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Contact Us: 500 W
Pacific Ave Telluride, CO 81435
(970) 728-3848 Services our 30th anniversary we continue to strive towards providing the highest quality and most comprehensive care possible. Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants staff the medical center. We have an all RN nursing staff and nationally certified Radiological Techs with years of experience. Our providers specialize in family and preventative medicine, emergency and orthopedic care, high altitude medicine, and sports medicine. Patients can see these physicians at the TMC by calling the physician offices directly to schedule an appointment.
News Friday, August 10, 2007 Telluride Hospital District thinking big
for the future
expanded or specialized
services.
But the Telluride Hospital District has big ambitions for the medical
center — as well as the overall state of Telluride’s health care
services.
These include finding and constructing
a new medical center facility,
improving and adding services, forging a relationship with a major
regional
hospital and launching a center for high altitude medicine
research.
These lofty goals comprise the highlights
of the district’s
recently-updated strategic plan, which Telluride Hospital District
President Bill Grun
presented to representatives of all three local
governments on Monday.
of initiatives to improve healthcare in the
Telluride region,” Grun said.
The most prominent issue facing
the district is expansion of the
facility, Grun said. The current facility is housed in a diminutive
building
on Pacific Avenue in a mostly-residential neighborhood. The
land is owned by Idarado, and the district
leases the building for the
bargain price of $10 a year.
building a new facility on a new
site, the latter emerged as the most feasible option, Grun said.
The
challenges of trying to expand on what is already a small piece of
land or in an already small building
made those options impractical, he
said.
spring, Grun said.
“We’re starting now to pursue the idea of a new facility on a new site,”
he said.
character of town.
With a new facility comes the opportunity to add new specialty services
such as
pediatrics, neurology, mental health and 4-6 beds for
observation or even in-patient care, Grun said.
for health care. Telluride’s population is
saturated with super-active athletes and visitors and few senior
citizens, it fluctuates with the seasons, and many prefer to leave for
major medical care or surgeries.
Because of these and others, some
services may simply not be utilized if they are added.
the demand, medical benefit,
financial impact and other factors of each to determine which make
sense.
a relationship with a major
regional hospital. The district has its eye on both St. Mary’s Hospital
in
Grand Junction and Mercy Hospital in Durango.
operating benefits, Grun said.
Rounding out the hospital district’s ambitions is the launching of a
center for high altitude medicine research. This new venture will be
directed by local doctor Peter
Hackett and operated by the Telluride
Medical Center in collaboration with the University of Colorado.
exciting new initiative, Grun said.
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