Longmont, Colo. – UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital celebrated a major leap forward in its expansion Tuesday morning as a medical helicopter made the first official landing on the hospital’s new rooftop helipad.
The UCHealth LifeLine landing marked the opening of several recently completed components of the hospital’s multi-phase expansion project — including new operating rooms, new pre- and post-anesthesia care spaces and additional patient rooms in the birth center — all designed to meet the growing health care needs of Longmont and surrounding communities.
Hospital leaders, project planners and construction partners gathered to witness the LifeLine aircraft’s arrival and celebrate the progress of the expansion project.
“This expansion is about more than bricks and mortar — it’s about constantly enhancing the care we provide and improving the patient experience,” said Ryan Rohman, president of UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital. “We are proud to continue growing alongside the community we serve.”
“The first landing on the new helipad is just one of the many milestones of this project to celebrate,” said Senior Vice President of Operations Joe Brunsman. “As the Longmont community grows, McCarthy is very proud and privileged to have had the opportunity to partner with UCHealth and play a small part in the enhanced care Longs Peak will provide new mothers and patients alike in the new and expanded facilities.
The hospital, which opened in 2017 with 51 beds, has grown to 86 beds, and more progressive care and acute care beds will be opening in the year to come. The expansion, which broke ground in 2023, adds 89,000 square feet to the hospital campus.
Completed:
- Two operating rooms
- Nine pre- and post-anesthesia care bays
- Three labor, delivery and recovery rooms
- One C-section room
- Expanded emergency department with seven exam rooms and three Fast Track rooms
- New sterile processing department
- Infill of the hospital courtyard to create new kitchen and dining room
- Renovated and expanded pharmacy
- New, expanded laboratory
- Expanded central utility plant
- Shelled space for future OR growth
More to be completed this year:
- Renovated respiratory clinic
More to come next year:
- Nine new medical-surgical inpatient rooms
- Ten new progressive-care inpatient rooms
- Electrophysiology lab
- Outpatient Xray and CT
Major design and construction trade partners include design partner Page, Cator Ruma, Walter P Moore, Cevian, JVA, BHA, Ricca, Jensen Hughes, FD2S, Lerch Bates, SLR, Envision Planning, Trautman & Shreve, Sturgeon Electric, Zimmerman Metals, SNS Iron Works, Integrity Fire Safety Services, Heggem-Lundquist, Encore Electric, Commercial Flooring Services,
Soderberg Masonry and Douglass Colony Group.
About UCHealth
UCHealth is a nationally recognized nonprofit health system that pushes the boundaries of medicine through advanced treatments and clinical trials, improving health through innovation and providing unmatched patient care in the Rocky Mountain West. Investing $1.3 billion in community benefits including $570 million in uncompensated care each year, UCHealth is Colorado’s largest Medicaid provider and dedicated to the communities it serves. With the region’s only adult academic medical center, University of Colorado Hospital on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, UCHealth includes 35,000 employees, 14 acute-care hospitals and hundreds of physicians across Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska.
