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Goodbye, AMAZE
The hospital is revamping and simplfying the way employees earn their performance grades. That means phasing out the AMAZE standards for evaluations in fiscal year 2010.  |
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Mountains Outside, Big New Hill Inside
New CIO Steve Hess came from relatively flat Delaware in part to help with the hospital's upcoming Epic installation. The five-year, multimillion project, he says, promises to be "life-changing." |
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| Renowned diabetes researcher George Eisenbarth says the things that make insulin are like a hot dog and its mustard topping. | |
Childhood Diabetes Breakthrough?
The Barbara Davis Center's much-lauded George Eisenbarth may be getting closer to something really special: a key to preventing type 1 diabetes. To understand, it helps to think about hot dogs. |
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| DAISY Award winner Michael Portschy with Chief Nursing Officer Carolyn Sanders. | |
Still More Daisies
Guitar and self-deprecating humor in hand, CICU nurse Michael Portschy won recognition for his exceptional patient care. |
UCH in the News
The truth about cankles; statins for kids; youngsters on campus; more. Mentions: Jackie Brinkman; Dana Dabelea; Stephen Daniels; Bonnie Jortberg; Wendy Kohrt. | |
IDX to go dark for a weekend Bringing in a new server means the hospital's billing and scheduling software will be unavailable for 48 hours, August 14-16. Workarounds and additional communications are already in progress. 
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UCH, housing agency?Patients come to UCH from all over, and many stay for lengthy outpatient treatments. Helping them and their families has become an ongoing task that often tests the creativity of the hospital's social workers.
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Success in Ortho, challenges in Tranplant A new, streamlined process for collecting blood draws has worked well for inpatient Orthopaedics. It's helped reduce "piles of labels" nurses and AHTs used to manage as well as the number of patient needle sticks. Now Transplant, which typically needs many more tests, is trying it out.
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UCH's "Scooter Nation" At least a couple dozen hospital colleagues regularly buzz to work on their gas-stingy rides. It turns out they have a lot more than that in common. An impromptu roundtable talk with four scooter lovers.
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Inside the Insider: The stubborn transportation issue Commentary: Short-term fixes are in place, but for a campus that plans to continue to grow, the prospect for more parking and traffic crunches isn't dim. What's next? Plus: what you read.
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UCH casts a wider 'net for nurses HR is experimenting with integrating non-traditional recruiting tools. The latest: a Facebook page for traveling nurses.
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A "gold standard," underutilized UCH clinicians found not enough patients are getting a quick, easy and painless test to detect signs of lung disease. They're on a campaign to make it part of the diagnostic protocol for more docs.
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From some of the world's most dangerous places Outpatient Psych serves a stream of refugees who have fled persecution in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Sudan and many other strife-torn countries. Dan Savin (above) has spent nearly two decades helping meet the mental health needs of the world's dispossessed.
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Outpatient Psych doors swing open The recently relocated practice welcomed hospital and university friends with an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: CeDAR's employee of the quarter (on the right in photo); schools get supplies; upcoming Health Risk Evaluation survey; more...
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