EOS: A Week to Go, Turnout Low
The Employee Opinion Survey - the all-important poll that supplies many of the ideas and much of leadership's agenda for improving working conditions and employee satisfaction - has been live for a week, but turnout has lagged behind the last survey. The goal is 85 percent participation. It's at 41 percent as of Sept. 15, with a week to go.  |
| | Madia Tuke of Food and Nutrition Services staffs the new satellite food service in the outpatient surgical area. |
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Food Service Comes to the Perioperative Staff
Time-pressed providers told hospital leaders that, with a half-hour lunch break between cases, it was difficult to get changed out of their greens and down to the cafeterias for hasty meals. New "satellite" lunchrooms now bring the food to the staff. |
With Implants, Family Fights Hearing Loss
Two cochlear implants (above), hard work and services from the hospital's Marion Downs Hearing Center have given two sisters a chance to listen and speak successfully. |
| | Respiratory Therapy representatives look on as Chief Nursing Officer Carolyn Sanders (foreground) gives official approval to department's professional development program. |
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A Career Path Widens in Respiratory Services
A new "clinical ladder" is giving respiratory techs a way to improve skills, broaden their knowledge - and boost their pay. |
Honoring "Distressing" Patient Wishes
Like when a patient says "no" to life-saving treatment. Thorny, impossible-to-answer ethical questions - "hot topics that need dialogue" - arise in health care every day. UCH's Ethics Committee helps staff work through them. |
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$35 million and tons of concrete start pouring
into ounces of prevention
Ground was broken last week for the campus's new Health and Wellness Center, which aims to be nothing less than "the country's epicenter for the prevention of disease."
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Sidebar: At the Wellness Center, well-known programs and a fitness center should add up to something new The focus will be on research, translational science, community outreach and collaboration, says executive director Jim Hill.
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UCH takes another tack to keep its people alive
Frustrated by the risks taken and damage done by people jaywalking across 17th Avenue in front of the Leprino Building, the hospital has resorted to a little more direct talk.
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Hospital updates and adds some "critical success factors" Charting the hospital's progress - and earning bonuses - won't change that much for the new fiscal year, although a couple of new measures related to the giant culture changes coming with Epic have joined the list.
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This Hospital Life: Just as in baseball, there's no crying in health care, but maybe there should be. Also: "What You Read."
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Preparing for flu fight The hospital's Employee Health and Wellness Clinic has released its flu vaccination campaign schedule for 2010.
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Kavanagh joins national panel on CMS outpatient reimbursement
The four-year appointment for the School of Medicine radiation oncologist comes at a critical time of balancing reimbursements with Medicare and Medicaid's need to squeeze waste out of the system.
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From a relief
stint in Rwanda, a marriage worth
20 cows
UCH transplant nurse Becki Rwubusisi's physician-husband is now here with her in Colorado, but they're planning a return to practice in Africa.
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Wanted: MDs who use fluoroscopy The deadline for completing a HealthStream module designed to satisfy a state regulation for radiation safety education is October 1. The hospital and School of Medicine are trying to make sure they've contacted all physicians who are required to take it.
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Hospital moves to tighten ties with EMS Those emergency medical techs gathering at UCH every fourth Friday are here to learn. Aurora Fire and Rural Metro Ambulance get ongoing education, and UCH rebuilds its once-frayed trust with local EMS providers.
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UCH in the News Recession and depression; silicone vs. radiation; UCH joins building boom; more. Mentions: Michael Allen; James O. Hill; Richard Johnson; Brian Kavanagh; Adelheid Kratzer; Karl Lewis; Scott Oliver; Bruce Schroffel.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: pay-off party; leadership lunch; patient centered President's Award winner (left); more...
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Dean Krugman's news The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine.
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