The story
Denver Health Medical Center was established in 1860 as City Hospital. The hospital was founded near 11th and Wazee, but in 1873, a new medical center was built at the corner of 6th Avenue and Cherokee; this is where Denver Health Main Campus is located to this day. Denver Health has gone by many names, including City Hospital, the Poor House, County Hospital, Arapahoe County Hospital, Denver General Hospital in 1923, and now Denver Health Medical Center in 1997.
The hospital was well known for founding the first nursing school west of the Mississippi and for being one of the earliest facilities for treating tuberculosis.
The hospital employed many health care visionaries, including Florence Sabin, who was instrumental in creating a functional public health department.
In 1989, a book was written about the Denver General emergency room, The Knife and Gun Club, Scenes from an Emergency Room by photographer Eugene Richards which received an Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians. The book is a collection of stories taken from the emergency department and ambulances. The emergency room of Denver Health gained the nickname "Knife and Gun Club" due to the frequency of knife and gun related injuries.
From Wikipedia’s article on Denver Health, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4