Craig Hospital
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| Geography | |
| Location | 3425 South Clarkson Street, Englewood, Colorado, Colorado, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Free-Standing Not-For-Profit |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
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| Emergency department | N/A |
| Beds | 93 |
| Speciality | Spinal cord injury, Traumatic brain injury |
| History | |
| Founded | 1907 |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Colorado |
Coordinates: 39°39′15″N 104°58′42″W / 39.6541°N 104.9782°W
Craig Hospital is a Rehabilitation Hospital in Englewood, Colorado specializing in Spinal cord injury (SCI) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Craig is a 93-bed, private, not-for-profit, free-standing long-term acute care and rehabilitation hospital that provides a comprehensive system of inpatient and outpatient medical care, rehabilitation, neurosurgical rehabilitative care, and long-term follow-up services. Half of Craig’s patients come from outside of Colorado each year, and in the past four years Craig has treated patients from all 50 states and several foreign countries. At any given time, the staff at Craig treats approximately 55 inpatients with spinal cord injuries, 30 with traumatic brain injuries, and 50-60 outpatients. Craig provides housing for out-of-state families and outpatients, including the first 30 days free for families of new inpatients.
Craig Hospital is designated by the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research (NIDRR) as a Model System Center for both spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. Craig is also the NIDRR National Statistical TBI database for the other 15 Model System Centers in the U.S.
In 1907, Frank Craig started the Tent Colony of Brotherly Love in Lakewood, Colorado to treat indigent men with tuberculosis. Craig himself died from tuberculosis in 1914 and the tent colony was renamed Craig Colony in his memory in 1919.
As the demand for tuberculosis treatment waned in the United States, Craig Colony began focusing on the diagnoses and treatment of multiple sclerosis, polio, muscular dystrophy, and spinal cord injury (SCI). The facility is renamed Craig Rehabilitation Center in 1958, followed by another renaming to Craig Rehabilitation Hospital in 1966 and a move to Englewood, Colorado in 1970 where an 80-bed rehabilitation hospital was built adjacent to the Swedish Medical Center to share ancillary services.
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