

Parker Adventist Hospital
The first, Parker Adventist Hospital, was built by Centura Health.  This impressive $100 million hospital encompasses the best of healthcare from around the world and sits on a 40-acre campus at the southeast corner of South Parker Road and E-470 in Parker.  The hospital opened in February, 2004, and features a Level III trauma center, full-service surgical suites, full diagnostic, imaging, and cardiac care, among other services.

Flexible intensive care units, corridor designs, bed arrangements and other features help eliminate recent problems that many metro Denver hospitals encounter.

Large, 240-square-foot patient rooms with mountain views provide space for patients, their families and caregivers. A therapeutic courtyard and outdoor dining overlooking a pond provide a healing environment.

Some of the 250 to 300 employees initially hired by Centura Health were cross-trained to operate in a more flexible environment where patients won't have to be moved from one location to another.

The hospital has an adjoining 83,000-square-foot medical office building (MOB), which remains 100% occupied.  There are currently plans to expand the MOB facilities on the Crown Point campus in the next couple of years.  Parker Adventist will easily expand to 200 beds in a second phase.  Hospital officials envision 417 beds in four or five decades as they plan to provide healthcare services for Parker, Aurora, Elizabeth, Franktown, Castle Rock, and other communities southeast of Denver.

Sky Ridge Medical Center
HealthONE has built a $147 million, seven-story hospital on 42.5 acres on the southwest corner of I-25 and Lincoln Avenue, just west of Parker.  Sky Ridge Medical Center provides much-needed services in the fastest growing county in the state.

The upscale full-service hospital houses full-range surgical suites, obstetrical services and a Level II nursery, a cancer center, and a Level III ER/Trauma Department with a helipad.

Initially housing 106 beds, the hospital will be capable of eventually expanding to 335 beds.

Centennial Medical Plaza
Expansion of HealthONE's Centennial Medical Plaza, located on the southwest corner of Arapahoe Road and Jordan Road, added to the number of emergency room and short-term-stay beds, and expanded the radiology and laboratory services available to members of the Parker community.

Rocky Vista University

This newly constructed Rocky Vista University campus is located in the Town of Parker and County of Douglas, Colorado and includes state-of-the-art technology, A.V. capabilities and educational support which is evident throughout the approximately 145,000 square feet of campus and buildings of the University.  Future plans include development consisting of 50,000 additional square feet of facilities in Phase Two and up to 150,000 square feet of campus resources during Phase Three.  The Parker campus, currently consisting of 20 acres, is scheduled to be 40 acres with the development of additional health care colleges at the University.  The college has been granted provisional accreditation from the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation; an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education and by the Colorado Commission for Higher Education to deliver professional osteopathic medical education and grant degrees.  The faculty and staff of Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine (RVUCOM) are committed to osteopathic philosophy and heritage, and to advancing the science and the art of the practice of osteopathic medicine.  With the matriculation of RVUCOM's first class the university employs more than 80 physicians, professors, researchers and ancillary staff.