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Volume 2, Issue 14
Through Jan. 19, 2009 |
Would You Recommend UCH?
Annual bonuses partially depend on how patients answer this question from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In December, 80 percent answered "yes," giving UCH a "9" or "10." Next goal: consistently achieving high scores. |
Kathy Boyle Shares Her Memories of UCH
As she leaves UCH after 25 years, the senior director of Patient Services (above) takes with her memories of opening a new hospital, pioneering a new model of patient care and -- honest -- running up 9th Avenue in a flight suit. |
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| Linda Overholser, MD (left) and Alison Jones, ND, RN, worked closely to launch clinic for adult survivors of cancer. | |
New Breeds of Cancer Patients, New Clinic
Physicians find once-rare survivors in need of properly directed primary care during their long post-cancer lives. UCH opens a unique Internal Medicine clinic for them later this month. |
Managing Stress Is No Stretch with Yoga
Organized by The Center for Integrative Medicine and financed by HR, the free weekly class in the AOP looks to ease stress, increase flexibility and strength and could yield powerful benefits for employees and patients. |
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| UCH's Nancy Ireland (second from left), with fellow "5 Points of Life" riders who pedaled more than 2,000 miles to promote donor awareness. | |
Rider for Donor Awareness Reels off Miles, Memories
It's been more than two months since UCH transplant coordinator Nancy Ireland finished a 2,000-mile bike ride to raise donor awareness, but the memories and lessons of the experience have only grown stronger. | |
UCH scores high in academic hospital quality rankings Call them "mortality rates" or call them "survival rates," but UCH ranked as the best nationwide among academic hospitals in six different services during the second quarter of 2008. 
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A first in health information UCH is among the first four health care organizations in the state to join CORHIO, a new system for sharing patient information. It faces major funding and liability challenges, but the benefits may be too great to pass up, says Senior Director of Medical Informatics CT Lin, MD (above). Plus: how CORHIO works.
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Number of job vacancies at hospital declines And the nursing vacancy rate, which has hovered at 80 or more the past year, is down to 65.
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Pilot program makes managing diabetes a group effort The program, inspired by an idea developed by physicians in Italy and funded by a hospital grant, will host group visits to glean valuable information about patients' experiences with the disease, says Internal Medicine's Ingrid Lobo, MD (above).
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Inside the Insider: Why health care reform hurts. Commentary: the benefits of hospitals sharing information are obvious -- for patients and insurance companies. Plus: what you read; Steve Ringel's Joint Commission "thank you" to employees.
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A sit-down on patient sat Intent on improving its inconsistent patient satisfaction scores (see related story, above left), the hospital invited Press Ganey representatives and colleagues from other hospitals for an information and brainstorming session. A key take-away, says HR's Kelley Williamson (above), is hospitals need to pay more attention than ever to customer service issues.
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Getting a job via Webcam UCH recently interviewed (and hired) a job applicant by Webcam for the first time. With savings and convenience for all, HR says it won't be the last.
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Bid adieu to "Mr. Gallagher" The hospital plans to retire the enigmatic moniker for fire warning announcements in favor of the more straightforward "Code Red."
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Around UCH Our regular look at goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: presents for NICU tots (above); award for CeDAR; Aurora Court snafu; more.
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Campus donors fill two libraries The ongoing outreach by UCH and its Anschutz Medical Campus partners to two nearby schools yielded 900 books for kids, some of whom had never had one of their own before.
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UCH in the news. UCH key player in information-sharing initiative; reflections on a colleague lost; diabetes and siblings; what's your fruit?; more. Mentions: Gerard Barber, Tim Byers, E. David Crawford, George Eisenbarth, Michael Savage, Bruce Schroffel, Rachel Van Pelt.
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