National Jewish Health is a Denver, Colorado academic hospital/clinic doing research and treatment in respiratory, cardiac, immune and related disorders.

[1] By the late 19th century, Colorado and the American Southwest had become famous for the health benefits of a dry, sunny climate.

[6] After joining forces with a young rabbi, William Sterne Friedman, the two raised enough money to buy some land and erect a building.

[9] Despite its name, National Jewish treats all comers and emphasizes giving care to those who can't pay.

At the ground-breaking on October 9, 1892, it was noted that "…[Pain] knows no creed, so is this building the prototype of the grand idea of Judaism, which casts aside no stranger no matter of what race or blood.

[14] In the mid-1950s National Jewish Hospital maintained its tuberculosis work and built on its pulmonary focus to branch out into asthma and related respiratory ailments.

At the time of the merger, it was a national residential treatment facility for children with intractable asthma and a research hospital.

[16] National Jewish Health has no formal ties to any religious or quasi-religious institution and gets no funding from B'nai B'rith.

[18] Current departments include: The hospital operates Morgridge Academy on its main campus for kindergarten through eighth-grade children who are challenged with chronic illness.