Best Medical Emergencies In Denver Near Me

Business: Discover more about Denver Health, one of Colorado’s premier healthcare institutions and home to the Region's Level I Trauma Center.

4worldlovers: Denver Health’s primary goal is to deliver the care that you need—when you need it. While most of us prefer to take a planned approach to scheduling care, we realize that there may be times when an emergency medical condition arises.

We are here for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Our medical staff cares for more than 120,000 patients each year and is fully staffed to handle any medical emergency.

Urgent care treats illnesses and injuries that require medical attention, usually after hours or at night, when your regular doctor may not be available. Learn about some of the common urgent care illnesses and injuries we treat.

Emergency care treats more life-threatening injuries such as head injuries, serious broken bones, and injuries and illnesses that usually need treatment right away. Learn about some of the common emergency illnesses and injuries we treat.

Adult Urgent Care Center: Urgent care services for those who are in need of care after business hours or who cannot be seen by their primary care physician. Hours are limited.

Pediatric Emergency and Urgent Care Center: Provides urgent and emergency care for children 24 hours a day and a full team of medical professionals to care for every child's need.

East Grand Community Clinic and Emergency Center: Located at the base of Winter Park Resort, this location is open year round and provides Emergency Services.

Denver Health NurseLine: Staffed by Registered Nurses 24 hours a day, the Denver Health NurseLine provides health advice and recommendation for care. Call 303-739-1211. ** At this time the NurseLine is experiencing a high number of calls due to coronavirus. If you are not calling about respiratory symptoms or an urgent health concern, please submit your question to your primary care provider through MyChart.

Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center: Denver’s only academic Level I Trauma Center. Provides some of the best outcomes for patients with multiple traumatic injuries. In addition, our Orthopedic Experts provide orthopedic trauma care for patients with complex fractures.

Denver Health Paramedics: We respond to more than 80,000 calls each year and provide vital emergency medical services throughout the City and County of Denver.

Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety center: Provides poison and drug information services to medical professionals and the public. The certified regional poison center for Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Montana and Hawaii. Call 1-800-222-1222.

Business: Denver Health's urgent care has multiple locations in downtown Denver, Colorado, and provides urgent care services for those that need care after business hours, or cannot be seen by a primary care do

Business: Denver Health's pediatric urgent care is located on our main campus in Denver, Colorado, and provides urgent care services around the clock care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Business: The Denver Health Downtown Urgent Care provides walk-in health services & urgent care to downtown Denver. We offer urgent care services with low to no wait times.

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Each day we are inspired by the courage of hundreds of children and families receiving treatment in our network of facilities in metro Denver, Colorado. Whether caring for an injured child in an emergency, performing minimally invasive surgery on a newborn, or supporting a teen through cancer treatments, we are committed to providing the highest level of care for every child. We team up with parents to help their children get back to their worlds fast, because we are amazing together.

The number of self-harm emergency room visits for kids has more than tripled, from 347 in 2016 to 1,211 in 2021.

Business: Denver Health’s Level 1 Trauma Center in Denver, Colorado, is one of the world’s leading Trauma Centers and has one of the highest survival rates in the country.

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Denver Health's Level One Trauma Center is one of the world's leading Trauma Centers and has one of the highest survival rates in the country. Our skilled and specialized trauma surgeons are internationally recognized leaders in the field and quite literally wrote the book on the care of the injured patient. Patient survival, academic excellence and leadership, and comprehensive care from injury through recovery make Denver Health the leading Trauma Center in Colorado and the region. Our regional Trauma Center, which manages trauma cases in Colorado and six neighboring states, receives and cares for patients with any type of traumatic injury.

Our highly experienced trauma team provides evidence-based, patient-centered care leading to some of the best outcomes in the country. We have a proud tradition of providing high quality, cutting-edge care and are leads in trauma surgery innovation.


Years of experience allows our trauma surgical team to create a custom recovery plan designed for our patients. We strive to educate based upon our vast trauma experience in the management of traumatic injuries, through management guidelines, educational conferences, and a vast selection of lectures from the Denver Health Trauma Lecture Series.

Not only are our trauma surgeons at Denver Health available 24/7 to discuss management, our Trauma Services Department can be an invaluable resource in the overall management of your trauma program. We strive to provide the optimal care for all injured patients with the goal of improving the quality of life in every injured person.

