*1951: Voters approve City Charter amendment, which divides Health and Charity into two smaller departments: Department of Health and Hospitals and Department of Welfare. Amendment stipulates that Health and Hospitals manager is to be a physician and with public health training. A seven-member board appointed by mayor sets policy.
*January 14, 1953: Mayor Quigg Newton orders closure of Denver Farm, saying that buildings don't meet minimum safety standards and that it's too far away to provide medical care to 75 remaining patients.
*1956: Hospital capacity is 443 beds.
*June 30, 1961: University of Colorado and Denver General sever relationship.
*September 1962: Planning board recommends that Denver's emergency and indigent patients be treated in a new wing for Denver residents to be erected at CU's Colorado General Hospital.
*March 1963: Mayor Batterton rules out closing DG.
*April 1963: Board of Health and Hospitals recommends new hospital complex be built.
*1963: ER remodeled.
*June 30, 1964: Denver voters approve $9 million bond issue to build new city hospital.
*July 7, 1965: Speer Hospital becomes Ward 18, a holding unit for people in police custody who should not be jailed, but require more custodial care.
*August 1966: New agreement between Denver General Hospital and CU.
*March 1966: East Side Health Center Opens.
*1967: The Nurses' Home, which is 30 years old, is demolished to make way for a new hospital.
*1968: Westside Health Center Opens.
*January 1971: New $12.5 million hospital opens at the corner of Eighth and Bannock.
*1973: Emergency Department gets fulltime director.
*1981: Department of Health and Hospitals budget reduced by $10 million.
*January 1, 1997: Denver Health and Hospitals becomes a quasi-state agency known as Denver Health and Hospital Authority.
*May 2003: Pavilion B, a $46 million facility, opens.
*August 2006: Pavilion C, an $85 million facility for women and children, opens.
*September 2008: Pediatric emergency room opens.
*2008: $318 million in uncompensated care is given.