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Volume 4 | Issue 7| Through October 12, 2010
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The "bonus" next time A tweaked set of group goals needed to qualify for an incentive plan payout next time has put a special focus on the massive job of getting Epic up and running during the next nine months. >>More

 

63 campus MDs added to "Top Docs" list  Released September 28, the new issue of 5280 Magazine's annual list of favorite physicians featured some Top Docs 2010familiar campus names. More importantly, it featured a big number of what is, after all, the state's biggest multi-specialty practice. >>More

 

Feds sharpen knives for hospitals with "bad" readmission rates Two years from now, the feds will start financially punishing hospitals for "unplanned" Medicare readmissions.  With doubts about what to do about non-compliant patients and other uncontrollable after-care issues, UCH - like "the whole country" - is searching for more solutions. >>More

anticoagulants
Fattened resources for blood thinners The hospital is rolling out new resources for providers to minimize adverse drug reactions, particularly for patients on lifesaving but potentially dangerous anticoagulation medications. >>More

Behind the Curtain

 

Women peek "Behind the Curtain" One hundred and sixty women - and two badly outnumbered males - gathered Monday night at the hospital's inaugural effort to mobilize women against a disease that wipes out some 32,000 men a year and scares the heck out of 190,000 others.  >>More

 

hazard house
Hazard houses, hot boards and more The Burn/Trauma ICU team - literally for the 53rd time since April - mixed in a big dose of education in its latest foray, this one in Golden. The goal was to protect kids, but the hospital's profile rises, too. >>More

 

CeDAR finds a few keystrokes could keep its alumni closer Recovering from addiction can be lonely. CeDAR has found its alumni  help its patients stay strong. It hopes connecting them to another 10,000 recovering patients nationwide will help even more. >>More

 

"Incredibly, enormously needed" For the rapidly growing numbers of type 2 diabetes patients, exercise is absolutely crucial. But exercise is actually harder for them than for others. With her dad in mind and a new clinical trial at UCH, Amy Huebschmann, MD (left), is studying why. >>More

Clare Cull

 

Rare double DAISY Two compassionate nurses, one inpatient, one outpatient, received DAISY awards for the exceptional care they delivered patients in need. Right: Neuro ICU nurse Clare Cull shows hand-carved statue she received.   >>More

 

For providers, new law clarifies patients' end-of-life wishes "Advance directives" don't always work. A new medical order form, designed to stay with the patient's chart, uses straightforward medical language a provider, as opposed to a lawyer, can use.  >>More

Diann Eason

 

Around UCH Our regular round-up of
goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Diann Eason bids farewell (right); bonus celebration; Cancer Center prepares to break ground; patient clothing drive; more.
 
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PSCU

48 Employees. 525 Pounds Lighter.
With the surprise success of a pilot program earlier in 2010 in mind, the hospital is looking to match still more employees serious about getting in shape with personal wellness coaches. >>Go
Jeff Thompson 
With the help of a wellness coach, Jeff Thompson has conquered the stairs in the Leprino Building..
Sidebar: Tales from the
Personal Wellness
Coach Experiment
A breathless fire drill on the stairs and a fit, good-looking coach drove two employees to take the challenge. >>Go

Too Much Epic?
One of the big advantages of the new Epic implementation is it will give inpatient physicians computerized order entry for medications -- and warnings about possible drug interactions. One of the big fears: "alert fatigue." The "danger" recently sparked a lively faculty debate about how much drug information is too much information. >>Go

Eastridge and fan 
Senior maintenance mechanic Bob Eastridge with one of the 250-horsepower fans that help power the hospital.
As the Hospital Grows,
so Do Utility Bills
UCH will probably spend around $7 million on electricity, steam and chilled water this year. Expansion means using still more of the stuff by 2015. Managing much of it from the AIP "penthouse" is "challenging and stressful and I love it." >>Go

Cancer Center and Affiliates Expand the Fight
With oncologists from hospitals in Aspen, Montrose, Glenwood Springs, Alamosa and Grand Junction, the UCCC and UCH are spreading the latest proven cancer treatments as well as research knowledge far beyond the Anschutz Medical Campus. >>Go

UCH's Loneliest Place
In This Hospital Life: if you want to be alone, visit Blog World. Plus "What You Read." >>Go

Silicone Treatment 
Silicone treatment could help preserve vision in eye cancer patients. 
An Eye Cancer
Advance that Could "Change the Field"
The treatment for eye cancer can defeat cancer, but historically leaves 50 percent of patients legally blind. UCH's Scott Oliver may have hit on a way to cut those numbers way down. >>Go

UCH in the News
Grocery bag danger; body scan scam; med school for the common man; more. Mentions: Larry Allen; Michelle Barron; Marian Betz; Sondra Bland; Peter Buttrick; Tim Byers; John Cohen; Robert Garcea; Dennis Roop; Adam Gilden Tsai. >>Go

Dean Krugman's News
The latest on what's going on at the School of Medicine.. >>Go