For The Denver Business Journal, we recently looked at why University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) has won plaudits for so many of its departments.

Better-than-average outcomes, new equipment, adherence to nationally recognized protocols, the ability to get care for highly complex problems, the availability of clinical trials and the sheer size of medical staff all help build a national ranking. So does the availability of nationally-recognized specialists, working together, in tackling medicine’s toughest problems.

Take, for instance, UCH’s obstetrics and gynecology department. We wrote:

“When most people think of obstetrics and gynecology, they see a pregnant woman and a healthy baby. But today’s gynecologists also take care of much more complex patients: mothers of triplets, ill mothers, fetuses with anomalies, and mothers with depression.

To meet this need, UCH’s ob/gyn department – and its more than 50 providers – are specialized in oncology, reproductive endocrinology, family planning, maternal fetal medicine and urogynecology…”

Unearthing these full department profiles took research, persistence and cooperation from the doctors and media relations staff at UCH. The results, 12 tightly written departmental profiles, form the backbone of a special Denver Business Journal section titled, Anschutz: City of Health.