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| Hospital's Transfusion Services team helps conserve blood supply.M | |
A Bloody Good Performance
Blood is precious for a lot of reasons, including its cost, and it's a scarce commodity for hospitals. Last month, UCH was named one of the best at managing its supply wisely and safely. |
World's Smallest Heart Pump Arrives at UCH
The hospital's interventional cardiologists, first in the region to use the new minimally invasive technology, say the tiny device may be a patient-saving tool for high-risk patients who need artery-opening procedures. So far, so good. |
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| Kathy McCreary and her daughter enjoyed a ride in the Aurora SWAT team's 30,000-pound "BEAR" vehicle. | |
Nobody Beats McCreary. Nobody.
Kathy McCreary, who negotiates the hospital's managed care contracts, faced some tough new situations when Aurora's SWAT team picked her and her daughter up for a ride on a "BEAR" and an afternoon of training, firing monster weapons and fending off canines. |
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| Altitude Research Center's Andy Subudhi on the bike in the center's hypobaric chamber. | |
High Anxiety
In what looks like a converted submarine, research subjects do things like ride stationary bikes in impossible conditions in hopes of solving the mysteries of altitude sickness. |
UCH in the News.
Cancer on the breath?; from the fire to the OR; cracks in spine procedure claims; more. Mentions: Daniel Bessesen, Benjamin Miller, Vikas Patel, Nir Peled, Lorna Prutzman, Jason Rhodes, Timothy Vollmer. | |
Preparing for an H1N1 patient surge The course of the so-called swine flu pandemic in the southern hemisphere has UCH anticipating -- and preparing for -- an influx of patients and hospitalizations, perhaps as soon as next month. 
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Number of auto accidents at UCH doubles The number of pedestrian complaints has also risen sharply. Navigating the hospital's parking lots and pedestrian crosswalks, it turns out, is no walk in the park.
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Volunteers donate more than $1 million in labor to the hospital Take 682 generous people donating more than 50,000 hours at a value of more than $20 per hour, and you've got a record milestone for the hospital. Above: Al Tehrani, one of those who has given thousands of hours of his time to UCH.
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Inside the Insider: What I learned in Alabama in August Commentary: Off to the South in the steamiest part of summer for communications training, our media relations coordinator discovered some history, too. Plus: What You Read.
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Food Service figures out "why" Slowed by having nearly one in six of its staff on some sort of work restriction, Food and Nutrition called in help from Employee Health and HR to figure out why. The results have been encouraging: fewer employees on restrictions, lower turnover and better job descriptions.
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Sidebar: the changes in the kitchen All sorts of fixes since May have helped Food and Nutrition cure some not-so-obvious risks to employee safety. Left: FNS manager Doris Johnson and some ergonomically designed storage shelving.
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MS Center becomes a "bank" for samples A retired pro bicycle racer's donation has set up the campus's multidisciplinary center as one of just nine repositories of data and blood samples taken from patients with multiple sclerosis. The hope: discovering what causes the mysterious and debilitating disease.
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At the Boulder Clinic For family medicine physician Lonnie Granston (left), it's science in the exam rooms and art on the walls.
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Mapping the prostate A new treatment method gives patients with prostate cancer more nuanced options for treating the disease. UCH is the only academic medical center using the technique.
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Tiny microscopes, big possibilities A new mini microscope can spot hard-to-detect GI cancers and bring the pathology lab to the exam room. In the process, it promises to expand the scope of endoscopic practice.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: a radiation oncology first for metro area (left); President's Award winners; Health Risk Evaluation survey prizes; more...
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