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Your community hospital depends on your generosity as we navigate an ongoing, unprecedented challenge. Your contributions provide the resources we need to fight COVID-19 outbreaks and support health and well-being for all in our community. Together, we can commit to ensuring the very best care for our families, friends and neighbors in northern Colorado.

UCHealth wants you to know that it is safe to see your provider. Our primary care, urgent care, specialty clinics and hospitals are open. As we schedule appointments, we’re taking every precaution possible to ensure it’s safe to see your doctor.

Funds raised at our 2019 Spring Benefit, to advance local medical research, are being used to help COVID-19 patients.

We are deeply grateful for the support our community has provided during the pandemic. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank the individuals and businesses that gave in-kind gifts—supplies, equipment, food, services and more—to support our health care heroes in the battle against COVID-19.

On April 27, UCHealth began resuming a limited number of medically necessary surgeries and procedures. The decision is based on careful research and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

As health care workers treat COVID-19 patients, they face the same disruptions and challenges to everyday life that many others are experiencing because of the pandemic. To support our health care heroes experiencing such challenges, UCHealth established the Health Care Worker Emergency Relief Fund. To date, the fund has assisted 155 of our employees experiencing hardship as a result of COVID-19.

People who recover from COVID-19 have antibodies against the virus in the plasma component of their blood. That COVID-19 convalescent plasma, or CCP, is now being used to treat other patients who have the disease.

Our community has reached out in myriad ways to help health care workers as they care for COVID-19 patients. Individuals and organizations have given money, food, services and supplies. Every donation matters, and every donation helps. We are grateful for each contribution and would like to highlight a few from some of our community’s business mainstays.

We are grateful for the community’s many meal donations to our health care heroes during the pandemic. With the reactivation of additional services at our hospitals, we are tapering off these donations, ending them on May 15, 2020. In lieu of food donations, there are many ways you can help continue the fight against COVID-19.

As our nurses, staff and providers tackle what may be the toughest few weeks of our careers, we know that we are not alone. We are grateful to have the support of the community. Our community has responded in ways we've never seen before, food deliveries to our hospitals, thank you signs and chalk drawings at every entrance, thousands of emails and messages sharing love and support, and donations of new personal protective equipment or other supplies.