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AdventHealth Parker

Portercare Adventist Health System doing business as AdventHealth Parker,[1] is a non-profit hospital campus in Parker, Colorado, United States owned by AdventHealth. The medical facility is a tertiary that has multiple specialties.[2] It is designated a Level II trauma center by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.[3][4]

History

2001-2011

In September 2001, Centura Health purchased 40 acre for $12 million by E-470 and Colorado State Highway 83 for a new hospital.[5][6][7]

Centura Health hired HKS, Inc. to design the hospital;[5] and GE Johnson Construction Company from Colorado Springs, Colorado and Kitchell Construction from Phoenix, Arizona to build it.[8]

Construction for Parker Adventist Hospital began in the summer of 2002.[7] On March 5, 2003, there was a topping out of Parker Adventist Hospital.[9]

On February 3, 2004, Parker Adventist Hospital opened with 58 beds, the 210000 sqfoot hospital was built for $108 million. It also included an attached 80000 sqfoot medical office building.[10] It became the second hospital in Douglas County, the first was Sky Ridge Medical Center.[11][12]

In February 2005, the hospital began expanding onto the second floor that was shelled space for $7.5 million. It will have one operating theatre, thirty-five beds and a unit named the Chest Pain Center.[13] In late November, the second floor at the hospital opened.[14] In January 2009, GE Johnson Construction Company began a two phase expansion and renovation project at Parker Adventist Hospital for $76 million, to increasing the size of the hospital from 210000 sqfoot to 340000 sqfoot.[15][16][17] The first phase would be adding five operating theatres, ten birth rooms; and more space for a post-anesthesia care unit, pre-operation area and sterile processing department.[15][17] The second phase would be adding a three-story inpatient tower with sixty beds, an intensive care unit, a sleep center and more parking. The expansion was to be finished in 2011, increasing the number of beds for the hospital from 100 to 160.[15][16][17]

2017-present

In late 2017, the Colorado Senate passed a law requiring all hospitals to have their chargemaster on its website by January 1, 2018.[18][19][20] The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services also required all hospitals to do the same by January 1, 2021.[21] In early August 2022, Parker Adventist Hospital still had refused to comply.[22] 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.[23][24]

In late January 2020, Vertix Builders began construction of a four-story, 86000 sqfoot medical office building.[25][26] In late May 2021, the Peak Medical Office Building was completed for $25 million.[27] On February 14, 2023, Centura Health announced that it would split up.[28][29] On August 1, Centura Health split up with Parker Adventist Hospital rebranding to AdventHealth Parker.[30][31][32] By early February 2024, the hospital had 530,000 patients visit the emergency department, it delivered 32,000 babies, and performed 125,000 surgeries.[3]

On January 7, 2025, there was a groundbreaking for a 186000 sqfoot seven story tower on the hospitals southside for $300 million.[33][34][35] AdventHealth Parker had hired Boulder Associates and SmithGroup to design the tower; and DPR Construction to build it.[4] In February, construction was to begin on the tower.[36][37] It will have four operating theatres, with two shelled rooms, sixteen pre-and post-operative rooms, sixty hospital beds, two cardiac catheterization labs, two interventional radiology labs and a sterile processing department.[34][35][38] The fifth, sixth and seventh floors will be shelled space and will later become patient floors.[34][36][38] Once the tower is complete at AdventHealth Parker it will be adding 100 jobs to the 1,100 that it already has.[35][38]

In early February 2025, nurses at the hospital received training to recognize and support victims of human trafficking, from the Castle Rock, Colorado non-profit organization From Silenced to Saved.[39][40]

Fentanyl theft

On June 25, 2019, nurse Jessica Sharman plead guilty in United States District Court for the District of Colorado for stealing fentanyl from the intensive care unit at the hospital.[41][42][43] On November 13, she was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison.[44][45]

Services

In March 2019, the hospital became the first medical facility to use a facial recognition system, to reduce mistakes while treating patients with cancer.[46][47]

Partnership

Before the hospital opened it signed a partnership with Children's Hospital Colorado to have it treat pediatrics in a leased attached space.[48][49] From early April 2023 to early September 2024, Children's Hospital Colorado leased the third floor of the Sierra Medical Office Building for an urgent care center.[50][51]

