Volume 2, Issue 20
Through April 13, 2009 |
New Touchworks Goes Live; Questions Remain
More than 1,000 users in 27 outpatient clinics now use Version 11, which offers plenty of advantages. But the hospital's roll-out team is still squashing bugs and helping practices adapt to the new application. |
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| Colleen Goode spends her final day at the hospital April 3. | |
A Dozen Eventful
Years Later, Colleen Goode Steps Down
Confident in her successor and the state of the hospital, the influential chief nursing officer walks the halls one last time April 3. Inside: Goode looks back on her career and a future that not surprisingly will still include nursing. |
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| When it comes to sample tubes, just an inch makes a big difference. | |
Longer Tubes Shorten Lab Wait Times
Adding 25 millimeters to blood sample tubes is helping Clinical Lab get test results back to clinicians faster and more accurately. How they do it: |
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| Joseph Kay, MD, directs UCH's Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program. | |
Program Probes Heart of Adult Cardiac Issues
The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at UCH provides much needed help for patients afflicted since birth with a variety of cardiac problems. |
Preceptors Help Guide Nurse Colleagues
More than 600 strong, preceptors act as mentors for nurses finding their way at UCH. The program recently recognized two for their exceptional work. | |
Patient parking to increase; new parking arrangements for employees Providing help for patients desperate for parking spaces drives the change, which goes into effect April 20, hospital leaders say. The number of employee spaces will not decrease, but some will move to a UCD garage north of the hospital and employees will pay to park in the spaces in the surface lot west of the AIP. 
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Frequently asked parking questions Answers to questions about the new parking plan and how it will work, plus a map of the new configuration.
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Inside the Insider: Parking and other rites of spring Commentary: Flowers emerging, birds singing, an e-mail box for parking complaints filling. It must be spring at UCH. Plus: what you read.
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Tales of four who quit Worry, inconvenience and the hospital's tobacco ban led four UCH employees to kick their cigarette habits. David Orgill (above) and three others tell their stories.
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A new way to order documents debuts The "Documents on Demand" system of ordering printed documents, hand-built years before electronic ordering was common, is will be replaced by a "DocStore" April 3.
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Some surprises in youth diabetes research An influential study at University of Colorado Denver and five other sites found diabetes may take root in life earlier than was thought and render the term "adult onset diabetes" obsolete. Researcher Dana Dabelea (above), principal investigator at UCD, says the search for answers about the disease continues.
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"Pink Lady" era ends, with some regret, in Volunteer office The demographic profile and job descriptions of hospital volunteers have shifted dramatically since the move from Ninth Avenue and the start of the recession.
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Regina Fink's "book of the year" The American Journal of Nursing called Secrets of Oncology Nursing, co-authored by UCH research nurse scientist Fink (above), one of the top reads of 2008. A big cast of UCH authors also contributed to the third edition.
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Students dip toe in real world at UCH Both students and the hospital benefit from a corporate work-study program run by Denver's Arrupe Jesuit High School.
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UCH in the News Prostate debate; shining a light on vitamin D; cash for care; more. Mentions: Venu Akuthota, Al Barqawi, E. David Crawford, Stephen Daniels, Mark Earnest, Adit Ginde.
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Around UCH Our regular look at goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: record number of UCH Nightingale Award finalists (one of the three, Sue West, with Colleen Goode, above); April awareness for donors, occupational therapy; silver award for Stroke Program; more...
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