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Craig Hospital |
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3425 South Clarkson Street |
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Englewood |
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Colorado |
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USA |
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80113 |
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303 789 8000 |
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khosack@craighospital.org |
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Specialization Of Craig Hospital
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Obestetrician/Gynecologist |
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About Craig Hospital
Craig Hospital in Denver, Colorado is world renowned as a premier center for specialty rehabilitation and research for people with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury.
Craig is a 93-bed, private, not-for-profit, free-standing, acute care and rehabilitation hospital that provides a comprehensive system of inpatient and outpatient medical care, rehabilitation, neurosurgical rehabilitative care, an equipment company, and long-term follow up services. Nearly half of Craig's patients come from outside of Colorado, and in 2008 the hospital treated patients from 47 states and several foreign countries. At any given time Craig treats approximately 50-55 inpatients with spinal cord injury, 25-30 with traumatic brain injury, and 50-60 outpatients. Craig provides housing for out-of-state families and outpatients, including the first 30 days free for families of new inpatients.
Craig Hospital is designated by the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research (NIDRR) as a Model System Center for both spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. Craig is also the NIDRR National Statistical TBI database for the other model system centers (2006-2011). Craig has been ranked in the top Ten Rehabilitation Hospitals in the nation for 19 consecutive years by U.S. and World Report since the rankings began in 1990. Craig has a remarkable atmosphere and culture that is casual but professional, active and upbeat.
System of Care
The hospital's comprehensive system of care begins at the onset of injury, continues through initial rehabilitation, and can assist through a lifetime of follow-up care. Unique sharing arrangements with the Denver area's leading trauma facilities and consultants enable the hospital to offer a full range of clinical and support services. Craig coordinates land and air medical transportation to the hospital as necessary. As a licensed acute care hospital, Craig can accept newly injured patients. With early intervention, our team can prevent complications and make pivotal decisions about medical and rehabilitative interventions.
Interdisciplinary Approach
Each patient and family has a consistent interdisciplinary treatment team of professionals that includes the physician, nurses, physical therapist, occupational therapist, patient and family service counselor, therapeutic recreation specialist, psychologist, dietitian, and when necessary, speech and language pathologist, neuropsychologist, respiratory therapist, and others. The team meets regularly with the patient and family to set goals, develop treatment plans, review progress, and coordinate services needed at home following discharge. Craig provides a highly individualized and personal approach to treatment, focusing on the patient's physical, cognitive, and psychological well-being. Craig sets high expectations for patient participation in therapy and helps patients set high expectations for themselves.
Community Focus
Craig Hospital is located in beautiful Colorado, where the sun shines more than 300 days per year and the low humidity allows many of our therapies and activities to be held outdoors. For example, our therapists regularly take patients into the community and the mountains for valuable, real-life learning experiences, such as navigating streets, rough terrain, and public buildings, and interacting with the public, etc. Therapeutic recreation specialists also help patients develop lifelong leisure pursuits and activities. Rehabilitation is serious, but keeping fun in the process helps our patients stay motivated and active following injury.
Powerful Peer Group
One of the most important benefits of Craig Hospital is the opportunity for patients with similar ages, backgrounds, and injuries to teach, encourage, and support one another. At any given time, Craig has approximately 50 inpatients with SCI, and 25 inpatients with TBI. Families also learn from each other and form supportive relationships. This interactive education among peer groups significantly supplements what patients and families learn from the treatment staff, and is an extremely valuable benefit of specialized rehabilitation. Graduates of Craig and their families consistently credit some of their success to what other patients and families taught them, and friendships developed at Craig often last for life.
Family Involvement
Craig has always believed that family members are important to a patient's rehabilitation, and we have designated staff with relatively small caseloads to assist families. Counselors assist families with their adjustment to injury, understanding insurance policies, application for public benefits, and discharge planning. Craig has no restrictions on visiting hours- families are encouraged to attend therapies and be part of the team. To underscore our commitment to families, Craig offers 30 free days of apartment housing close by during initial inpatient rehabilitation. Longer stays can be arranged at a low cost.
Patient and Family Education
Patient and family education are highly emphasized. Craig has produced a vast library of educational resources available only to our patients and families, including SCI and TBI textbooks, 35 on-demand videos, 320 master tapes, and three dozen patient education handouts, as well as patient and family education groups. Craig Hospital is committed to providing a culturally sensitive working and patient environment. The hospital provides interpreter and language assistive services to patients and families. Education materials may be available in the patient's preferred written or verbal language. Craig Hospital staff receives training in cultural competency. Part of Craig Hospital's caring environment is its sensitivity to the specific needs of our patients, families, and staff.
