Fitzsimons 2University of Colorado UCHInsider - Anchutz Medical CampusStapleton July 2010
Volume 4, Issue 1 * Through July 20, 2010
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Health Risk Evals: How Private Is the Information? 
The new self-funded health insurance plan began July 1. Next: collect more health care data from employees to tamp down costs with wellness programs aimed at lowering or preventing risk. Just as important: keep the info confidential. Go
Lab vials
Campus Research Turning into an Engine 
The School of Medicine now does $375 million a year in research. Inside the world of labs, grants, and federal funding that keeps ideas bubbling and the work growing. Go
Antonio Jimeno
Medical oncologist Antonio Jimeno, MD, PhD, heads effort to identify and test drugs that attack cancer stem cells.
Research Target: Cancer Stem Cells 
A tiny, resilient minority of tumor cells may be the villains that account for cancer's tenacity. The Cancer Center and CU stem cell researchers have formed the nation's first partnership to try to mix drug cocktails to "crush" them. Go

Paper Mountain
Freeing Products from Purchasing Black Hole 
Thanks to some innovation at Supply Chain, a new Web-based ordering system called SupplyNet seeks to take faxes, email attachments, hefty file folders and snail mail out of the process of requesting and getting products for units quickly and transparently. Go
Expressing Gratitude 
The Grateful Patient and Family Program, which kicked off July 6, wants to make it easier than ever for people to thank the caregivers at UCH who made a difference. Go
Marketing, Media & Business Notes 
This week in the blog about the business of creating business: snail mail for stroke; great results for CeDAR's new marketing, Web pages; hospital potty mouth, more. (Available to those with access to Hub, UCH's internal Web site).
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House of Flowers

Electricians
The Outage of 2010 It took a highly unlikely "perfect storm" of electrical impulses, but a routine test of the (supposedly) "uninterruptable power supply" pitched the hospital into a phone and network outage for a few very long hours June 23. Circuits were fried, nerves were frayed, phones and pagers and computers went down but, despite some delayed testing, patients stayed safe. More
Weathering the electrical storm The June 23 outage momentarily cast UCHers and patients back into a health care world of paper, "two tin cans and string," a whole lot of legwork, and some hearteningly old-school teamwork. More
Naresh Mandava Small
Ophthalmology heads south UCH's Eye Center is scheduled to open a satellite clinic next to the Family Medicine clinic in Lone Tree (tentative date: mid-September). The goals: open up access in a new part of town, decompress the busy campus clinic and attract new faculty, says Medical Director Naresh Mandava, MD (above). More
Audit this! CMS chose 10 "lucky" hospitals, including UCH, to audit for erroneous diagnoses for certain illnesses. The 10 had an aggregate error rate of 17.5%. UCH, though, came out with an error rate of zero, thanks to an interdepartmental effort. More
NYC Blackout
This Hospital Life We've renamed "Inside the Insider," but we're still providing commentary with a personal touch. We launch it with Tyler Smith on some of the stranger things the communications outage taught us, including what the event had and didn't have in common with New York City's Blackout of 1977 (above). Plus "What You Read."  More
Our Scoreboard How we're doing in quality outcomes, patient satisfaction and other ways we compete with ourselves and measure our success.
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Kristin Aubuchon
MICU nurse earns "DAISY" for her compassionate care The willingness of Kristin Aubuchon (left) to go the extra mile for patients and families earned her the award for extraordinary care.More
UCH in the News Sugar and hypertension; how to swaddle; distaff health differences; more. Mentions: Jessica AndersonBruce BensonMichael ChoncholJohn FreedTheresa PachecoYosef RefaeliTimothy VollmerMore
Vending Machine Gluten Free
UCH's latest first UCH has become the first hospital in the state to bring on vending machines full of gluten-free, kosher, organic, vegan, locally grown and "sustainably sourced" selections. Prices are a tad hefty, but sales so far are "extremely" good.More
Harmon Gardens
Around UCH CeDAR garden dedication (left); Rushing assumes VP of Operations duties; Donor Dash; Burn Unit's hot golf event; more...  More
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