Exempla Healthcare is a not-for-profit community-based organization sponsored by the LMC Community Foundation and the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System. We number over 8500 employees, volunteers, and affiliated physicians and operate primarily through our three main facilities:

Located in midtown Denver, Colorado, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital is a renowned teaching hospital, the first of its kind in Denver that is dedicated to providing excellent care, especially to the underserved. For the past five years, the hospital has treated more patients than any other acute-care facility in metropolitan Denver in a wide range of areas, including cardiology and open-heart surgery.

We also treat more patients locally in such areas as gastroenterology, general surgery, neonatology, obstetrics, nephrology, orthopedic, pulmonary and rheumatology. Additionally, we deliver more babies than any other hospital in Colorado. Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital has 565 licensed beds and cares for 21,000 inpatients yearly, while outpatient visits approach 125,000.

Since 1905, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center has been advancing the art of healing and the science of medicine throughout metro Denver. Today, the 400-bed, community-based hospital offers a comprehensive spectrum of specialized care, from birth to end-of-life. In 2007, Lutheran treated and cared for more than 18,000 patients, nearly 3,000 babies and 70,000 others in Lutheran’s “most preferred” emergency room.

Every patient can be assured of receiving the highest standard of care. Lutheran’s national accreditations include Level III Trauma, Level III Neonatal, Chest Pain Centers of America, and is the region’s only Sleep Disorders Center. The hospital’s 2,500 employees, 800 physicians and nearly 700 volunteers have helped Lutheran earn numerous recognitions, including being named one of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals seven times.

Lutheran also provides pediatric urgent care through a partnership with The Children’s Hospital; top musculoskeletal services through its Human Motion Institute; superb mental health services at West Pines Behavioral Health Center; and compassionate senior services at Colorado Lutheran Home. Lutheran’s legacy of trusted care continued with the openings of Collier Hospice Center and Lutheran Surgery Center in 2006, and Exempla Lutheran Medical Center – Southwest, a medical office building complete with urgent care and medical imaging, which opened in the summer of 2007. The hospital is deeply committed to the community, as shown through its partnership with Spirit of Women and its support of Metro Community Provider Network’s Estes Street Clinic and Young AmeriTowne.

Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center opened in December 2004 on an 80-acre site in the community of Lafayette near Denver. Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center is a 202-bed facility, and features spacious patient rooms, state-of-the-art equipment, and units designed for efficient function.

The $175-million, four-story building houses a wide range of multi-specialty entities, including Surgical Services, Emergency Department with Urgent Care, Labor and Delivery, Level II Neonatal Care Unit, Cardiovascular Services, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, and Comprehensive Radiology Services.

The medical campus is also host to two medical office buildings, The Kaiser Permanente Rock Creek Medical Offices and the Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center Community Physicians Pavilion.

Lafayette, a short drive from Denver and Boulder, has modern neighborhoods, easy access to fine restaurants and shopping centers, virtually limitless outdoor recreation and, of course, with the Rocky Mountains nearby-- the breathtaking vistas that only Colorado can provide. The Exempla Good Samaritan campus offers excellent mountain and garden views, walking trails, a healing garden, tranquil waterways and more, all to fashion an environment of healing.

Our network of clinics provide primary care, family practice, occupational medicine and rehabilitation services, and specialty care to the community – some for more than 20 years.

We provide for our patient base from seven primary care clinics, one urgent care clinic, eight occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics, and nine specialty clinics.

Exempla Lutheran Medical Center has been named seven times as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® by Solucient®, the nation's leading source of healthcare information products. The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in quality of care, operational efficiency, financial performance, and adaptation to the environment. Solucient also recognized Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in a separate study for outstanding orthopedic care.

In 2006, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center received Sleep Center Accreditation by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, making it one of only two sleep centers in the Denver area to receive such designation. Exempla Lutheran also received the Carescience Select Practice National Quality Leader Award in Ischemic Stroke in 2006.

Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital has been named in four categories as one of "America's Best Hospitals" according to US News & World Report. Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital was also named a top hospital by Solucient in its 1999 study “Orthopedic Benchmarks for Success,” in its 2000 study “ICU Benchmarks for Success,” and in 2002 for Cardiac Care.

Exempla Lutheran and Exempla Saint Joseph each received VHA Leadership Awards for Clinical Excellence in 2007, while the system was honored by VHA for Supply Chain Improvement.

Exempla Saint Joseph was named 2007 “Internship Worksite of the Year” by the Center for Work Education and Employment for the Exempla Saint Joseph program that helps single parents move from welfare to work.

Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center was recognized by Avatar International, a leader in healthcare research and consulting, for “Exemplary Service – Overall Best Performer 2006,” based on overall healthcare service quality scores for combined patient types of Inpatient, Outpatient, Ambulatory Surgery, and Emergency Service.

Exempla Good Samaritan also received recognition in 2006 as the first Colorado hospital – and one of only 55 hospitals in the country - to be awarded “Baby Friendly” designation by WHO and UNICEF.

In 2006, all three hospitals received accreditation as chest pain centers by the Society of Chest Pain Centers.

Our mission is simple: to foster healing and health for the community we serve.

Our vision is to be recognized as best in the nation as measured by patient safety and their satisfaction, employee and physician engagement and their satisfaction, clinical excellence, and value. More than simply platitudes, we have instituted meaningful programs specifically designed to involve everyone in the pursuit of this vision and to measure our progress toward this goal.

Our core values are embodied in what we term the Exempla Way. Leading these values is integrity, by which we simply mean doing the right thing. We also seek to foster a welcoming spirit to make all who enter our facilities feel at home, whether they are patients, visitors or employees.

Because we believe in a comprehensive, inclusive approach to healthcare and healing, partnership is another core value. It means involving everyone in the healing process: patients, families, community, physicians, and providers.

We take great pride in doing good work and helping to make healthcare as a whole better. Finally, we believe that good humor is an integral part of the healing process for both patients and caregivers. We enjoy one another and our work!

As a not-for-profit organization, everything we do at Exempla flows from a central core of values - an absolute dedication to healing above all else.

Exempla's core values:

• Integrity - doing the right thing
• Welcoming Spirit - making all feel at home
• Partnership - together and with patients, families, community with physicians, providers, and payers
• Pride - doing good work and making healthcare better
• Good Humor - enjoying one another and our work

There's continuity from this foundation that makes you feel part of something truly special, rewarding, and lasting.

You’ll discover the core values and dedication to you and your patients present as a constant throughout our facilities. Exempla is dedicated to investing in you and the latest technology and equipment to allow you to provide the best healthcare possible. This dedication includes your involvement and input in our quest to continually build upon our service excellence standards. Essential to our core values and dedication is our emphasis on safety for both patients and employees alike. We are dedicated to making continuous improvements in facilities, procedures, and processes devoted to safety. At Exempla, you'll be rewarded for your skills and dedication in a variety of ways, starting with compensation that's highly competitive. In fact, annual merit increases for Exempla Healthcare employees who meet specific performance criteria have grown thanks to our new performance appraisal program.

Also, enhanced compensation programs are now available with improved differentials for the float pool and specialty float pool, full-time and part-time non-benefited positions, the weekend plan, select certifications and BSN/MSN education (for select positions).

The Good as Gold Employee Recognition Program is a tool Exempla uses to acknowledge employees who support our mission, values and vision to be recognized as Best in the Nation. While many employees consistently provide great service, Good as Gold has been created to recognize and reward employees who do an exceptional job and demonstrate service excellence. An Exempla employee can be nominated by patients, co-workers, visitors, volunteers and physicians. Exempla also has site-based recognition programs such as the Daisy Award, Monarch Award, and Spirit of the Sisters Award.

