Top Companies: Healthcare – ColoradoBiz

Going on 37 years, the ColoradoBiz Top Company Awards are older than some of the founders whose businesses are now vying for the award.

It’s a distinction that hasn’t gotten any easier to win since the Top Company program was introduced in 1987 – nor any easier to judge.

In the end, 45 companies hailing from 18 Colorado cities were honored as either winners or finalists in 14 industries, plus the Startup category for companies five years old or less.

All the companies that put themselves out there and entered the competitive arena deserve credit for helping to keep Top Company the coveted honor it’s been for decades.

Leiters Health is an FDA-registered 503B outsourcing provider of compounded medications and pharmacy services. The organization supplies ready-to-use medications to hospitals, surgery centers, physician offices and clinics. Leiters Health helps its health-care customers gain more control over their medication supply by serving as an extension of their pharmacy, helping them to standardize their portfolio, prevent shortages and determine when to outsource or compound in-house.

In 2020, early in the Covid-19 pandemic, health-care providers experienced a nationwide shortage of critically needed medicines such as those needed to induce or maintain sedation, neuromuscular blocking agents used for rapid intubation, and analgesia to maintain comfort for patients under mechanical ventilation. Leiters shifted manufacturing priorities and production capabilities to manufacture these critically needed medicines. In 2021, when general surgical procedures returned to normal levels, the company balanced its production schedule by continuing to produce these medications and also resumed manufacturing a standard portfolio of hospital surgical and ophthalmology medications.

Leiters Health leverages its pharmaceutical expertise, automated sterile facilities, extensive testing and innovative packaging to deliver a consistent supply of high-quality compounded sterile preparations. Every pharmaceutical produced at Leiters undergoes rigorous quality assurance processes and comprehensive testing prior to release. Its vision is to be the essential partner in providing the highest quality, critically needed medicines that health-care providers need to treat and care for patients, and that ultimately enhance the quality of patients’ lives.

Veterinarians would like to spend more time with animals and less time on their computers. Western Veterinary Partners helps these professionals and provides more than 250 veterinary practices back-end support including recruiting, finance/accounting, marketing, procurement, HR and more. Founded in 2019, the company’s mission is to improve the lives of veterinarians and help them grow professionally and personally, while providing a supportive environment for team members, families and their pets.

Western Veterinary Partners works collaboratively with partner veterinarians across the U.S. to help relieve the stresses of running and managing a practice on a day-to-day basis. As a result, veterinarians are able to spend a greater amount of their time and attention on delivering exceptional clinical care. The organization prides itself on being people-centric and strives to foster connection and cultivate a community for veterinarians and veterinary professionals to share knowledge and best practices. Female- and doctor-led, 88% of Western Veterinary Partners employees are female.

Western Veterinary Partners supports groups such as Street Dog Coalition, which provides free medical care and support to pets of people at risk of or experiencing homelessness; the LGBTQ+ Veterinary Medical Community PrideVMC, NOMV (Not One More Vet), which supports mental health in the profession; Women in Leadership and Management in Animal Health (WILMAH), and the Veterinary Business Management Association (VBMA). Western Veterinary Partners hospitals work with local charities and animal rescue groups in their communities.

A surge in the number of people seeking treatment for eating disorders in recent years has inspired treatment providers to develop new programs and expand their offerings. EDCare, a provider of comprehensive eating disorder treatment services, launched virtual treatment options to ensure that more individuals can access the care they need, regardless of their location or schedule. EDCare also opened the Adolescent Eating Disorder Treatment Program for teens to address the growing need among patients ages 13-17. This fall it will expand the Denver treatment center to double the number of adolescent patients and families it can serve. Also this fall, EDCare will open a Denver residential treatment program for adults, to provide intensive, round-the-clock care for adults with severe eating disorders.

In 2022, EDCare opened its Athlete EDGE program in Denver. Athlete EDGE at EDCare is a highly specialized eating disorder treatment program dedicated to providing a higher level of care specifically tailored for high-performance athletes with eating disorders. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, citing a 2021 study, in a sample of competitive athletes, over 86% met criteria for an eating disorder.

Founded in Denver in 2001, EDCare also operates in Overland Park, Kansas, and Omaha, Nebraska. To raise awareness about eating disorders, EDCare attends and sponsors conferences and association-related events throughout the year and frequently offers free educational presentations for primary care offices, dental groups, schools, coaches and other key influencers.