LUH pediatric patients benefit from Centura-Children’s Hospital alliance

LONGMONT — A collaboration between Centura Health and Children’s Hospital Colorado is providing added care for pediatric patients at Longmont United Hospital.

Longmont United Hospital affiliated with Centennial-based Centura Health in 2014.Centura Health and Children’s Hospital Colorado formed an alliance in February 2017 to provide pediatric expertise, share clinical guidelines and protocols, and offer educational programs for nurses and physicians, with a goal of keeping care as close to home as possible.

LUH will continue to manage its neonatal and pediatric units, while benefiting from CHC’s physicians and nurses, who in July began making daily rounds on pediatric inpatients, healthy newborns and newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive-care unit at LUH. The Children’s group will provide round-the-clock care to ill and preterm infants. Group members also will attend high-risk deliveries to provide emergency intervention, if needed.

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“When your child is sick, the last thing you want to do is travel a long distance for care,” said Mitchell Carson, chief executive at Longmont United Hospital. “This partnership with Children’s Hospital Colorado supports our goal of keeping care close to home for our pediatric patients and their families.”