My mom and her husband had three spine surgeries each and my wife is under the knife as we speak. We wouldn’t have ANYONE else do this surgery! Highly qualified! Great conscience and care for his patients.

I had back surgery in September and everything went great. I have no pain now. Dr. Coester and his staff were great. I would highly recommend Dr. Coester.

Excellent results from removal of spinal cyst, removal of second re-growth cyst, and a spinal fusion.I walk daily and enjoy my life. Have met other patients who are just as greatful!Without Coester’s expertise, I wouldn’t be alive point blank. What else can one say....

He operated on my neck recently and has changed my life. After 5 years of arm pain 2 surgeries at OCR, Dr. Coester fixed me. He is extremely knowledgeable, kind, and an excellent surgeon. Thank you Dr. Coester. I knew immediately, when I woke up that the surgery was successful. Highly recommend!!

I was paralyzed by a rouge beyblade flying at my spinal cord at mach speed. He did a fusion and gave me a second chance at life. Its because of him that I can go out there and let it rip. Thanks, Dr. Coester.

Horrible staff. Waited and waited and waited for Ericka to call me back for two days despite the calls I made to her so I can try and figure out if surgery or injection would be the best option for me. She was to call me on Thurs at 11 to discuss it. I missed her call because I had to use the bathroom and unfortunately forgot to take my phone. I called back within 30 minutes but was told to just leave her a message and shed call me back as soon as she was off the phone. Three hours later...still no call. I called back and was assured she will return my call. Nope! Called back today and the receptionist told me that Ericka told her to tell me that she would call me right back when she was off the phone. Fours hours later and its now 7pm and guess what? NO CALL. Very unprofessional and doesnt care that a patient is in pain. My husband will probably not go see Dr. Coester after this. How can a staff member completely disregard a patient who is suffering from 3 comprised vertebrae and is in EXTREME pain and can barely walk more than 10 minutes? So I dont reccomend this office unless you can wait and wait for a response. Dr. Coester lost my business because if a staff member that didnt care. I wish I didnt even have to give 1 star but Ill give that star to Dr. Coester himself because I know he is a fine surgeon that worked with a group of other surgeons.

The finest Neurosurgeon in Colorado, the West, and possibly the country. Well known and respected. If my child needed the expertise of a neurosurgeon I wouldnt hesitate to call Dr Coester.

Just a small note: I was within 1-2 weeks from becoming Tetraplegia, also known as quadriplegia, is a paralysis caused by illness or injury that results in the partial or total loss of use of all four limbs and torso; paraplegia is similar but does not affect the arms. The loss is usually sensory and motor, which means that both sensation and control are lost. Dr. Hans Coester and Dr. Allison Nichols, performed emergency surgery the next morning, The surgery was successful, though the issue was advanced and no guarantee the surgery would have success, I had bruised my spinal cord severely a long with the main two nerves that controls both upper and lower extremities, now after the Cervical Spinal Fusion I have approx. 85% of my mobility back and after seeing the doctor yesterday, the doctor indicated that I was progressing along as normal and now its time to start physical therapy 3x weekly, I hope to start my therapy within the next 1-2 weeks, I am so looking forward to. Again a Big Thank You to Dr. Coester and Dr. Nichols and all their staff.

Dr. Coester is amazing! Goes above and beyond for his patients.His staff on the other hand are rude!

I am a high level dressage horse trainer and clinician. Ive had a few injuries and Im now in my late 50s. I first met Dr. Coester at PVH in 1999. I had broken my neck. He had located an old unstable fracture that I had tried to get doctors to take seriously for years. Instead of rushing me to surgery he stabilized both fractures and I was back in the saddle.A couple years later I had developed sciatica, from a fall I had suffered while riding a very green horse. My bad was a mess, with fractures, stenosis, bulged disks etc. He preformed a fusion and completely fixed my back pain. I was back in the saddle in a week with no pain. That must have been in 2003 or so. A few years later I had ripped some muscles in my back. He said there was nothing he could do for that, but he recommended removing the hardware from the surgery,explaining that the hardware itself can cause discomfort. He again was right. The pain reduced markedly after the hardware was removed. Now in 2016 I again have three bulged discs and a fracture. The only part of my back that is sound and pain free is the lower lumbar where Dr. Coester did his magic. Today I find out what he wants to do with my back. I trust him completely! Why wouldnt I?Dr. Coester is also a good person. Nurses like working with him. Hes a true dog lover. He spend time doing habitat for humanity projects and gives to charities he believes in. He is not surgery happy, bt is honest and cares for his patients.

Cant say how this Dr is because he refused to see me. Scheduled a appointment mid last month informed them about my past medical history asked if I needed a referral or anything else was told no. I mailed in my MRI and never got any paperwork from them as stated in would. So after driving 4 plus hrs 1 way checking in filling out paperwork and waiting 30 mins in a rm his assistant came in and stated that the Dr was refusing to see me because I had had a surgery in the past 12 months. I told her I had told them that when I made the appointment and was told it wasnt a problem and that my past Dr had told me to seek out a different dr as he could not longer help me. I got a very blunt well thats not our problem its policy and that I shouldnt of ever been able to make the appointment in the first place and that I needed to look elsewhere where as they wont even give me a referral. Im sorry this isnt how someone with a chronic problem should be treated and if your staff doesnt know what your office policy is then you need different staff. UC health can take a flying leap for all I can Ive had some bad drs in the past but this is right there with the worst of them

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The Communication between the staff is horrible. Dr Coesters PA is unable to make a decision so we have to wait to here from the Dr, which according to the office manager, can take 7-10 days. When we call to speak with the PA, someone else calls back. Cant say we had a good experience there.