AdventHealth Littleton

Portercare Adventist Health System doing business as AdventHealth Littleton,[2] is a non-profit hospital campus in Littleton, Colorado, Arapahoe County, United States. It became part of AdventHealth following a merger with PorterCare Adventist Health System in October 2001. The medical facility is a tertiary, comprehensive stroke center, and psychiatric hospital that has multiple specialties.[3][4] In April 2004, the hospital is designated a Level II trauma center by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment[5] and it later was also recognized by the American College of Surgeons in October 2005.[6]

History

In April 1989, Littleton Adventist Hospital became the very first hospital in Littleton, Colorado when it opened with 82 beds.[7][8]

In 1996, Littleton Adventist Hospital became part of the joint venture Centura Health when it was founded by PorterCare Adventist Health System and Catholic Health Initiatives.[9][10]

In August 2001, construction began on a 130000 sqfoot expansion for $40 million to add thirty-two beds, two operating theatres and an augment radiology department and to double the size of the emergency department.[11]

On October 1, 2001, PorterCare Adventist Health System merged with Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation after approval from the Federal Trade Commission.[12]

On December 6, 2004, Littleton Adventist Hospital announced that it would expand for $38 million, by adding three stories to its south tower. It would be adding twenty-four intensive care unit beds and thirty-two surgical beds, increasing the hospitals beds to 231. The expansion would be 85100 sqfoot and have shell space for future expansion. Construction began in February 2005.[13][14]

In early November 2014, there was a groundbreaking for a oncology center on campus.[15] It is being built for Seavest Healthcare Properties, LLC.[16][17] In 2015, Little Adventist Hospital began a renovation and expansion project for $30 million. It renovated its lobby and its atrium. It also renovated and expanded its pre-operation and post-operation surgery rooms and interventional radiology.[18]

In late 2017, the Colorado Senate passed a law requiring all hospitals to have their chargemaster on its website by January 1, 2018.[19][20][21] The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services also required all hospitals to do the same by January 1, 2021.[22] In early August 2022, Littleton Adventist Hospital still had refused to comply.[23] To force hospitals to comply the Colorado House of Representatives and Colorado Senate both passed laws forbidding hospitals from collecting debt by reporting patients to collection agencies.[24][25]

By April 2019, the hospital had one million patients visit the emergency department, it delivered 50,000 babies, and performed 165,000 surgeries.[8]

On February 14, 2023, Centura Health announced that it would split up.[26][27] On August 1, Centura Health split up with Littleton Adventist Hospital rebranding to AdventHealth Littleton.[28][29][30]

In early September 2023, construction began on a three story, 97700 sqfoot, heart and vascular tower for $100 million.[31][32] It would add twenty-four bed coronary care unit, cardiac catheterization laboratories, cardiac diagnostic department, operating theatres, pre-and post-procedural rooms, two hybrid suites, electrophysiology and interventional cardiology suites.[33] Later the size of the tower was changed to 143000 sqfoot and it opened for $150 million on August 27, 2025.[34][35]

On May 15, 2024, AdventHealth Littleton announced that employees had found thirty-one cremains from miscarriages, they were later buried at a local cemetery.[36][37]

See also

• List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals
• List of trauma centers in the United States

Further reading

External links

• Littleton Adventist Hospital, Centura Health Montgomery Advertiser
• Littleton Adventist Hospital, Centura Health HospitalCompare
• Centura Health-Littleton Adventist Hospital (Littleton, CO) USA Today
• Littleton Adventist Hospital, Centura Health Medicare.gov