National Jewish Health

Programs: National jewish health conducts extensive basic, translational and clinical biomedical research. In addition to translational research programs in its areas of clinical specialties, national jewish conducts research in basic immunology, genetics, proteomics, cell biology, signal transduction, structural biology, cancer biology, and oxidant biology. Research activities have resulted in a number of scientific discoveries that have improved care for patients worldwide. Funds for national jewish's biomedical research are provided by grants from private and governmental agencies which include the national institutes of health (nih), the department of defense (dod), and the howard hughes medical institute (hhmi); and charitable contributions.

national jewish health is a national referral center treating adult and pediatric patients on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. National jewish specializes in the treatment of respiratory, cardiac, allergic and immunologic diseases. Clinical specialties include: allergy, pulmonology, occupational medicine, psychosocial medicine, gastroenterology, rheumatology, cardiology, critical care and hospital medicine, otolaryngology, sleep medicine, oncology, nephrology, cystic fibrosis, pharmacokinetics and infectious disease. In the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017, national jewish had over 104,009 outpatient physician visits and an average day program census of 13. 83 days. Our physicians had 22,160 encounters with patients through providing critical care and consult services in hospitals throughout the city. Patients included residents from virtually every state and several foreign countries, with residents of colorado constituting the largest group. National jewish was founded under the motto "none may enter who can pay, none can pay who enter. " while national jewish accepts paying patients, we still provide significant amounts of charity care and offer all appointments on a first come, first serve basis regardless of ability to pay.

from its beginnings in 1899, national jewish health physicians and scientists have focused on treatment and prevention of the leading public health issues of the day. Health initiatives programs continue our heritage by addressing the top two causes of preventable illness and death today - obesity and smoking. In the us, one in three people are obese, one in three people are overweight, and one in five people use tobacco. Effective treatment of obesity and smoking requires permanent changes to unhealthy behavior patterns. National jewish has been a leader in guiding healthy behavior change since the mid-1990s when we launched one of the first disease management programs. Each year, we help tens of thousands of people across the nation improve their health through our fitlogix(r) weight management and quitlogix(r) tobacco cessation programs. Our programs are based on evidence-based guidelines and clinically-proven interventions for behavior modification. Quitlogix(r) combines personal coaching with nicotine replacement therapy to achieve one of the highest quit smoking rates in the country. Since 2002, quitlogix has assisted over 1,000,000 people across the country with their quit attempts. Fitlogix(r) helps individuals change their diet and exercise habits through behavior modification in order to lose weight and improve overall health. Our weight loss results are sustainable and exceed national standards for outcomes. Since 2008, we have helped over 10,000 individuals and achieved weight loss outcomes that met or exceeded national standards.

national jewish health emphasizes the education of health professionals and biomedical scientists. National jewish is a teaching affiliate of the university of colorado which is accredited by the accreditation council for graduate medical education. National jewish's office of professional education creates continuing medical education (cme) programs that assist physicians and healthcare providers in changing their practice behaviors and further develop and enhance their clinical knowledge and skills to better treat their patients. To assist in educating the public about lung, allergic, and immunologic disorders, national jewish created a toll-free call center, lung line (r), in 1983. In addition, national jewish provides a free community outreach program designed to promote lung health and awareness in the community. National jewish operates a free, accredited, k-8 school on campus, geared to the needs of children who have been educationally disadvantaged by long term illness. The morgridge academy, founded in the early 1940s, provides an opportunity for 60 to 80 chronically ill children annually to benefit from studying with their peers.