News & Patient Stories

Oct 26, 2024

“When dealing with extremities at risk, there’s a subset of people for whom amputation becomes the right choice. That’s always been a pillar of the Limb Restoration Program,” said Dr. Jason Stoneback, an orthopedic traumatologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, who founded the program.

May 24, 2024

The University of Colorado Limb Restoration Program is the first of its kind to deliver holistic, patient-centered care to people living with limb loss or who are at risk of losing a limb. Based at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, the program provides comprehensive orthopedic, vascular, wound and rehabilitative care to a growing number of patients with complex extremity injuries.

Dec 18, 2024

"It's ok to grieve. It's ok to cry. Just don't get stuck there." UCHealth patient Hiba Azzam went from the ICU to throwing the first pitch at Coors Field with the Colorado Rockies.

Jul 30, 2024

Service to patients. Passion and drive. Excellence, integrity, and humanism. Those and many other qualities were cited by admiring presenters as University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty were honored July 29 at the school’s Distinguished Clinician and Distinguished Faculty Professionalism Awards ceremony.

Apr 4, 2022

On July 4, 2022, I was barely able to move, heavy chested, fatigued, sweating, heart was racing, and my body felt swollen. I was taken to the hospital. After getting things checked out, they told me I was positive for COVID-19. I had told them about my previous history of pericarditis and myocarditis, and they just said that my heart rate was most likely elevated due to the virus and had me go home that day.

Feb 15, 2023

Once bound for the Olympics, Steamboat skier David Schlicht suffered a terrible accident during practice and ultimately opted for a below-knee amputation. With support from his mom, dad and sister, David’s facing his future with infectious optimism. Photo by John Russell for UCHealth.

Feb 21, 2023

As small town populations decline, people in places like western Kansas look for ways to keep their rural farming and ranching lifestyle alive for the next generation. Some families think youth rodeo might be part of the answer.

Jan 13, 2021

It’s not often you manage to damage yourself in a city of 70,000 – the population of Broomfield or Castle Rock – that’s also the middle of nowhere. So it was, though, for Wim Haverhals. During the week leading up to Labor Day 2017, the 50-year-old Denver IT professional was back in Black Rock City, Nevada, for the annual weeklong Burning Man arts and music festival.