Colorado Hospital Association

Name

Colorado Hospital Association

Legal name

Colorado Hospital Association

Website

https://cha.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1921

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Greenwood Village

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: CHA generates revenue through membership dues from over 100 hospitals and health systems across Colorado. Membership provides access to advocacy, education, data analytics, and shared services.
2. CHA Shared Services: CHA Shared Services is a subsidiary providing strategic services including CHA Financial Advisors, CHA Career Center, CHA Workers' Compensation Trust, and unemployment representation that generate revenues supporting CHA membership.
3. CHA Broadband Services: State consortium leader administering federal dollars to help healthcare entities in underserved areas gain broadband connectivity.
4. Education and Events: Revenue from educational programs, conferences, webinars, and annual meetings including the CHA Annual Meeting, CEO Forum, and Rural Hospital Conference.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) is a non-profit membership association representing 100+ hospitals and health systems across Colorado. It delivers advocacy at state and federal levels, operates proprietary hospital data analytics platforms (ODHIN and DATABANK), runs shared services subsidiaries covering financial advisory, career placement, workers' compensation, and unemployment representation, administers a state broadband consortium for healthcare entities, and supports clinical excellence through the Center for Clinical Leadership and Excellence and the Hospital Transformation Program.

Product overview

The Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) operates as a membership organization representing 100+ hospitals and health systems in Colorado, providing a portfolio of data analytics platforms, member services, and clinical excellence programs. The core data infrastructure includes ODHIN (discharge data program), DATABANK (financial and utilization data across nine states), and multiple Power BI-based dashboards for hospital financial margins, maternal health, Medicaid, uninsured rates, and community health data. CHA also provides shared services including broadband connectivity programs, financial advisory services, career center, and workers' compensation trust. The Center for Clinical Leadership and Excellence (CCLE) supports quality improvement and patient safety, while the Hospital Transformation Program (HTP) coordinates a five-year value-based care initiative with over $1 billion at risk for participating hospitals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ODHIN (On Demand Hospital Information Network) Dynamic discharge data analytics platform providing CHA member hospitals with dashboards for patient movement, service line analysis, utilization data, payer mix, market share, behavioral health, and population health reports.
• DATABANK Online benchmarking platform collecting self-reported hospital utilization and financial data from 400+ hospitals across nine states, enabling trend analysis and automated quality checks with customizable peer groups.
• CHA Shared Services For-profit CHA subsidiary providing strategic operational services to member hospitals including financial advisory, career placement, workers' compensation trust, and unemployment representation.
• CHA Financial Advisors Financial advisory and retirement planning services for CHA member hospitals, operating as part of CHA Shared Services.
• CHA Workers' Compensation Trust Workers' compensation services and coverage for member hospitals, operating as part of CHA Shared Services.
• CHA Career Center Career placement and employment services supporting CHA member hospitals with workforce recruitment needs.
• CHA Broadband Services State consortium administering federal funding to provide broadband connectivity to healthcare entities in underserved areas of Colorado.
• Center for Clinical Leadership and Excellence (CCLE) CHA department supporting member hospitals in delivering excellent patient care through quality improvement, patient safety initiatives, maternal health, opioid safety, infection prevention, and clinical best practices programs.
• Hospital Transformation Program (HTP) Five-year value-based care initiative CHA coordinates with HCPF focused on improving access, quality, efficiency, and integration for Medicaid beneficiaries, with more than $1 billion at risk for participating hospitals.
• CHA Education and Events Member education offering including webinars, face-to-face events, the CHA Annual Meeting, CEO Forum, and Rural Hospital Conference focusing on current healthcare topics.
• CHA Hospital Community Data Tool Power BI dashboard tool providing hospital data by state, legislative district, and individual hospital, including county-level health and hospital data and resource pages with methodology.

Quantifiable outcome

• $4.2 billion in federal dollars brought to Colorado annually through HPF/CHASE
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• LateralCarecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2026LateralCare and Colorado Hospital Association announced a partnership to improve financial resilience and revenue cycle management for hospitals across Colorado. The partnership aims to address increasing financial pressures on providers by implementing AI-native strategies and innovation in revenue cycle operations.
• Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative (CPCQC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCHA partners with Colorado's leading perinatal health organization for maternal health quality improvement. The collaboration works on statewide delivery trends, demographic data analysis, and improving perinatal outcomes.
• Colorado Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Enterprise (CHASE)coreOthersCHA is a key stakeholder in CHASE, which administers the Hospital Provider Fee bringing $4.2 billion in federal dollars annually. CHA represents hospitals on the CHASE Board overseeing the Hospital Transformation Program.
• American Hospital Association (AHA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCHA works in partnership with AHA on federal legislative issues to represent Colorado hospitals on Capitol Hill. CHA keeps Colorado's congressional delegation informed with analysis of proposed federal health policy legislation.
• Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF)coreOthersCHA collaborates with HCPF on Medicaid policy, Hospital Transformation Program, and healthcare financing for Colorado.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems: State hospital association where CHA's current CEO Jeff Tieman previously served as President and CEO. Direct state-level peer operating the same hospital association model in Vermont.
• Texas Hospital Association: Major state hospital association in Texas providing advocacy, education, and data analytics to member hospitals. Comparable structure to CHA with strong policy advocacy focus.
• Hospital Association of New York State: State hospital association serving New York's hospitals and health systems. Provides similar advocacy, data analytics, and shared services to its member hospitals as CHA does in Colorado.
• Ohio Hospital Association: State hospital association representing Ohio hospitals and health systems. Operates comparable data analytics platforms, advocacy services, and member programs to CHA.
• New Jersey Hospital Association: State hospital association in New Jersey providing advocacy, education, and data services to member hospitals. Operates the same membership association model as CHA.
• California Hospital Association: Large state hospital association representing California's hospitals and health systems. Operates the same advocacy, data, and shared services model as CHA, with CHA's Josh Hannes having previously worked in Wyoming's adjacent state association ecosystem.
• Florida Hospital Association: State hospital association serving Florida hospitals. Provides similar membership, advocacy, and data services to CHA, scaled to a larger hospital population.
• Wyoming Hospital Association: State hospital association in Wyoming where CHA's VP of Rural Policy Josh Hannes previously served as VP. Operates the same membership association model for Wyoming hospitals, including significant rural and frontier representation.
• Illinois Health and Hospital Association: State hospital association representing Illinois hospitals and health systems. Comparable advocacy, data, and member services model to CHA.

Broad incumbents

• American Hospital Association: National hospital association representing thousands of U.S. hospitals and health systems. CHA explicitly partners with AHA on federal advocacy on Capitol Hill, and AHA serves as the national-level counterpart to state hospital associations like CHA.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/COHospitalAssn
• Facebookfacebook.com/102229421246828
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/colorado-hospital-association

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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