Volume 2, Issue 19
Through Mar. 30, 2009 |
UCD Announces Tobacco Ban
Effective April 6, the university, once the lone refuge for local smokers, will join UCH and The Children's Hospital in forbidding tobacco use on and near the Anschutz Medical Campus.  |
Stimulus Money Accelerates Key Highway Upgrade
Federal economic stimulus funds awarded to the City of Aurora to improve the I-225/Colfax Avenue interchange could provide relief for the thousands of patients, visitors and employees daily inching their way onto the Anschutz Medical Campus. |
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| UCH interventional cardiologist John Carroll displays patient-specific model of human heart he developed with James Chen. | |
Inventors of the Year
John Carroll, MD, and James Chen, PhD, won an award from the CU Technology Transfer Office in January, but for 18 years, the cardiologist and the engineer have been turning out startling advances in vascular imaging that neither could do on his own. |
Determined Practice Pulls off Turnaround
Careful review, process improvement and a vigorous commitment to communication helped pull Interventional Pain Management out of a hole. |
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| Inigo San Millan, PhD, director of UCH's Human Performance Laboratory, prefers science to subjectivity when it comes to exercise training. | |
The More You Sweat, the More You Lose?
Not true, says the director of UCH Sports Medicine's new Human Performance Lab, which uses myth-busting research to craft scientifically based training programs for elite athletes, weekend warriors and non-athletes looking to shed pounds. |
Spreading SPOREs
Specialists from the Breast Center and the melanoma program are vying for prestigious National Cancer Institute grants designed to speed research "from the bench to the bedside." | |
Employee badges to turn into debit cards Beginning April 2, UCH employees will be able to pay for food and drink at hospital cafes with a swipe of their badges. 
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"We're in incredible shape" That was one of the messages of Bruce's Schroffel's annual "State of the Hospital" address. But even as he listed the reasons, he sounded cautionary notes about patient satisfaction and the state of the economy.
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Early returns for Joint Commission fixes Making some of the fixes the Commission ordered last December was going to involve some complex physician-staff cooperation, as Regulatory Affairs coordinator Kristin Stocker (above) predicted last December. So far, so good.
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Inside the Insider: We was wrong! UCD's announcement it will soon go tobacco-free produced a John Stewart moment for us. But enforcing a tobacco ban with the university's state employees could prove legally trickier than it has been for hospital staffers. Plus: what you read.
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The most popular Web pages The number of "pageviews" on the UCH Web site fell slightly in February, possibly because it was a short month. Also: the top 25 pages of the month.
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Arthroscopy simulator generates buzz The device, which lets residents do "virtual" knee surgery without touching patients, could change the way we train surgeons. Plenty of residency programs expressed interest during a series of demonstrations at a major orthopedic association convention in February.
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Sidebar: simulator an overnight sensation a decade in the making A recent demonstration of the Knee Arthroscopy Simulator made virtual surgery look simple. Far from it, those closest to its development say.
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And a virtual human too New technology based on work by UCD's Center for Human Simulation is revolutionizing the way students learn anatomy.
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Employee clinic patient volume soars Thanks to a contract with The Children's Hospital, UCH's Employee Health & Wellness Clinic is now handling twice the number of visits it did last year.
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Low-tech leader UCH is the only hospital in the area to offer moms water birth aided by certified nurse midwives. It's a natural birthing process that may reduce labor pain and produce calmer babies.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: spring break celebration (above); Anschutz ophthalmology gift; tight university budget times; more...
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