Message From Our President and CEO

National Jewish Health - A Unique Health Care Experience

Being cared for at National Jewish Health is a unique health care experience. Patients come from around the world to seek our expertise and receive the highest quality individualized attention and care. We believe in offering more than a brief 15-minute patient encounter or just writing a few prescriptions. We provide the comprehensive education and care that our patients need.

We also integrate our research and clinical efforts at the point of the patient, so that patients have access to the latest medical advances and great discoveries made in not only our labs but also others around the world. It is the philosophy of National Jewish Health to take these discoveries and integrate them into our programs to deliver the very best in preventive and personalized medicine. 

As a nonprofit institution since 1899, National Jewish Health continues to provide substantial amounts of charity care, which is generously supported by donors from around the world.

Since the first patient entered our doors more than 125 years ago, we have expanded our areas of expertise and developed many unique programs that set us apart from other institutions. We operate a kindergarten through eighth grade day school for children who are challenged with chronic illness. We also provide the largest and nationally renowned smoking and vaping cessation program in the country. We have assisted more than 2.5 million people on their journey to quit via our Internet and phone program, addressing this leading cause of behavior-associated, preventable death in the United States.

Our dedicated faculty and staff continue to develop other new and unique programs that address total health as part of our commitment to move from reactive to proactive medicine. This commitment by the faculty and staff at National Jewish Health has helped us earn recognition as the leading respiratory hospital in the nation. We will continue to meet and exceed your expectations in all areas of the care we deliver.

Michael Salem, MD, FACS
President & CEO