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| Charge AHT Nicole Thomasson takes blood from patient during midmorning rounds to collect lab samples. | |
4 A.M. in the Critical Care Wing: AHTs Take Flight
Every morning -- and throughout the day and night -- a fast, precise team of ancillary health techs launches a "friendly invasion" of the AIP that helps keep the hospital humming.  |
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| Anne Lynch, MD, prinicipal investigator for the EAGeR study at UCD, hopes to enroll 100 participants.. | |
Is Aspirin the Latest in Repro Medicine?
UCD has joined three other medical centers in the EAGeR trial, an effort to find out if low-dose aspirin can help women who have suffered pregancy loss conceive. |
15 Years Later, Landmark Cancer Study Still Yields Data
One of 10 sites chosen for the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, UCD conducted its last screening exam four years ago. But the trial is still producing plenty of discussion, debate and valuable research data. |
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| Charles Turley still finds ways to contribute to the hospital and the PLCO office. | |
PLCO Trial Participant Never Stopped Giving
A decade and a half after he enrolled in the PLCO trial, Charles Turley is still a fixture around the office and the hospital, where he's volunteered more than 2,600 hours of service. |
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| Dave Vandenberg (left) with the Who's Roger Daltrey in 1994. | |
UCH's Rock-n-Roll Photographer
Hospital staffer Dave Vandenberg has been taking photos of big-name musicians -- from Jerry Garcia to Jon Bon Jovi to Roger Daltrey -- during the past 20 years. Doing so, he says, just may have saved his life. | |
"Through-put" experiment pays off One of two pilot programs underway to serve patients in a more timely fashion, a "lean management" effort on the 12 West Medicine Unit has quadrupled the percentage of patients discharged before 2 p.m. Can the success be duplicated hospital-wide? 
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Talk to him There was no agenda, no presentation. But during the first of his informal "Talk to Me" presentations, Bruce Schroffel shot the breeze with employees on topics ranging from what makes a "top 10" hospital to information systems to, yes, parking.
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UCH takes to cyberspace for physician, staff instruction Visits, classes, e-mails, CDs and blogs didn't get enough people to adopt the new powers of Touchworks. Now, looking for a new strategy, Medical Informatics and Ambulatory Services have gone YouTube. Video instruction is tougher than it looks, trainers have found.
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Inside the Insider: Tuning in to the tech-resistant Commentary: Are doubts about EMRs, Twitter, Blackberries and social media just stubborness or something a little more human? Plus: what you read and what you said.
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Reducing the number of "frequent flyers" in the ED A new UCH/School of Medicine effort seeks to identify and help to manage chronic care patients who may overuse the ED.
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Taking the lead in dialysis The hospital's Chronic Dialysis Unit has quietly become a leader in a procedure that improves outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease.
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Increasing numbers of women turn to midwives Drawn by a greater sense of control, perceived improvements in empathy and more, greater numbers of women at UCH and around the country are choosing midwives to guide their pregnancies.
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Sidebar: A change in delivery Her pregnancy veered in an unexpected direction, but Shemikwa Novachich (left, with husband and newborn son) says a UCH midwife never left her side.
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A lonely new mom, an infant in distress, a father far away A strange coincidence compelled three UCH staffers to unite a troubled family for a bittersweet hour before sorrow struck.
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Cinema for a swipe A DVD kiosk on trial in the AIP lets patients and visitors rent first-run movies with a credit card swipe.
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UCH in the News Swine flu dress rehearsal; exercise let-down; fat and insulin resistance; more. Mentions: Michelle Barron, Bryan Bergman, Robert Eckel, Richard Johnson, Bonnie Jortberg, Doris Kimbrough, Edward Melanson, Leigh Perreault, and Robert Valuck.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: a new CIO (left); social worker of the year in the Chronic Dialysis Unit; paternity and adoption benefits; Bleeding Hearts update; more...
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