Children’s Colorado, Mayo Clinic Announce Rare Congenital Heart Defect Collaboration

Mayo Clinic’s Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Children’s Colorado are collaborating to provide solutions for patients with this rare and complex form of congenital heart disease in which the left side of the heart is severely underdeveloped.

March 2018

Study Finds Making Flu Vaccines Mandatory for Healthcare Workers Reduces Absenteeism and Increases Rates of Vaccination

A multi-institutional study shows that mandatory flu vaccines for healthcare workers improve vaccination rates by as much as 30% and reduce absenteeism during critical periods by about 6%. Further, vaccinated healthcare workers had a 30% reduction in absenteeism compared to non-vaccinated healthcare workers overall. Children’s Colorado was one of the hospitals that mandated the flu vaccine during the trial.

December 2019

October 2019

Denver Business Journal Recognizes Jena Hausmann as Denver’s ‘Most Admired’ CEO

Children’s Colorado's President and CEO Jena Hausmann has been named among Denver’s “Most Admired” CEOs by the Denver Business Journal. The publication honors CEOs who are “innovators, standard-bearers, role models and exceptional leaders, and whose contributions impact the company they head as well as the community in which they serve.”

June 2019

May 2019

2020

Research Grant Funds Study of Complications Related to COVID-19

University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado announced they received an Emerging Respiratory Viruses Research grant from the American Lung Association. They hope their research leads to treatments that minimize COVID-19 lung damage.