Embargo: Jan. 1, 2013 Contact: Dan Weaver: 720-441-7050
[email protected] University of Colorado Health Announces Big Expansion Into Wyoming Fast-growing new system launches affiliation agreement with Ivinson Hospital in Laramie, Wyoming Aurora, Colo. (Jan. 1, 2013) – University of Colorado Health (UCHealth) and Ivinson Hospital in Laramie, Wyoming have entered into a management agreement that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2013. Under the agreement, Ivinson, which traces its roots to 1917, will become an affiliate of UCHealth but will remain an independent hospital run by the seven-member board of the Albany County Hospital District. The agreement, which was signed in October, allows Ivinson and University of Colorado Health to share expertise and resources. It also further establishes UCHealth, with some 15,000 employees and 1,500 beds, as an emerging medical and economic powerhouse. “Affiliating with University of Colorado Health gives us at Ivinson a vast network of experts and knowledge to add to our own, some of the best medical and health care delivery minds in America, increased market power in managing the risings costs of care, and still more muscle in meeting the special challenges of rural and community care,” said Carol Dozier, Ivinson’s president and CEO. “We are looking forward to working more closely with the Laramie community and with the doctors, nurses and staff at Ivinson,” said Rulon Stacey, president of University of Colorado Health. “Together, we’ll grow Ivinson’s already strong dedication to quality and patient care.” Stacey pointed out that UCHealth, which did not exist at this time last year, now has close to 15,000 employees and stretches from venerable Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, through the Denver metro area to University of Colorado Hospital, and into northern Colorado to Poudre Valley Hospital and Medical Center of the Rockies.