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Failed inspection shut down one of Porter hospital’s boilers 18 days before second unit broke, state records show

Denver hospital evacuated patients, closed for 10 days after both of its boilers went down in October

Porter Adventist Hospital on April 22, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo By Kathryn Scott/Special to The Denver Post)
Porter Adventist Hospital on April 22, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo By Kathryn Scott/Special to The Denver Post)
Noelle Phillips of The Denver Post.
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State regulators informed AdventHealth Porter on Oct. 12 that one of the Denver hospital's two 50-year-old boilers was in such disrepair that it was no longer safe to operate and gave the health system 60 days to fix it or risk civil and criminal penalties.
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