Communication is a key component of our programs. Regular conferences involving the patient, family members, physician, treatment team, and insurance representatives are a standard practice. We encourage active involvement from the patient's case manager and insurance representatives during the rehabilitation and discharge process, and we provide ongoing written and verbal updates and documentation throughout the patient's treatment.
Inpatient and Outpatient
Patients typically stay in the inpatient program two to four months. Length of stay is individualized based on diagnosis, severity of injury, rate of progress, and possible complications. Initial rehabilitation often involves a period of transitional living where patients and families live together and learn their care prior to discharge. The experience in our state-of-the-art transitional suites helps patients and families to go home prepared and confident.
Although almost all of our patients return home after discharge, life with a spinal cord or traumatic brain injury may require long-term follow-up services. Craig provides periodic consultations, clinic checks, comprehensive re-evaluations, and ongoing educational support for our former patients and their families. Through decades of research, we understand the long-term needs and treatments associated with aging with a disability. We also can help patients update equipment, and our rehabilitation engineering department can customize equipment not available commercially.
Staff Longevity
Craig is highly respected for its staff longevity. The long tenure of staff is a tribute to Craig's leadership, and results in remarkable expertise and quality services. Department Directors average 19 years at Craig, Craig's nine attending physicians average 18 years at Craig, therapists average 13 years at Craig, and nurses average 9 years at Craig. Patients and families report 95% good to excellent satisfaction with their Craig experience.
Research
The hospital's large research department has been conducting spinal cord injury and brain injury research for decades, and along with clinicians have published textbooks and numerous articles that are recognized as key resources in the medical and rehabilitation literature. More recently Craig's Center for Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Research has begun pioneering cutting edge neuroscience research toward restorative therapies for central nervous system injuries. Craig is collaborating with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden on stem cell research in animals. Several other medication trials are also underway.
** MISSION STATEMENT **
Craig Hospital’s Mission Statement is:
"To promote optimal health and quality of life for people affected by spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury."
** CORE VALUES **
* Foster independence in those we serve
* Create an environment of peer support
* Develop a family atmosphere where caring for others is contagious
* Provide each patient and family individualized care through teamwork and collaboration
* Educate others about all aspects of life with spinal cord or brain injury
* Put fun into the process of rehabilitation
** OUR COMMITMENT **
Our exclusive dedication to patients with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury will remain constant, as will our commitment to value, excellence, and caring. We will continue to set the standard for quality patient outcomes and service, and as always, help patients and their families achieve their greatest possible levels of independence.
We know that when we assist patients to become independent and productive, it is in their best interest, as well as the best interest of their employer, the insurance company, taxpayers, and society as a whole. We will also be a resource to our former patients and to the professional community through publications, presentations, and consultations.
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History Of Craig Hospital
* 1907- Frank Craig starts the "Tent Colony of Brotherly Love" on the plains in Lakewood west of Denver for indigent men with tuberculosis.
* 1916- The first of three building were constructed, by 1921 there were 48 cottages, and by 1923 there were two additional buildings on W. Colfax St.
* 1919- The name of the Tent Colony was changed to "Craig Colony" in memory of Frank Craig, who died of tuberculosis in 1914 at the age of 37.
* 1955- As tuberculosis declined with antibiotics, Craig shifted its emphasis to multiple diagnoses, MS, polio, MD, and SCI.
* 1957- Dr. John Young, M.D. arrives at Craig as Medical Director nd intensifies Craig's exclusive focus in spinal cord injury and brain injury rehabilitation. Dr. Young is regarded as the Founder of the modern Craig, and his vision responsible for the success of Craig.
* 1958- Craig is renamed "Craig Rehabilitation Center" and constructs a major addition to the hospital for rehabilitation.
* 1959- After serving Native Americans for years, Craig signs a contract with the U.S. Public Health Service Bureau of Indian Affairs, to serve Native Americans with spinal cord injury at Craig, and establishes a four-time per year clinic in Gallup, N.M. for long-term follow-up care for patients in Arizona and New Mexico.
* 1966- Craig is renamed "Craig Rehabilitation Hospital".
* 1968- Dr. Young moves to Phoenix, and Robert R. Jackson MD becomes medical director. Dr. Jackson is credited with Craig's rejuvenated financial health through his advocacy with national insurance carriers as to the value of quality specialized rehabilitation.
