Fitzsimons 2University of Colorado UCHInsider - Anchutz Medical CampusStepleton May 2010
Volume 3, Issue 25 * Through July 6, 2010
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New Rx Discounts Begin for (Some) UCH Staff July 1 
UCH, CU and UPI employees in the new UA Net health plan will get prescription discounts at UCH outpatient pharmacies. The pharmacies will also open their doors to non-UCH provider scripts. Go
Hospital to Home
The hospital is part of the "Hospital to Home" initiative, which aims to decrease the number of heart failure patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge. 
Getting Heart Failure Patients Home and Keeping Them There 
It's not easy. Many end up being readmitted within a month. UCH has jumped into the middle of a national effort to help patients safely manage life after discharge. Go
Roxane England

Occupational nurse Roxane England took charge of her health with a Weight Watchers class and a personal wellness coach, both offered through the hospital.
 
65 Pounds Ago 
As part of the drive to employee wellness, the hospital hosted its first-ever Weight Watchers class on campus in February. Here's a talk with two who made it through, a total of 65 pounds ago. Go
A Big Turn-around for a Critical Success Factor 
Thanks to a multi-pronged effort, the percentage of patients with hospital-acquired pressure ulcers fell to less than one percent in just a few months. One virtual hero: a "wound web."Go
Brain

"The Toughest of
the Tough Cases"
 
Working in the strange world between the brain and behavior, faced with often irreversible conditions, the Neurobehavior Clinic has increased its patient volume has more than 50 percent in the past two years.Go
About the Business of Creating Business 
This week at Marketing, Media & Business Notes: Pushing cancer higher up US News rankings; finding new primary care patients; social media Si, reading it No, more. Plus: first results for a cardio visit to daytime TV. On Hub (available only to UCH insiders with access to the hospital intranet).
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With one historic fiscal year for UCH ending, a new, grittier one begins "None of us thought we'd be [expanding]" this soon, Bruce Schroffel says. But 2010's seemingly impossible growth and giant expansion leaps are being followed at the July 1 start of the 2011 fiscal year by an ambitious budget and, Schroffel adds, a crucial need for employees and providers to remember the daily discipline that got the hospital here. More
Clinical Investigations Core
Number of Cancer Center's clinical trials grows again They're up 25 percent in a year, and its Clinical Investigations Core (CIC) is booming. It's busy recruiting trials and patients and following the thousands of details that go into successful studies and, ultimately, the places where new science and medicine are made. Above: some of the more than 100 members of the CIC team.More
Supporters say new oncology drug law will be a boon to patients Some who could have benefited from taking cancer drugs orally were forced into the expense and inconvenience of IV therapy because health insurers didn't cover most - or any - of the oral drugs' costs. A new state law, passed last month, changes that. More
Fluoroscopy
New state fluoroscopy rules mean new requirements for docs, techs As of July 1, the regs will apply to anyone who operates, directs the operation of or even orders a test using fluoroscopy. UCH aims to have everyone retrained by October 1. More
Inside the Insider Commentary: Health care providers are bullish on electronic medical records. So why aren't patients excited? Plus: "What You Read."  More
CMS asks for more data in return for higher reimbursement If new proposals go into effect on October 1, UCH will need to report more categories of data if it wants to be reimbursed fully for treating Medicare patients.  More
Megan Crowley
"She's been very brave" After treating the daughter (left) of one of its own nurses, the General Surgery team (including one of the world's leading IBD researchers) took the fight against Crohn's and colitis to the streets... of the zoo.    More
UCH in the News Bearing up under the birth blues; helping patients home; getting behind colon cancer screenings; more. Mentions: Cheryl ChessickEric ColemanAliya HasanAntonio JimenoJose Castillo MancillaEdward R.B. McCabeLaura MichaelsMore
Fred Kolhouse
Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Cancer Center, hospital lose a respected leader. Clinical Cancer Center Director Fred Kolhouse, MD (left, with Cancer Center nurse Sharon Alfers), passes away June 17. Also: honors for Theodore Eickhoff, Colleen Goode; another P.A.R.T.Y.; fourteeners strike again; more...    More
Dean Krugman's news The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine. More
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