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Swine Update: Vaccine Arrives, Masks Vanish
As the count of flu-related hospitalizations goes up, UCH has begun inoculating some health care workers with inhaled and injectable H1N1 vaccine. Meanwhile, yellow procedure masks are being snapped up at an unexpectedly rapid rate.  |
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Building Boom in Health Care City
Despite the recession, the building crane has become the official bird of the Anschutz Medical Campus and its neighbors on the old Fitzsimons land. Buildings for the School of Pharmacy, physician group offices, a health and wellness center and the obligatory parking garage are on the rise. |
Number of Hospital Jobs Climbs Again
Steady patient volume growth and financial success have pushed employment at UCH up by 12 percent since the move to Anschutz. |
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| Joy from sorrow. Breast Cancer survivor Maureen Dzialo, nurse manager of the MICU and CICU, married and had two children after successfully battling the disease. | |
When the Provider Becomes the Breast Cancer Patient
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, three UCH women who survived the disease look back on their battles with sorrow, wonder and much gratitude. |
UCH in the News
Brain trauma investigations; stimulation for lung disease research; meeting the MD shortage; more. Mentions: Stephen Cass, Paul Cook, Charles Dinarello, Lisa Froman, Mark Geraci, James Kelly, Karen Peifer, Teresa Sakraida, Norma Wagoner. | |
Relief for the employee parking jam The hospital added a new lot for employee parking Wednesday on land leased from the VA. The lot, which can accommodate 150 to 200 vehicles, will help relieve periodic overcrowding in the Leprino Garage and the AIP surface lot, hospital officials say. 
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FAQs on the new lot It's just north of CeDAR and it's free for those designated to park there. Questions-and-answers on the newest addition to employee parking.
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First-ever targeted laser surgery a success Some medical history was made September 25 at UCH when Al Barqawi, MD, became the first to "cook" in-situ prostate tumors with a laser guided by 3-D mapping. The patient had the procedure on a Friday and was back at work Monday.
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Inside the Insider Commentary: Parking may not be the problem child we think. Plus: "What You Read" and a comment.
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Meet Dr. daVinci The newest "surgeon" in urology, gynecology and cardiology is quiet, very responsive, minutely precise and worth about $2.2 million. The pay-off: faster recoveries for patients, shorter lengths of stay for the hospital.
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A "stimulus" bonanza at UCD The university has snared about $33 million of stimulus funds for medical research thus far, making it the largest recipient in Colorado. Cancer patients could be among the beneficiaries.
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COPD conference nets notables The October 3 gathering draws "lung legend" Tom Petty, MD (in wheelchair, left), Congresswoman Diana DeGette and the promise of more support for patients suffering from one of the nation's deadliest diseases. Plus: Advocates at UCH and elsewhere stump to roll two measures supporting expanded respiratory services into a health care reform bill.
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Target: tumor UCH is the first in the west to use a new system that ensures the proper amount of radiation reaches a patient's tumor. It hasn't been easy to measure in the past.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: a decade of Men for the Cure (left); online employee timecards; Magnet milestone; site visit for graduate nurse residency program; more...
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Dean Krugman's news The latest on what's going on at the School of Medicine.
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