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Volume 3, Issue 23 * Through June 8, 2010
Warehouse
The hospital's Smith Road warehouse will cease operations around July 1.
UCH Warehouse Operations Near Final Days 
A two-year stretch of investigating, planning and implementing ways to move supplies to units and clinics more efficiently will end in a little more than a month when an outside vendor formally takes over as the hospital's primary supplier, and UCH warehouse operations close down. Go
Sidebar: More than Just a Phasing Out 
The closing of the hospital's warehouse operations was part of a massive overhaul of the supply system lifeline. Go
The April Scoreboard: How We're Doing 
Latest scores - most of which will help determine if we qualify for bonuses - show some improvement in patient sat and preventing patient falls. But as we head toward the end of the fiscal year, employees' and providers' successes in limiting return inpatient visits and staying off divert declined. Go

Facebook
Facing up to Facebook 
UCH is set to publish standards, and recommendations for units and departments eager to set up their own hospital-related Facebook pages.  Go
Shevonne Strebel Trudy Orona
Shevonne Strebel (left), with Basic Life Support instructor/trainer Trudy Orona and son, helped save a life at the hospital this month.
Lifesaving Lessons, Remembered 
On her way into work a few weeks ago, Radiology tech assistant Shevonne Strebel found a woman dying in an AOP hallway. She sprang into action.  Go
Marisa Murgolo
A Billion for Blood Cancer, One Long-Distance Race at a Time 
A team of runners has been enlisting and training "non-runners" in return for a special favor for 22 years now. UCH's Marisa Murgolo (above) joined them six years and $20,000 ago.  Go
Dean Krugman's News 
The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine.Go
Schroffel Tower
Announce you're building it and they will come State and local politicians joined hospital and university officials today for a campus news conference announcing UCH's construction of a new inpatient tower. The project promises to bring jobs and much-needed economic stimulus to the metro area and the state, and bolster the hospital's standing as a leading academic medical center.More
New cuts on the horizon The hospital may get even less for treating Medicare patients, as the feds ponder reducing reimbursements to hospitals as of October 1. It would follow proposed Medicare cuts for physician services, too. More
Wellness
But does wellness work? The hospital's new self-funded health insurance plans are an attempt to tamp down soaring annual premium increases by keeping employees healthier. Next: seeing if employees will cooperate, and if wellness effectively cuts costs. More
After last year's RN survey, a drive to help nurses get off the phone More than a third of the nurses in one unit said they didn't have the time even to sit down for a meal without their phones. After an effort to relieve them
and install some bedside reporting, this year nurse leaders are aiming for still more ways to improve nurses' working environment.More
Fitzimons Village Groundbreaking
Colfax facelift becomes official With some ceremonial shovels-ful of dirt (left), the facelift on Colfax across from campus hit a higher gear. Derailed by the 2008 recession, it's Colorado's biggest private development this year, its leaders say. More
Inside the Insider Commentary: They Walk, Talk, Smoke and Snore By Day - a guide to the unusual species of the Anschutz Medical Campus. Also: "What You Read" and  what not to wear in the OR. More
Sleep Apnea
No time to snooze on sleep apnea The often-mocked and misunderstood condition may account for longer lengths of stay at a time the hospital can hardly afford them. (Illustration: KoiFish Communications). More
MS Center scores some quick successes The "remarriage" of two multiple sclerosis treatment and research powerhouses on the Anschutz Medical Campus less than two years ago has more than doubled volume, led to dramatically more clinical trials and brought the nation's biggest "brain bank" into the fold. More
UCH in the News Goading the gamblers; med school funding challenges; expanding cancer treatment; more. Mentions: William J. Burman; Bette Kay DeMaster; Richard Krugman; Frank Lisnow; Wells Messersmith; Christine Nyquist; Wilson Pace; Rubin Tuder; Timothy Vollmer.More
UEXCEL
Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: nurses who excelled (left); racing for lung cancer research; medical benefit enrollment wraps up; more...More
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