A "Cautious" New Hospital Budget
On the verge of finishing its best financial year ever, the hospital projects more modest earnings growth in Fiscal Year 2010, which begins next week.  |
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| UM-Denver - General Internal Medicine hopes to complete its move to this Lowry Boulevard location early in 2010. | |
UM-Denver Practice Gets Nod to Move to Lowry in 2010
After months of looking for a new home, the practice is set to move to a new central Denver location, where it plans to redesign how it delivers care "from the ground up." |
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| Finding a new hospital CIO was a little like finding a needle in a haystack. | |
Finding Mr. Right (CIO) No Easy Task
In fact, it took more than six months and two nationwide searches before the hospital settled on just the right person as its chief information officer. Plus: the dozen who searched for one. |
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| Peter Chase of the Barbara Davis Center (right), with two members of his diabetes research team. | |
A Bionic Pancreas?
The Barbara Davis Center's original full-time physician is still at it, trying to tie continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps into a virtual pancreas for type 1 diabetes patients. |
UCH in the News
In this issue: bringing medicine to the plains; sinuses and toxic shock; medical homes training for residents, more. Mentions: Kathi Bunzli, Kenny Chan, Mark Deutchman, Perry Dickinson, George Eisenbarth, Laurie Gaspar, Amiee Orf, Susan West. | |
"One big information system" wins approval The hospital's Board gave final approval June 18 to an expensive integrated health information system from Wisconsin-based Epic (headquarters, above) that promises to change the way employees and physicians work and care for patients. Plus: HR, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain and Payroll will consolidate software apps, too. 
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The factors a successful hospital needs The hospital is rolling out a set of "Critical Success Factors," measures it deems essential to achieving its clinical, financial, operational and employee engagement goals. An upcoming communication plan will keep employees up to date on the progress toward meeting the targets.
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Hospital to open new radiation oncology facility near Park Meadows In a joint venture that includes University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, UCH will be the first in the metro area to offer sophisticated imaging and radiation technology to cancer patients.
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The whole hospital's on divert! Physicians and hospital leaders hate it, and for good reason. When the hospital's full and the ED closes to ambulances bearing new or transfer patients, it discourages providers from sending their patients to UCH again. But reducing the number of "ambulance divert" hours is not just an "ED problem"; it's a hospital-wide challenge, and UCH plans to make it a priority for the new fiscal year.
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Inside the Insider: Etc., Etc.Commentary: In the deadening maze of the hospital's 30-plus page list of "approved abbreviations, a MOC is a "mother of child," while a MOM is just "milk of magnesia." Plus: what you read and comments on DVDs and public transportation.
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Graduate nurse residency aims to build on success The joint UCH/UCD program -- one of the first of its kind in the nation -- has produced more than 700 post-baccalaureate nurses since 2002, many of whom stay with the hospital. Now it's bidding to become among the first to earn national accreditation.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Step into Gear hits its stride (left); Bike to Work Day cycles through; Sing-along benefit for Burn Unit; more...
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A new procedure to handle patient valuables A cumbersome and confusing process -- which sometimes left the hospital reimbursing people for items it wasn't sure it had lost -- has been trimmed, tightened and made easier to follow.
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Found: a new way to deal with lost-and-found items A surprising number of UCH staffers didn't know where lost-and-found is or how items got there. A revamped policy could help change that.
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