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The Telluride Medical Center has provided medical care to the people of Telluride since 1978. As we approach our 30th anniversary we continue to strive towards providing the highest quality and most comprehensive care possible.

Board certified Physicians in Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine; nationally certified 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.

Contact Us: 500 W Pacific Ave Telluride, CO 81435 (970) 728-3848

Services

The Telluride Medical Center has provided medical care to the people of Telluride since 1978. As we approach our 30th anniversary we continue to strive towards providing the highest quality and most comprehensive care possible.

Board certified Physicians in Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine; nationally certified 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.

Additional services include CT scans, ultrasound, laboratory services and worker's compensation services.

The following is a list of Physicians who provide services and office visits at the Telluride Medical Center. Patients can see these physicians at the TMC by calling the physician offices directly to schedule an appointment.

Alpine Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Clinic PC.- 970-641-6788
Gloria Beim, MD

Paul Roache, MD
112 W Spencer Ave Suite A
Gunnison, Co. 81230
Shoulder and Knee Surgery, Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy

Western Slope Orthopaedics - 970-249-6641
Vineet Singh, MD

Thomas Dwyer, MD

C. Kelly Bynum, MD
910 S. Fourth St.
Montrose, Co. 81401-4226

Durango Orthopedic Associates, PC - 970-247-5362
Jim Youssef, MD

Richard Lawton, MD
1 Mercado St., Suite 200 and 202
Durango, Co. 81301
Spine Surgery

Montrose Midwives: 970-252-2542

645 S 5th #9

Montrose, CO 81401

Podiatry: (970) 252-3470

Cal Baize, DPM

816 S. Fifth St

Montrose, CO 81401

Pain Management: 970-382-9500

Cyril Bohachevsky, MD

1 Mercado St., Suite 202
Durango, Co. 81301

Dentistry: 970-728-4336

Gary Conrad, DDS

500 W Pacific Ave

Telluride, CO 81435

General Surgery and Laproscopic Surgery: 970-240-4200

Richard Holmes, MD

154 S Colorado Ave Suite #2

Montrose, CO 81401

Rocky Mt Urology Associates: 970-928-0808

Brian Murphy, MD

1830 Blake Ave # 206

Glenwood Springs, CO 81601

Dermatology: 970-728-3848

Shoshanna Pollack, MD

1777 Hamburg Turnpike Suite 102

Wayne, NJ 07470

Cardiology: 970-728-3848

Mark Rosenthal, MD

1777 Hamburg Turnpike Suite 102

Wayne, NJ 07470

Physicians and Staff

Telluride Medical Center
500 W. Pacific Ave.
P.O. Box 1229, Telluride, CO 81435
(970) 728-3848
(970) 728-3404 fax

General Medical Center Contact
info@tellmed.org

Gordon Reichard
Administrator

(970) 728-9782
administration@tellmed.org

Providers:

Sharon Grundy, MD
Board Certified in Internal Medicine

Kent D. Gaylord, MD

Board Certified in Family Practice

Peter Hackett, MD

Board Certified in Emergency Medicine

Dan Hehir, MD Chief of Staff

Board Certified in Emergency Medicine

Diana Koelliker, MD

Board Certified in Emergency Medicine

Paul Koelliker, MD

Board Certified in Emergency Medicine

Laura A. Cattell, PA-C
Physician's Assistant
Eric C. Johnson, MS, FNP
Family Nurse Practitioner

Nursing/MA/EMT Staff:
Rebecca Reichard, RN, Nurse Manager

Dawn Atherton, RN

Melissa Tuohy, RN

Kristina Anderson, RN

Randall Koehn, RN

John Warning, RN

Jason Cleckler, RN

Betsy Meunnich, RN

Tammy Larson, RN

Paula Holman, RN

Janice Heasty, RN

Bob Eakle, RN

Lee Johnson, LP

Becky Padilla, MA

Radiologic Technologists:
Cheryl Fitzhugh, RT
Bob Cronebaugh, RT

Natalie Cronebaugh, RT

Jonathan Godsiak, RT

Business Office:

Pam McCreedy, CPC

Julie Wesseling, CPA Financial Manager

Beth Kuperman

Reva Saunders

Anji Sawant

Sarah Pliml

Lori Golzar

Terri Mahannah

Human Resources:

Nan Dudek

Facility/IT Management:

Eric Adolphi, NR-EMT Intermediate

Volunteer Coordinator/Community Liason

Barbara Newby

Board of Directors

Bill Grun, President

Alexandra Dujardin, Secretary

Albert Roer, Treasurer

Allen Solomon, MD

Mark O'Dell

News Friday, August 10, 2007 Telluride Hospital District thinking big for the future

Published: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:37 PM CST

2007 Strategic Plan outlines host of improvements, expansions By Katie Klingsporn

The Telluride Medical Center is a small facility that often runs at full capacity and has little opportunity for 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.

“Basically, what I want to tell you is that the medical center is moving forward on a number 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.

After exploring the options of remodeling the current facility, building a new facility at its current site and 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.

“The most pragmatic option is clearly building a new facility on a new site,” he said.

Now the issue is pinpointing that site, a task the hospital district will embark on as early as this spring, Grun said.

“We’re starting now to pursue the idea of a new facility on a new site,” he said.

And as far as funding the undertaking, he said, the district expects to rely heavily on the philanthropic 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.

However, demographic, economic and seasonal characteristics of Telluride create unique conditions 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.

In order to determine which are appropriate for the new facility, the hospital district plans on evaluating the demand, medical benefit, financial impact and other factors of each to determine which make sense.

And in order to fortify its services and tap into some outside benefits, the hospital district hopes to forge 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.

A relationship like this could provide access to expanded clinical resources, more specialists and 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.

This facility will put Telluride on the map in the medical community and offer the community an exciting new initiative, Grun said.