Penrose-St. Francis Health Services

What Penrose-St. Francis Health Services does

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services operates Penrose Hospital, a 300-bed acute care community hospital located at 2222 N Nevada Ave in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Founded in 1890 by the Sisters of St. Francis and Sisters of Charity, Penrose is part of CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest nonprofit Catholic health systems in the United States, and operates within the CommonSpirit Mountain Region. The hospital employs 1,206 active medical staff and 1,456 total caregivers, operates 15 surgical suites, and recorded 36,124 emergency department visits in FY25. Service lines span cancer care, cardiac and vascular care, neurosciences (including a DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center), emergency and trauma care (Level II state designation and Level I ACS verification), orthopedics, primary care, women's health, bariatrics, behavioral health, and outpatient rehabilitation, supplemented by digital services such as a patient portal, virtual urgent care, and online scheduling.

The hospital generates revenue primarily through providing acute and outpatient healthcare services to patients covered by Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance, and self-pay. Pricing is structured around clinical service delivery rather than subscription or tiered SaaS models, with financial assistance and hospital discounted care available for qualifying patients; FY25 patient financial assistance totaled $33.9 million. As a nonprofit, Penrose reinvests revenue into clinical operations, infrastructure, and community benefit. The go-to-market motion is sales-led in the sense of referral-driven patient acquisition: emergency walk-ins, primary care physician referrals, specialist referrals, virtual urgent care, and online scheduling feed the patient pipeline.

In March 2025, the system expanded its footprint by opening St. Francis Hospital - Interquest, a new 48-bed campus on 58 acres at the intersection of Interquest Parkway and I-25 in northeast Colorado Springs, providing 10 ICU-capable beds, ten robotic-capable operating rooms, and a 14-bed emergency department. The hospital's competitive position rests on an unusual accumulation of Centers of Excellence designations (cancer, bariatric, pancreas, breast, rectal, lung, stroke, trauma), MD Anderson Physician Network membership, and operational metrics such as a 60-minute door-to-balloon time that is 33% faster than the ACC national benchmark of 90 minutes.

Name

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services

Legal name

Penrose Hospital (d/b/a CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region)

Website

https://penrosestfrancis.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1890

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Penrose Hospital is a 300-bed nonprofit acute care hospital in Colorado Springs, part of CommonSpirit Health, serving southern Colorado with emergency, trauma, cancer, cardiac, neurosciences, and outpatient services across a 1,206-staff medical team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pueblo

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: Penrose Hospital generates revenue through providing healthcare services to patients covered by insurance (Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance) and self-pay patients. Services include emergency care, surgical procedures, inpatient care, outpatient services, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, cancer treatments, cardiac procedures, and rehabilitation services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Penrose Hospital is a 300-bed acute care hospital providing comprehensive healthcare services across the continuum of care, including 24/7 emergency and Level II trauma care, cancer care (Commission on Cancer-designated), cardiac and vascular care, neurosciences and stroke care, bariatric surgery, orthopedics, primary care, women's health, behavioral health, and outpatient rehabilitation. Services are delivered to the general population of Colorado Springs and Southern Colorado through inpatient, outpatient, and digital channels.

Product overview

Penrose Hospital is a 300-bed acute care hospital offering a comprehensive portfolio of clinical services as part of the CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region system. The hospital provides integrated healthcare across multiple specialties including cancer care, cardiac/vascular services, neurosciences, emergency/trauma care, orthopedics, primary care, women's health, behavioral health, and rehabilitation services. The service portfolio includes both inpatient hospital-based care and outpatient clinical services, supported by digital offerings such as patient portal, virtual urgent care, and online scheduling. Specialty centers include a Cancer Center (CoC-designated), Level II Trauma Center, DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center, Bariatric Center of Excellence, and Lung Nodule Clinic. The hospital also operates support programs including John Zay Guest House for family accommodation, No One Dies Alone end-of-life companion program, Profile Employee Assistance Program, and Corporate Wellness services for employers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Heart attack patients receive care in an average of 60 minutes or less, which is 33% faster than the American College of Cardiology national benchmark of 90 minutes
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• MD Anderson Physician NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPenrose St. Francis cancer program is a member of the MD Anderson Physician Network. This partnership provides access to MD Anderson's standards of care, clinical protocols, and oncology expertise, enhancing the quality of cancer care delivered at Penrose Hospital. The affiliation demonstrates high-quality oncology care standards and provides patients access to coordinated cancer treatment closer to home.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• HCA Healthcare: The largest for-profit hospital operator in the U.S. with broad national presence in acute care. HCA sets the operational efficiency benchmark against which nonprofit systems like Penrose/CommonSpirit are evaluated, and operates in adjacent Mountain and Western markets.
• Intermountain Health: Large nonprofit integrated health system based in the Mountain West with significant Colorado presence following the SCL Health merger. Comparable in mission, nonprofit structure, and service-line breadth, and an emerging competitor for specialty referrals in the Front Range.
• Ascension Health: One of the largest Catholic nonprofit health systems in the U.S. and structurally similar to CommonSpirit Health. Shares comparable faith-based operating model, multi-state acute care portfolio, and system-level strategic decision-making dynamics.
• AdventHealth: Large nonprofit health system with a faith-based mission and broad national footprint. Operates comparable acute care hospitals with similar whole-person care positioning and serves as a peer benchmark for faith-based nonprofit hospital strategy.
• UCHealth: Large nonprofit Colorado-anchored health system and parent of the two Memorial hospitals. UCHealth has deeper system-level capital, academic medical center branding, and broader geographic reach, making it the dominant competitive force Penrose must defend against in Colorado.
• Tenet Healthcare: Large for-profit hospital operator with acute care hospitals and ambulatory operations nationally. Comparable in service-line breadth and provides the for-profit counterpoint to nonprofit hospital economics relevant to margin benchmarking.
• Banner Health: One of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S. with a strong Western U.S. footprint including Colorado. Operates comparable acute care hospitals with similar faith-inspired community-benefit missions and multi-state operating models analogous to CommonSpirit.

Emerging players

• Encompass Health: Largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in the U.S. While not a direct acute-care competitor, Encompass overlaps with Penrose's outpatient rehabilitation and post-acute service lines, and represents an emerging specialist pulling volume away from acute hospital rehab departments.

Direct peers

• UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central: UCHealth's flagship Colorado Springs hospital, located within the same primary market as Penrose. Offers overlapping trauma, cardiac, neurosciences, and comprehensive acute care services, competing directly for patients, physicians, and specialty referrals in the Pikes Peak region.
• UCHealth Memorial Hospital North: A second UCHealth hospital serving northern Colorado Springs with comparable emergency, surgical, and inpatient services. Functions as the most direct intra-city competitor and represents the kind of capacity expansion Penrose is attempting to counter through the new St. Francis Hospital - Interquest campus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/CommonSpiritMTN
• Facebookfacebook.com/penrosestfrancis
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/penrose-hospital
• Instagraminstagram.com/penrose_st_francis

Compliance12 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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