* 1969- Governor John Love proclaims March 9-15 "Craig Rehabilitation Hospital Week in Colorado" in recognition of "the hospital's many contributions to state, regional, and national health care for the severely disabled". 1970- Craig moves from Lakewood to Englewood and builds an 80- bed rehabilitation hospital on the grounds of Swedish Hospital, connected to Swedish by a tunnel to access radiology, laboratory, surgery, and other ancillary services.
* 1970- Craig begins in-house neurosurgical program with Robert Edgar, MD.
* 1973- Craig modified apartments across the street for transitional living experiences for patients, and for families of inpatients.
* 1973- Craig becomes one of the federally-designated SCI Model Systems Centers in the U.S., and begins enrolling patients in 1974.
* 1974- Current President Denny O'Malley starts first year as President of Craig.
* 1974- Designed by Harry R. Hahn, M.D., Craig opens the shared Neurotrauma Unit at Swedish Hospital- one of the first models of its kind with both intensive medical care and early rehabilitation therapy, with a Craig physician, Swedish nurses, Craig and therapists.
* 1975- Craig is renamed "Craig Hospital" by the Board to reflect the medical and rehabilitation services provided.
* 1975- Craig therapeutic recreation staff play major in international wheelchair athletics, and fourteen Craig athletes compete in National Wheelchair Athletic Association Games.
* 1977- The Traumatic Brain Injury Team is created distinct from the Spinal Cord Injury teams under the direction of Harry Hahn, MD and soon after is intensely developed by by Mark Cilo, M.D.
* 1978- Craig and "Pete" Peterson, MD intensify treatment and study of ventilator-dependent patients, high quadriplegia, and publish a leading text The Management of High Quadriplegia in 1989, and a national seminar in 1980.
* 1980- With administrative support, Craig Hospital staff were instrumental in the creation and early development of the Colorado Head Injury Foundation, later the Brain Injury Association of Colorado, which was responsible for the first statewide TBI Report to the Governor in 1987.
* 1980- Craig begins regular SCI Outreach Clinics with physicians and clinicians in Casper, Wyoming and Grand Junction, Colorado. Expanded in 1987 to Pueblo, Colorado as well.
* 1983- Craig finishes 62,00 sq ft building expansion, with a large gymnasium, outpatient clinic, media studio, therapy areas, and department offices.
* 1984- Current Medical Director Daniel P. Lammertse, MD begins first year as Craig's Medical Director.
* 1985- Craig establishes an in-house Neuroscience Lab, with EMG lab, neuromuscular lab, and neurosurgery lab; begins pre-FDA Ergys bike clinical trial.
* 1987- Craig physicians and staff are widely sought for presentations and publications, and average 75 professional presentations per year, and publish 20-25 articles and book chapters per year.
* 1989- U.S. News and World Report begins ranking hospitals, and ranks Craig in Top Ten Rehabilitation Hospitals in the U.S.
* 1991- Craig is trial site in Parastep/FES ambulation clinical trial.
* 1990- Craig staff and Robert Menter, MD intensify study and treatment of aging in spinal cord injury, and publish a leading text Aging in Spinal Cord Injury in 1993.
* 1996- Craig completes a new "transitional" building on the East Side of Clarkson St. with innovative patient-family rooms, adjoining skybridge and multiple treatment areas, research and business space- increases the number of total hospital beds to 93.
* 1996- Scott Falci MD conducts first embryonic spinal cord transplantation in the world for syringomyelia in Stockholm, Sweden, published in J. of Neurotrauma, 1997.
* 1998- Craig becomes a federally-designated TBI Model Systems Center by NIDRR.
* 2002- Craig constructs and opens a new 47 unit Outpatient and Family Housing Facility on-campus for re-evaluation patients and families of inpatients, to replace its aging apartments.
* 2003- Craig constructs and opens an in-house Cell Center with a Class 10,000 Clean Room and becomes first trial site in the U.S. for Proneuron's Phase II Activated Macrophage Clinical Trial.
* 2004- Denny O'Malley celebrates his 30th year as President of Craig. Daniel P. Lammertse, M.D. celebrates his 20th year as Medical Director. The Multitrauma Unit at Swedish is 30 years old.
* 2005- Craig was awarded the prestigious Magnet Status Designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
* 2005- Finalist in El Pomar Joel A.H. Webb Award for Healthcare-Large
* 2006- Was re-awarded TBI Model System Center designation and the TBI National Statistical Data Center by NIDRR for 2006-2011. Was re-awarded SCI Model System Center designation by NIDRR for 2006-2011. Launched www.mycraig.org website exclusively for Craig alumni and their families
* 2007- Celebrated our 100 Year Anniversary of our founding by Frank Craig in 1907. Colorado Biz Magazine "Best Healthcare Company" Award
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