Lecture: Hidden History February 16, 2010

Getting Sick and Well in Colorado: The Origins and Emergence of our Country's Finest Public Healthcare System. Join Dr. John A. Sbarbaro of the University of Colorado School of Medicine for the history of Denver Health. This medical complex emerged from Colorado's early years of violence, poverty, and communicable diseases and has served the state's medical needs for more than 150 years. From its early days as Arapahoe County Hospital, it has stood as living evidence that once a community accepts a human need as "its" problem, meeting that need will take on a political life of its own. The powerful influence of two women physicians, decades apart, reconfirms that one person can indeed make a difference. Sponsored by Denver Health Foundation in honor of Denver Health's 150th Anniversary