Portercare Adventist Health System doing business as AdventHealth Parker,[1] is a non-profit hospital campus in Parker, Colorado, United States owned by AdventHealth. The medical facility is a tertiary that has multiple specialties.[2] It is designated a Level II trauma center by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.[3][4]
Centura Health hired HKS, Inc. to design the hospital;[5] and GE Johnson Construction Company from Colorado Springs, Colorado and Kitchell Construction from Phoenix, Arizona to build it.[8]
Construction for Parker Adventist Hospital began in the summer of 2002.[7] On March 5, 2003, there was a topping out of Parker Adventist Hospital.[9]
On February 3, 2004, Parker Adventist Hospital opened with 58 beds, the 210000 sqfoot hospital was built for $108 million. It also included an attached 80000 sqfoot medical office building.[10] It became the second hospital in Douglas County, the first was Sky Ridge Medical Center.[11][12]
In February 2005, the hospital began expanding onto the second floor that was shelled space for $7.5 million. It will have one operating theatre, thirty-five beds and a unit named the Chest Pain Center.[13] In late November, the second floor at the hospital opened.[14] In January 2009, GE Johnson Construction Company began a two phase expansion and renovation project at Parker Adventist Hospital for $76 million, to increasing the size of the hospital from 210000 sqfoot to 340000 sqfoot.[15][16][17] The first phase would be adding five operating theatres, ten birth rooms; and more space for a post-anesthesia care unit, pre-operation area and sterile processing department.[15][17] The second phase would be adding a three-story inpatient tower with sixty beds, an intensive care unit, a sleep center and more parking. The expansion was to be finished in 2011, increasing the number of beds for the hospital from 100 to 160.[15][16][17]
In late 2017, the Colorado Senate passed a law requiring all hospitals to have their chargemaster on its website by January 1, 2018.[18][19][20] The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services also required all hospitals to do the same by January 1, 2021.[21] In early August 2022, Parker Adventist Hospital still had refused to comply.[22] To force hospitals to comply the Colorado House of Representatives and Colorado Senate both passed laws forbidding hospitals from collecting debt by reporting patients to collection agencies.[23][24]
In late January 2020, Vertix Builders began construction of a four-story, 86000 sqfoot medical office building.[25][26] In late May 2021, the Peak Medical Office Building was completed for $25 million.[27] On February 14, 2023, Centura Health announced that it would split up.[28][29] On August 1, Centura Health split up with Parker Adventist Hospital rebranding to AdventHealth Parker.[30][31][32] By early February 2024, the hospital had 530,000 patients visit the
On January 7, 2025, there was a groundbreaking for a 186000 sqfoot seven story tower on the hospitals southside for $300 million.[33][34][35] AdventHealth Parker had hired Boulder Associates and SmithGroup to design the tower; and DPR Construction to build it.[4] In February, construction was to begin on the tower.[36][37] It will have four operating theatres, with two shelled rooms, sixteen pre-and post-operative rooms, sixty hospital beds, two cardiac catheterization labs, two interventional radiology labs and a sterile processing department.[34][35]
In early February 2025, nurses at the hospital received training to recognize and support victims of human trafficking, from the Castle Rock, Colorado non-profit organization From Silenced to Saved.[39][40]
On June 25, 2019, nurse Jessica Sharman plead guilty in United States District Court for the District of Colorado for stealing fentanyl from the intensive care unit at the hospital.[41][42][43] On November 13, she was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison.[44][45]
In March 2019, the hospital became the first medical facility to use a facial recognition system, to reduce mistakes while treating patients with cancer.[46][47]
Before the hospital opened it signed a partnership with Children's Hospital Colorado to have it treat pediatrics in a leased attached space.[48][49] From early April 2023 to early September 2024, Children's Hospital Colorado leased the third floor of the Sierra Medical Office Building for an urgent care center.[50][51]
