Milestones Icon: Avista Adventist Hospital

Louisville-based Avista Adventist Hospital has undergone four name changes during its rich, 116-year history.

The oldest hospital in Boulder County, Avista started off in Boulder in 1895 as the Colorado Sanitarium.

It became Boulder Sanitarium and Hospital in the mid-1920s, then Boulder Memorial Hospital in the 1950s.

Boulder Memorial was sold to Boulder Community Hospital in 1989. The hospital moved to Louisville and changed its name to Avista in 1990, and today is one of 13 hospitals in the Centura Health network, Colorado’s largest health-care system.

The name Avista was chosen because the hospital is located on a hill with a fabulous view and…