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The Epic Project
"Army" Mobilizes
Two more key "commanders" joiuned about 100 other IT troops to prepare for a massive project they hope will create one of the world's leading hospital information systems. Sidebar: Soren Schoultz takes the reins. |
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Patient exposure to radiation is within federal guidelines at UCH, a recent review found.
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Review: UCH Providers Already within New Federal CT Guidelines
With news of radiation overexposures elsewhere, UCH and the School of Medicine jumped to make sure patients were safe. The conclusions so far: scanners are being used safely, but still more safeguards will be applied. |
Big Money Drugs
The priciest drug in UCH's formulary comes in at $20,000 a dose. A joint effort to track the cost of high-dollar medications is paying off handsomely. |
Sidebar: Drug Cost Review Opened Eyes
The case that prompted the cross-team review of pricey drugs started with a $1,700-per-dose treatment for wet macular degeneration. |
WISH Gets Bigger
With the addition of Miriam Lindrooth, MD (above), the women's primary care clinic in the AOP now has a second FTE physician. She'll be on hand to meet other providers January 14 at a clinic open house. |
A New Pump for the "Sickest" Heart Patients
The TandemHeart is giving UCH a powerful new tool in treating the "sickest of the sick" heart patients, says Interventional Cardiology director John Carroll. It will give other critically ill patients strong circulatory support, too. | |
Drug testing for new hirest to begin Beginning January 10, all successful applicants at UCH will be required to submit urine samples for drug screening as a condition of employment. 
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Mini-survey: we're getting better at working together, but...In the short quarterly employee opinion survey, employees said interdepartment cooperation had improved but they'd still like more of a voice in their own departments' decisions.
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Campus hotel projects get a boost Hotel projects at Montview and Ursula Court and on East Colfax, long stalled by the gridlocked loan markets, got a stimulus fund boost that could jump-start construction soon.
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Inside the Insider Commentary: Her hospital job presents the usual challenges, but dealing with thoughts of her son during his tour of duty in Afghanistan is something else again for Anne Pirzadeh. Plus: "What You Read" and a stoplight conversation.
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The UCH Scorecard Recent "scores" of how we're doing in meeting organizational (and employees' professional) "critical success factor" goals. Financial trends stay positive, capacity management rebounds but remains under yearly goals, patient sat nears its goals, and a split for employee engagement.
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Practice manager by day, "Bollywood" dancer at night She runs the General Surgery Clinic for UCH, but Runjhun Nanchal (left) is part of Denver's Bollywood West dance troup, which fuses traditional Indian dance with jazz, hip hop, salsa and more.
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Post-partum crises, managed A novel joint hospital/med school "patient safety" grant has providers using old-fashioned elbow grease and modern technology to learn to save women from an ancient risk of childbirth.
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Sidebar: Noel gives birth and has complications "She" wasn't very expressive, but as the subject of a "Code White," the mannequin provided a case study of why it's hard to keep the lines of communication open during a crisis.
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The pump helps Two School of Medicine docs helped lead a study that compared outcomes for coronary bypass patients who got circulatory support from a heart-lung pump versus those whose own hearts provided circulation. The results -- surprising to some -- appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Around UCH Our regular look at goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. In this issue: good holiday deeds galore; a DAISY Award winner (left); reuniting with a burn patient; more.
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