Andrea Burch, MS, RN, NEA-BC, has been named president of Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge. She has been serving as Lutheran’s interim president since February when Scott Peek transitioned to the president at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. He is also Intermountain Health’s Front Range Market president. Burch will continue to support Lutheran’s integration
In the 1970s, those who fought in the Vietnam War were largely either ignored or vilified for serving their country, unlike veterans of other, perhaps more popular, wars. In recent years, organizations and politicians have sought to correct that error and let those veterans know that their valor and service are appreciated. Since 2021, March
Rodney “Rod” Ward Henderson and his wife, Sandra, moved from Nebraska to the Wheat Ridge area in 1963. Rodney left his teaching profession in 1967 and went to work in the HVAC industry. He eventually started his own HVAC Company, Action Air Inc., and retired in 1996. Sandra worked as a schoolteacher for a short
Many consider Lutheran Medical Center to be the fabric of Wheat Ridge. With humble beginnings as a tuberculosis sanitarium in 1905, Lutheran has experienced over a century of growth and expansion to meet the community’s healthcare needs. It is the only hospital in Jefferson County that cares for patients from their first breath to their
