Becker's Healthcare February 14, 2025
Gunnison (Colo.) Valley Health, a licensed 24-bed critical access hospital, is embarking on a major technological upgrade — implementing Epic’s EHR system.
However, for a hospital of its size, taking on such a massive transition alone would have been financially impossible. Thanks to a strategic partnership with Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth, Gunnison Valley Health is not only implementing Epic but also gaining access to resources that will enhance patient care as well as the implementation process.
From a patchwork of systems to a unified platform
Before making the switch to Epic, Gunnison Valley Health operated on four or five different EHRs, depending on the department. This fragmentation created inefficiencies in communication, data reporting and care coordination.
“The real why [for the...