About Us

Our Mission & Vision

“Healthy living should always be the default choice. Today it isn’t. We’re going to change that in a way that brings the best ideas, values, information, science and medicine together under one roof. As America’s premier integrated health and wellness center, the Colorado Center for Health and Wellness will make a healthy choice the preferred choice, add quality to people’s lives and help reverse the unsustainable rise in health care costs.”

— Executive Director Dr. James Hill

Coming in the spring of 2012, the Colorado Center for Health and Wellness will be an innovative, state-of-the art research, education and patient care facility located on the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

Our mission is to empower individuals, communities and organizations to make sustainable changes to achieve healthier lifestyles so that high obesity rates and chronic disease no longer reflect the way we live as a society.

The new Center – with its wealth of expertise, world-leading capabilities and resources led by Dr. James O. Hill, a renowned leader in the fight against the global obesity epidemic – is set to successfully take on this unique endeavor and begin to create new models for healthier change.

Our Facility

The Anschutz Wellness Building incorporates healthy living into the facility’s very design.

The Health and Wellness Center will offer leading-edge facilities, services and programs, including:

Research labs and equipment for cutting-edge scientific studies on nutrition and wellness
State-of-the-art fitness facility, including classes, running track, aquatics and degreed fitness professionals
A bistro that will serve healthy food, available for eat-in, take-out or delivery
Classes and cooking workshops on healthy diets with leading nutritionists and endocrinologists
Weight management and nutrition services, disease prevention programs and wellness education
Integrative medicine (such as massage therapy acupuncture and more)
Health and wellness products for purchase
A staff of some of the world’s leading experts in health and wellness

This will be an ongoing list of answers to the questions submitted to us. If you have any questions, please email info@coloradocenter.com and we will be sure to get back to you quickly.

Q: Who will have access to the Anschutz Wellness Building?

A: The new building will be available for use by University of Colorado students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the community.

All research, training and programs at the Colorado Center for Health and Wellness are be led by the largest and most talented and dedicated inter-disciplinary team in the field. The team is led by Dr. James O. Hill, a renowned leader in the fight against the global obesity epidemic.

Partners &
Affiliated Programs

Our aim is to create science-based programs, education and initiatives that promote health and wellbeing and positively impact people’s lives. These programs were developed by creating new thinking, evaluating the new concepts, and developing, implementing and assessing projects in the community.

In the News

Health Policy Solutions: Health and wellness center breaking new ground in obesity treatment (Oct. 11, 2011)

(excerpt) Now under construction, the center will combine multiple functions in one building: state-of-the-art research, education, patient care facilities and a high-end fitness center. The concept is to unite cutting-edge science with direct patient intervention.

“We think we will set a new standard. We’ve put things together in a seamless way from discovery of research to taking that research out and impacting people’s lives,” said Dr. James O. Hill, executive director.

Aurora Sentinel: Wellness Center to offer fusion of new, alternative approaches to healing (Oct. 12, 2011)

(excerpt) The Health & Wellness Center will offer a new approach to health, a comprehensive program rooted in prevention and everyday care. The new center will combine the resources of a neighborhood gym with the cutting-edge research of a top-tier medical school, it will combine the hipness of an urban bistro with the focused science of a weight control program.

“This facility will become a one-stop shop and national model for how health and wellness can be integrated, allowing us to generate and translate science into actual products and programs to change people’s lives,” Executive Director James Hill told the Aurora Sentinel. “We will emphasize the need for ‘lifestyle medicine’ in an effort to support prevention and manage chronic disease.”

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