Crime on Campus Remains Low
Nearby neighborhoods are safer than those in some other parts of Aurora. But campus officials say statistics suggest the safest choice for staff and partners is still to park and stay on campus. Plus: "Avoiding Trouble."  |
Preparing for the Unimaginable
Gun violence is increasing in the nation, and hospitals are not immune. UCH has added new security measures and required training to help staff respond to the threat of assault with a deadly weapon. |
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| 9 West Pulmonary Unit charge nurses Staci Aden (left) and Joy Wahl have 20 years' combined experience treating cystic fibrosis patients. | |
When Childhood Diseases Grow Up
UCH is the only inpatient treatment facility for adults with cystic fibrosis, a devastating, incurable disease. Treating CF patients -- many of whom live longer than ever before -- requires new layers of expertise, sensitivity and mental toughness. |
Sidebar: The True Cost of Medical Care
The patient is 19 and old enough to move from Children's to UCH for treatment of her cystic fibrosis. How the disease altered her life. |
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| Jeanne Youngwerth, MD, of the Hospitalist Service enjoys a gift and carnation on Doctors Day. | |
Hospital Rocks Docs
The executive team showed its appreciation to UCH physicians with carnations and gifts on National Doctors Day March 30. And patients heaped on the praise in more than 1,000 comment cards. |
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| Katie Fuenning of the Burn Unit is lead coordinator for the hospital's peer support program. | |
The Burn Unit Turns to
a New Resource
This week, UCH's Burn/Trauma ICU formally starts to tap a new clinical resource for patients still in recovery: patients who have recovered. |
UCH in the News
Corn syrup and liver damage; fiber vs. cancer; insurance companies in denial; targeted cancer care; more. Mentions: Rajesh Agarwal; Mark Earnest; Anthony Elias, Maureen Garrity; Mallikarjuna Gu; Kerry Hildreth; Richard Johnson; Maureen Leehey; Carolyn Sanders; Bruce Schroffel. | |
The 1 Percent Club UCH's already- celebrated nursing service joined the company of only 1 percent of the world's hospitals when it earned its third consecutive Magnet designation March 18. A lot of celebrating followed. Story, photos. 
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Huge Supply Chain initiatives near
pay-off A long, deceptively complex effort aims to give providers answers to a basic question: "Where's my stuff?" The inventory management fixes will soon go live on all inpatient units.
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Sidebar: The hospital's closet organizers To make way for a far more efficient method of storing and trackng UCH's tens of thousands of medical supplies, Materials Management storekeepers (like Janice Villegas, above) are sweeping through and getting things in order in the hospital's 40 Ambulatory Services storage rooms.
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Nearly 50 UCH-ers get their own "wellness coaches" With more than three "health risks," each is now part of a hospital effort to prove that with a little help, employees can lose weight, exercise more and reduce stress. Oh, and perhaps improve patient care and lower health care costs along the way.
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A year of a new and, well, painless way to schedule surgeries A spate of patient complaints to CEO Bruce Schroffel led to scheduling improvements for surgical patients. The results: happier patients and fewer cancellations. Above: Becky Wiseman (foreground) and Diane Leeth handle scheduling in the Pre-Procedure Services Call Center.
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Can a nutritional supplement slow Parkinson's? UCH patients are part of a "large,definitive trial" into whether a naturally occurring co-enzyme can stymie the progression of devastating brain cell degeneration that affects 1 million Americans.
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The difference a year makes In the year since one School of Medicine physician and three UCH nurses began research into how to reduce the number of catheter-associated urinary tract infections, rates have fallen. A bonus: an accidental medical supply discovery saved the hospital tens of thousand of dollars.
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Lights! Camera! Listen! Tough talk from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease will be the centerpiece of new lung education that stresses getting providers to listen to what they have to say about their illness.
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A new hospital "DAISY" Operating Room nurse Jenny Nguyen received the honor this week for her extraordinary work with the Neuro ICU and family members of a patient who became an organ donor candidate.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Nightingale finalists (left); another P.A.R.T.Y.; nurses get posterized; 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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