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| Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center and Denver Health
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The RADARS System is a nonprofit operation of the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center (RMPDC),
a division of Denver Health (DH).
 A comprehensive integrated health care system, DH operates as a highly efficient major Colorado business. It employs 4,400 people and has an annual budget of more than $450 million. DH is the safety net hospital for the City and County of Denver and is the Rocky Mountain region’s academic Level I trauma center and includes Denver Public Health, Denver's 911 emergency medical response system, nine family health centers, 12 school-based clinics, NurseLine, correctional care, Denver CARES, the Denver Health Medical Plan, and the Rocky Mountain Center for Medical Response to Terrorism, Mass Casualties and Epidemics.
 For more than 50 years, the RMPDC, a division of Denver Health, has provided an essential service to the citizens of Colorado and several other states. Highly trained nurses, pharmacists, physicians, pharmacologists and other medical professionals are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, responding each year to more than 400,000 callers who have questions about medical issues, such as accidental poisoning, drug overdose, chemical exposure, poisonous bites and stings, and drug interactions. In addition to its primary mission of assisting in the counseling of patients, RMPDC and other poison centers work closely with government agencies and industry to promote dissemination of safety information to the public.
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