First Kaiser Permanente babies born at HCA HealthONE Rose

Kaiser Permanente is one of the state’s largest nonprofit health care organizations, offering a leading model of health care that integrates care and coverage. This connected model includes care delivered by Kaiser Permanente primary care and specialty clinicians, along with an extensive external network of providers and hospitals.

In fall 2024, Kaiser Permanente announced an expansion of its long-standing relationship with HCA HealthONE in Colorado to include HCA HealthONE Rose and HCA HealthONE Presbyterian St. Luke’s hospitals.

The arrival of the Rose Babies builds on Kaiser Permanente’s labor and delivery relationship with HCA HealthONE. Kaiser Permanente physicians and staff have cared for mothers and babies at HCA HealthONE SkyRidge for more than 12 years.

“Just like the journey to parenthood starts long before a baby is born, our journey to welcoming the first Kaiser Permanente babies at HCA HealthONE began long before their arrival,” said Jeff Krawcek, MD, president and executive medical director of Kaiser Permanente in Colorado. “Our teams put months of precise planning into action, leaning on their expertise and compassion to bring more new lives into the world. We’re thrilled to see our members benefiting from access to region-leading maternity care at HCA HealthONE Rose.”

HCA HealthONE Rose delivers more babies than any other hospital in the Denver region and is renowned for women’s health services. For more than 75 years, having a “Rose Baby” has meant something special. The hospital consistently ranks as one of the top hospitals in the nation for maternity care and quality excellence.

“Expectant mothers are drawn to HCA HealthONE Rose because of the great service, outstanding communication, and personalized care we provide,” said Casey Guber, president and CEO of HCA HealthONE Rose. “Our exceptional physicians, nurses, and entire Rose Women’s staff are the heart of that care — delivering excellence every day to our community. That same level of excellence will now be extended to Kaiser Permanente patients and physicians.”

To meet the care needs of Kaiser Permanente mothers and babies, HCA HealthONE Rose expanded a few units, including its labor and delivery, postpartum, and neonatal intensive care units. This expansion increased room capacity by 40%, in addition to creating 6 nurse stations and a second well-baby nursery. The hospital offers a range of services to support birth plans from natural, unmedicated births to complicated, high-risk deliveries.

“Birth signifies a new season of life, and by strengthening our relationship with both HCA HealthONE and CommonSpirit Health, Kaiser Permanente is entering a new season of extending our value-based model of care to more Coloradans,” said Mike Ramseier, regional president of Kaiser Permanente in Colorado. “Our members are looking for greater choice, convenience, and access to high-quality care in metro Denver — and these expanded relationships provide that. We look forward to welcoming many more Kaiser Permanente Rose Babies.”

When having a baby with Kaiser Permanente, members can expect leading services that continue beyond the hospital doors. In metro Denver, Kaiser Permanente’s perinatal home care team offers in-home postpartum visits with baby weigh-ins, C-section scar checks, breastfeeding support, and other essential interventions designed to support family health and reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions.

As Kaiser Permanente physicians and staff begin caring for members’ needs at HCA HealthONE Rose, they are also now caring for Kaiser Permanente patients at HCA HealthONE Presbyterian St. Luke’s and CommonSpirit St. Anthony and St. Anthony North hospitals.

Kaiser Permanente’s extensive hospital network also includes, but is not limited to, HCA HealthONE’s Aurora, Rocky Mountain Children’s, Sky Ridge, and Swedish; Intermountain Health’s St. Joseph, Good Samaritan, and Lutheran; Children’s Hospital Colorado; Boulder Community Foothills Hospital; Banner Health; and UCHealth’s Memorial Hospital Central and Parkview Medical Center. Additionally, Kaiser Permanente members have access to many CommonSpirit facilities, including St. Anthony, St. Anthony North, OrthoColorado, Longmont United, Penrose, St. Francis, St. Francis-Interquest, St. Thomas More, and St. Mary-Corwin. Information on Kaiser Permanente doctors and locations is available at kp.org/locations.

In addition to aligning with more local hospitals, Kaiser Permanente is making significant investments to build new, state-of-the-art replacement medical offices in Lakewood, Parker, and Pueblo North, and to renovate many of its 29 medical offices across the Front Range. The new Parker Medical Offices are scheduled to open in July 2025, followed by the Pueblo facility in August 2025 and the Lakewood Medical Offices in early 2026.

About HCA HealthONE

HCA HealthONE, one of the largest and most comprehensive healthcare systems in the Rocky Mountain region, offers more than 170 care sites in the Denver-metro area. Offering services across the continuum of care to meet patients’ total healthcare needs, HCA HealthONE includes seven acute care hospitals, a dedicated flagship pediatric hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, CareNow® urgent care clinics, mental health campuses, imaging and surgery centers, physician practices, home and hospice care, and AirLife Denver, which provides regional critical care air and ground transportation. HCA HealthONE employs more than 12,000 colleagues and has been named one of the top five large health systems in the country multiple years. HCA HealthONE and its parent company, HCA Healthcare, have been named 14 consecutive times by Ethisphere as a World’s Most Ethical Company and two consecutive years as a LinkedIn Top Company. HCA HealthONE hospitals include: Aurora, Centennial, Mountain Ridge, Presbyterian St. Luke’s, Rocky Mountain Children’s, Rose, Sky Ridge, Swedish, and Spalding working together to provide a higher level of care. Consistently among the Denver Business Journals’ list of top corporate philanthropists in the Denver-metro area, HCA HealthONE was named as one of the most community-minded organizations by The Civic 50 and contributed  than $780K through cash and in-kind donations last year alone, along with more than $471M in federal, state and local taxes. 

To learn more about our impact on the communities we serve and how #WeShowUp, visit: HCAHealthONE.com.