CU Reorganizes Leadership
With the resignation of Chancellor M. Roy Wilson, CU President Bruce Benson tapped Jerry Wartgow to fill the position on an interim basis. Longtime School of Medicine and University Physicians, Inc. leader Lilly Marks (above) assumes new duties with dual-reporting responsibilities.  |
Hospital Moves Closer to a "C.U.R.E."
UCH is putting the finishing touches on streamlining the ways it donates medical supplies to the world's needy, bolstering its community service work and strengthening its bond with one of the nation's leading relief organizations. |
| | Cindy Braden, right, with Melanoma Clinic Charge Nurse Maude Becker, forged a new role at UCH. |
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Redefining the Meaning of Patient Care
The Melanoma Clinic's Cindy Braden and the Breast Center's Carol Emberley are "nurse navigators" who help cancer patients, already reeling from a devastating diagnosis, negotiate the often-intimidating process of starting therapy and treatment. |
| | Lead Systems Architect Brent Starr with some of the servers that store vital hospital information. |
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Epic's "Farm" Hands
The redesigned "server farm" in an out-of-the-way corner of Building 500 will provide vital computer synapses to make the hospital's giant new integrated medical record system possible. |
And the Top Nurse Practitioner for 2010 Is...
The indefatigable Tracey Anderson (above) - long one of UCH's best and busiest - got the honor in Chicago, but earned much of it developing UCH's neurocritical care and stroke programs. |
| | "Cooling blankets," filled with water, lower a patient's body temperature nearly 7 degrees, helping to avert neurological damage. |
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Cold Comfort
About four times a month, UCH providers use hypothermia as almost standard treatment when neurological and cognitive functions are threatened by cardiac arrest. Sidebar: The amazingly consistent results. |
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New appearance policy to go live After months of meetings, drafts, and worries about what to do about things like tattoos and iPods, the updated dress code has a heavy emphasis on professional appearance and assuring patients and coworkers they're in expert hands. 
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Finding vulnerable employees The new self-funded insurance plan's success hinges on finding and helping employee groups at risk of health problems. Initial findings: managing employees' weight is probably priority number one. Sidebar. Coming soon: an improved fitness room, better vending machine choices.
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Schroffel on the "most important thing we can do" and other topics Much of CEO Bruce Schroffel's wide-ranging, unscripted "Talk to Me" sessions with employees during the past two weeks focused on building complex things and wondering if other hospitals will share the burden of caring for the uninsured.
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Inside the Insider Commentary: Some UCHers spent Saturday getting up and down Mount Bierstadt, and at least one is just now getting back on speaking terms with his knees. Plus: "What You Read" and a day care query.
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But really, what makes a great nurse? The hospital now hosts a nationally recognized, elite nursing corps and scores of nursing award-winners. But ask UCH nurses themselves what makes for greatness, and you get very different perspectives.
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The everlasting Burn Survivor Support Group Twenty years after a family suggested a patient-driven group to help victims live well with the aftermath of their trauma, Colorado's only burn patient "arena" is still defying the assumptions of "non-burn people". Facilitator Wendy Clyne (above) has been there from the inception.
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Understanding the brain's "story" Two innovative and collaborative (think Neurology + Ophthalmology + Psych + Computer Science + Engineering) studies at the Brain and Vision Research Laboratory in Building 500 are examining the links between the eyes and the brain. One aim: gain a better understanding of the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease.
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Hospital steps it up again Bruce Schroffel helped kick off the fifth phase of "Step into Gear" with a brisk walk around campus. Hundreds of employees will don pedometers, count steps and generally pump up their activity levels. The six-week program begins June 14.
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UCH in the News Nothing but the whole-grain truth; women and sports medicine; Stroke Program honors; more. Mentions: Sean Colgan, E. David Crawford, William Jones, Bonnie Jortberg, Kimberly Meyers, Deborah Saint-Phard, Monique Spillman, Andrew Thorburn.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Burn/Trauma ICU produces President's Award winners (left) again; Lowry open house; Bike to Work Day recycles; highway construction update; more...
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Marketing, Media and Business Notes. It's a new blog about the business of creating business at the hospital. Latest posts: a da Vinci "bust" at Curves, Sports Med for the business community, Dr T in 5280.. Now on the Hub (available only to those with access to the UCH intranet).
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CU Medicine Today. Stories about people and events at the School of Medicine. It's now designed for the Web, with additional information and links.
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Dean Krugman's News. The latest on what's going on at the School of Medicine.
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