Additional employee benefits provide a tremendous range of choices in terms of medical coverage, as well as a full complement of other benefits, from retirement plans to tuition reimbursement. Click here to learn more about Exempla's benefits.

Founded in 1873, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital was the first private teaching hospital in Denver. While Denver was still struggling to become the Territorial Capital, Mother Xavier Ross of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kansas, sent four Sisters to the establishment of hospital work with nine dollars and the challenge: "Look forward for the good there is yet to be."

The March 22, 1899 issue of the Denver Times wrote "The success of the hospital and its rapid growth are due in large measure to the non-sectarian character of the charity, to the high efficiency of the medical staff, and the keen interest which the Sisters take in the work to which they have devoted their lives." A year later, Saint Joseph created a training program for nurses that lasted until 1970.

Extensive equipment was installed during these years, including a brass-sterilizing machine, reputed to be the first of its size west of the Mississippi. X-ray equipment was also added, a remarkable accomplishment since the procedure had just been discovered in 1895.

As the community grew, so did the hospital, through the Great Depression and two world wars. Our modern era began in 1961 when ground was broken for the hospital's current twin tower structures, which were dedicated in 1964. A new surgery was added in 1972 and in 1977 the Radiology/Cardiovascular annex was completed. The latest addition, completed in 1997, is the Russell Pavilion, which provides better access to Emergency Services and Radiation Oncology, as well as a state-of-the-art conference center and libraries for healthcare professionals and the community.

Throughout its 130-year heritage, Saint Joseph Hospital has retained its Catholic identity and its commitment to providing medical care to the underserved.

Exempla Lutheran Medical Center began in 1905 as the Evangelical Lutheran Sanitarium; a tent colony for tuberculosis patients, as Colorado's warm, dry climate and clean air made it a natural treatment setting. It was located in the farming community of Wheat Ridge, just a few miles west of Denver's city limits.

As medical advances diminished the demand for tuberculosis treatment, community leaders decided the center should serve Jefferson County, the rapidly growing region connecting metro Denver and the mountains, which had no hospital. That is how, in 1961, community-based Lutheran Hospital came to be a not-for-profit, general medical facility located on a 100-acre campus. While its name reflected its original ties to the Lutheran denomination, the new hospital was -and is- independent of any church affiliation.

To meet the needs of the growing county, Lutheran Hospital expanded from 220 to 280 beds in 1964. Emergency and outpatient services were also enhanced significantly in 1968. It was during the early 1970s that Lutheran Hospital officially became Lutheran Medical Center (LMC), a change that declared both the organization's growth as a provider and its continued commitment to meeting the health needs of the community.

The Center's physical growth continued as well. In 1973, a six-floor tower was added and with the expansion of the Critical Care Unit in 1985, the number of licensed beds rose to 409, which remains the current capacity level today. The diversity of care we provide today is directly linked to strategic decisions made in recent years, allowing Exempla Lutheran Medical Center to meet existing and emerging challenges, including technological, financial and regulatory, while still providing outstanding, quality patient care.

Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center opened in December 2004 on an 80-acre site in the community of Lafayette near Denver. Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center is a 202-bed facility and features spacious patient rooms, state-of-the-art equipment, and units designed for efficient function.

The $175-million, four-story building houses a wide range of multi-specialty entities, including Surgical Services, Emergency Department with Urgent Care, Labor and Delivery, Level II Neonatal Care Unit, Cardiovascular Services, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, and Comprehensive Radiology Services.

The medical campus is also host to two medical office buildings, The Kaiser Permanente Rock Creek Medical Offices and the Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center Community Physicians Pavilion.

Lafayette, a short drive from Denver and Boulder, has modern neighborhoods, easy access to fine restaurants and shopping centers, virtually limitless outdoor recreation and, of course, with the Rocky Mountains nearby-- the breathtaking vistas that only Colorado can provide. The Exempla Good Samaritan campus offers excellent mountain and garden views, walking trails, a healing garden, tranquil waterways and more, all to fashion an environment of healing.