Denver Health has a long history of providing the most advanced trauma care available. Since its opening in 1860 (our first trauma patient arrived by horse after a gunshot wound from a duel), the trauma center has remained a pioneer in trauma care. As the first Trauma Center in Colorado, Denver Health was just re-verified and designated as a Level One Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons and the State of Colorado, continuing a long legacy of providing care for the most severely injured.

We are the only Level One Trauma Center in the city of Denver treating some 21,000 patients annually, admitting more than 3,000 trauma patients annually and receiving transfers from more than 82 regional hospitals.

Denver Health's trauma surgeons collaborate and consult with leading experts providing comprehensive trauma care in the following services:

In addition to its robust Adult Level One Trauma Center, Denver Health is an American College of Surgeons verified Level Two Pediatric Trauma Center. When a traumatic event happens, families stay together.

The Denver Health Trauma Center faculty has a prolific record in research, having published much of the seminal literature in trauma. We are heavily funded by the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense, and recently received a $90 million U.S. Department of Defense contract to develop cutting-edge care for the injured patient. In 2019 alone, our surgeons gave over 175 presentations and published more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.

Denver Health's Level One Trauma Center is committed to providing trauma education to trauma centers, hospitals, physicians and

Pre-hospital agencies throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Our physicians and nurses lecture nationally and internationally and have contributed to much of the literature on care of the severely injured and shocked patient. We travel to outlying hospitals to teach, train and educate healthcare providers and maintain a library of lectures online, accessible to rural health care partners. The Denver Health Trauma Lecture Series is held at Denver Health monthly for internal education and broadcasted via Webex. Anyone can access Denver Health's continuing education (CME, CNE, CE).

Our trauma experts and nursing staff provide training by request. Contact our Trauma Education Coordinator to partner with Denver Health for education or training.

Business: UCHealth Emergency Room - Green Valley Ranch, a service of University of Colorado Hospital, is a fully equipped emergency room located in your neighborhood, close to your home.

Business: Finally, a place that combines the most useful parts of emergency services and urgent care all under one roof. Unlike a traditional urgent care facility that closes during the evening and is only equi

Business: Founded in 1930, Porter Adventist Hospital has provided people throughout Denver and surrounding communities with compassionate, personalized healthcare. Today, Porter Adventist Hospital is a full-ser

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Founded in 1930, Porter Adventist Hospital has provided people throughout Denver and surrounding communities with compassionate, personalized healthcare. Today, Porter Adventist Hospital is a full-service, acute-care referral center specializing in joint replacement, spine surgery, organ transplant, behavioral health, cancer care, and innovative cardiac treatments.

Centura Health is proud to be able to offer the COVID-19 vaccination to our flourishing communities. The vaccine is a safe and effective way to protect yourself, your family, and your community from the virus. Our many primary care locations are offering the COVID-19 vaccine. Patients who have a MyCenturaHealth patient portal can use the link above to schedule your first, second, third, or booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. If you are not a Centura patient and would like to schedule an appointment, please contact one of our many primary care clinics that is most convenient for you.

Centura primary care clinics are focused on keeping you at full health — from preventive care to careful diagnosis, find the care you need to stay living your best. Regardless of age, we are all in on promoting and maintaining your well-being so that you can keep unleashing your greatest self out on the world.

Porter Adventist Hospital is a full-service, acute-care referral center specializing in joint replacement, spine surgery, organ transplant, behavioral health, digestive health, cancer care, and innovative cardiac treatments. Learn about each of our specialties, including how they can serve your needs with advanced treatment and compassionate care.


The Colorado Joint Replacement program is rated among the top programs in the country. It scores in the top 1 percentile for patient quality and satisfaction. Our patients also give the program top scores, giving us a 5-star Google ratings for every joint replacement surgeon in our program.


You can count on us to be there for you. Whatever your situation, whether you are a patient at Porter Adventist Hospital, a family member or a friend, we'll provide you with current information on treatment options, sound advice, tips on how to prepare for a hospital stay and resources so you can take control of your healthcare. We are committed to making your experience at Porter Adventist Hospital a first-rate experience.

We ignite passionate giving by connecting generous hearts to transform lives.

Porter Adventist Hospital Foundation is a nonprofit, faith-based fundraising organization dedicated to providing financial support to Porter Adventist Hospital, thereby helping to facilitate and improve healthcare for the people of our community. We are committed to extending the healing ministry of Christ, by caring for those in need—particularly the sick, the injured and the elderly—through our financial support of Porter Adventist Hospital.

Community health and wellness is a priority to us, that’s why we’re proud to offer a wide range of community programs, classes and events designed to keep you well.