See also

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

Further reading

External links

References

  1. Portercare Adventist Health System Dba AdventHealth Parker ProPublica, retrieved February 9, 2026^
  2. AdventHealth Parker American Hospital Directory, retrieved December 22, 2025^
  3. Haley Lena. AdventHealth Parker Hospital celebrates 20 years of service Parker Chronicle, February 8, 2024, retrieved April 2, 2025^
  4. Construction begins on-storey bed tower at AdventHealth Parker Hospital World Construction Network, January 22, 2025, retrieved April 7, 2025^
  5. John Rebchook. Centura Health Finalizes Hospital Land Deal GlobeSt.com, September 11, 2001, retrieved April 4, 2025^
  6. Christine McManus. Centura inks deal for land in Parker Colorado Community Media, September 19, 2001, retrieved April 4, 2025^
  7. Jennifer Simonson. Parker lands a hospital in 2001 Colorado Community Media, January 2, 2002, retrieved April 3, 2025^
  8. Jennifer Simonson. 2 firms to build Centura Health hospital in Parker Colorado Community Media, February 27, 2002, retrieved April 4, 2025^
  9. John Rebchook. Parker Adventist Hospital Topped Out GlobeSt.com, March 5, 2003, retrieved April 3, 2025^
  10. Don Peitzman. Parker Adventist to offer variety of amenities Colorado Community Media, January 22, 2004, retrieved April 10, 2025^
  11. Big Day in Parker: New Hospital Opens KUSA, February 4, 2004, retrieved April 10, 2025^
  12. Parker Adventist marks 15 years with donation to schools Colorado Community Media, February 5, 2019, retrieved April 2, 2025^
  13. Chris Michlewicz. Parker Adventist expands after 1 year Colorado Community Media, March 17, 2005, retrieved April 3, 2025^
  14. New critical care wing opens Colorado Community Media, November 22, 2005, retrieved April 3, 2025^
  15. Sara Castellanos. Parker hospital plans for growth The Denver Post, June 17, 2009, retrieved April 7, 2025^
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  17. $76 million expansion Colorado Community Media, June 24, 2009, retrieved April 7, 2025^
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  26. Kris Oppermann. Vertix Builders breaks ground on Parker medical office building, tops out WY surgery center Colorado Real Estate Journal, January 20, 2020, retrieved April 9, 2025^
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  28. Logan Smith. Hospital network announces split CBS Colorado, February 14, 2023, retrieved April 2, 2025^
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  35. Haley Lena. AdventHealth Parker hospital expands to keep up with town's growth Parker Chronicle, January 15, 2025, retrieved April 7, 2025^
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  38. Jeff Lagasse. AdventHealth Parker plans $300 million expansion Healthcare Finance, January 17, 2025, retrieved April 8, 2025^
  39. Haley Lena. Emergency department nurses at AdventHealth Parker train to identify and support human trafficking victims Parker Chronicle, February 6, 2025, retrieved April 8, 2025^
  40. Colton Chavez. Nurses are being trained on how to identify and support victims of sex trafficking in Colorado KUSA, February 7, 2025, retrieved April 8, 2025^
  41. Robert Garrison. Former Parker Adventist nurse pleads guilty to stealing fentanyl, replacing drug with saline Denver 7, June 25, 2019, retrieved April 1, 2025^
  42. Eric Ruble. Former Parker Adventist nurse pleads guilty to stealing fentanyl from hospital KDVR, June 25, 2019, retrieved April 1, 2025^
  43. Kirk Mitchell. Nurse pleads guilty to stealing fentanyl from ICU patients The Denver Post, June 25, 2019, retrieved April 2, 2025^
  44. Amanda Kesting. Former nurse sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for stealing Fentanyl from Parker hospital KUSA, November 13, 2019, retrieved April 1, 2025^
  45. Angela Case. Colorado nurse sentenced to federal prison for stealing fentanyl KXRM-TV, November 14, 2019, retrieved April 1, 2025^
  46. Kim Posey. Facial recognition technology used in cancer treatment at Parker Adventist Hospital KDVR, June 26, 2019, retrieved April 3, 2025^
  47. Parker Adventist first in world with new oncology device Colorado Community Media, July 2, 2019, retrieved April 3, 2025^
  48. Jennifer Simonson. Parker Adventist, Children's ink deal on pediatric care Colorado Community Media, February 19, 2003, retrieved April 16, 2025^
  49. Chris Michlewicz. Children's Hospital goes full time at Parker Adventist Colorado Community Media, retrieved April 16, 2025^
  50. Children's Hospital Colorado opens Pediatric Urgent Care in Parker Colorado Community Media, April 13, 2023, retrieved April 16, 2025^
  51. Analisa Romano. Children's Hospital Colorado relocates Parker facility Denver Business Journal, September 11, 2024, retrieved April 16, 2025^