LONGMONT, Colo. — UCHealth in Denver is slated to complete construction on the new Longs Peak hospital in Longmont this June. The new hospital will address the healthcare needs of the surrounding and fast-growing populations north and east of Longmont including Niwot, Firestone, Erie, Frederick and Dacono that currently must travel elsewhere to receive care.

This 210,000-square-foot building includes the Longs Peak Hospital and the UCHealth Longs Peak Surgery Center, with a budget of $190 million. The architect on the project is WHR Architects out of Dallas, Texas, and the general contractor is Haselden Construction out of Denver. The new hospital will have 51 inpatient beds with room for 50 more with approximately 80,000 square feet of shelled space for future inpatient needs, according to Dan Robinson, chief executive officer of the new UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital.

The hospital waiting areas on all three floors open to a bright and sunny atrium with 73 feet of glass. All of the stairways are surrounded by windows bringing in natural light, which will encourage people —patients, physicians, visitors and more — to take the stairs instead of the elevators, according to Robinson. All of the post partum rooms have large windows with views of Long’s Peak, and many of the other patient rooms face west, bringing in lots of light. “The orientation of the rooms and the large windows makes the patient rooms warm, inviting and family-friendly,” said Robinson.

The hospital’s architecture uses regional stone and wood building products to maintain a local feel, according to Tushar Gupta, lead designer at WHR Architects. “WHR’s design team is proud to collaborate with UCHealth to create an innovative, welcoming and healing environment for the community,” said Gupta, in a recent statement. “The design establishes a strong visual identity, in distinctive form and native materiality, that will be part of UCHealth’s new facilities throughout the region going forward,” Gupta said.

The entire hospital structure is being built to LEED standards with the use of sustainable building materials, and prefab construction was employed for the project, according to Robinson. “The use of prefab construction was an effort on our part to increase the timeline of the hospital construction, and also to be environmentally responsible,” Robinson said.

The hospital will have an intensive care unit, a level III trauma center and emergency department, and advanced cardiac services. It will have a birthing center with a level II special care nursery, and a heliport for emergency transfers to other acute-care hospitals. There will be lab and imaging services, and a 24 hours a day seven day a week retail pharmacy. Additionally, the hospital will offer premie care, and will provide endoscopic ultrasound amongst other advanced services.

A unique trait of this hospital is a new technology for health care: innovative telehealth services, for internal and external communication. UCHealth is installing a technology for internal communication called “Vocera” which allows physicians, nurses and caregivers to communicate directly with each other without the constant noise and interruption of an overhead paging system.

Additionally, a wireless IT platform called “DocLine” will enable the hospital to communicate with other doctors and facilities outside of the Hospital. Physicians will be able to gain realtime consult from specialists via video telecommunication so that patients, doctors and the outside specialists can have consult right in the patient room. “If our beds are full and we need to admit a patient, we can automatically call the DocLine for the nearest hospital available,” Robinson said. DocLine also has the ability to dispatch ambulances based on the needs of the patient and based on the request of the referring physician, according to Robinson.

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Located on an eight-acre site at the south end of the DMC campus, the $78 million, six-story structure is one of the first in the Great Lake region to offer comprehensive cardiovascular care in a dedicated facility. Before opening the Heart Hospital, all of DMC’s cardiovascular care was provided at DMC Harper University Hospital.

The new hospital specializes in a wide range of minimally invasive treatment options and preventive services.

“Advances in technology now enable us to treat many different heart problems in a minimally invasive way for faster recovery and shorter hospital stays,” said Theodore L. Schreiber, M.D., president of the DMC Cardiovascular Institute and DMC Heart Hospital, in a statement. “With the launch of this world-class facility, designed and dedicated for the care of heart patients with a focus on minimally invasive techniques, DMC is taking another major step toward becoming an internationally recognized center of excellence in cardiovascular medicine.”

The hospital features six catheterization labs and other procedure rooms to perform minimally invasive treatments to open and repair heart arteries, treat heart rhythm abnormalities and restore blood flow to the legs. The facility also has advanced imaging technologies, electrocardiogram and stress testing to diagnose cardiovascular disorders.

The Heart Hospital houses the DMC Cardiovascular Institute, where heart and vascular specialists and interventional cardiologists, known as Cardio Team One, are on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The 215,000-square-foot facility also has a retail pharmacy, physician offices and a new parking structure with more than 1,700 spaces.

“I always wanted to build one of the finest heart facilities in America right here in the city of Detroit. I think the quality of the services at DMC cardiology rival anybody in the country and now the facilities rival anybody,” said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan at the opening ceremony.

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