Inner City Health Center - Helping Solve the Health Care Crisis

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The patient population being served has grown from less than 2,000 patient visits in our first year of operation to over 21,000 during fiscal year 2005-2006.
The University of Colorado Dental School rotates their dental students through ICHC as part of the training program.
The counseling program provides an internship for graduate counseling students from various graduate level programs.
ICHC is accredited for medical students, from the University of Colorado medical school, to serve their preceptorship in the medical program of ICHC.
Residents from the St. Anthony Family Practice Residency Program deliver the prenatal patients from ICHC and obtain beneficial experience while providing a needed service.
In October 1999, the Dental Program at Inner City Health Center was selected to receive the American Dental Association Community Preventive Dentistry Award (highest award).
In September 2002, an audit by the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians (under a grant by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment) reported that Inner City Health Center had the highest immunization percentage of any program in Colorado for their initial audit (85% of immunizations for children 19 to 33 months old were up to date). The current state rate is approximately 75%; the Colorado Healthy People 2010 goal is 90%.
In March 2003, Inner City Health Center was the recipient of the 2003 Hero in Health award from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield for the exceptional work done on behalf of the uninsured and underinsured of Colorado.
Also, Inner City Health Center was named a finalist in the 2003 El Pomar Foundation Awards for Excellence program that recognizes outstanding non-profit organizations for the work being done in the community. Hundreds of non-profit organizations were originally nominated for this statewide honor.
ICHC has been a Post News Season to Share grant recipient for several years; 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007.
Selected as a Champion in the Community by the Denver Broncos Charities. ICHC will partner with the Denver Broncos Football Club to improve the lives of Coloradans through health. The support of the Denver Broncos will continue until 2009.
ICHC was Named The 2006 Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Non-profit Organization of the year.
Inner City Health Center was named a finalist for the Colorado Biz Top Company Award 2007 in the Healthcare category.
Inner City Health Center was also named a finalist for the 2007 Denver Business Journal Champions in Healthcare in the Health Care/ Medical Facility category.
ICHC was named the winner of the 2007 El Pomar Foundation's Award for Excellence in the Healthcare-Large Category.