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UCH reaches #8 among academic medical centers The hospital climbed into the top 10 in one of the most rigorous and prestigious - if little known - rankings of clinical quality and patient safety. "I'm going to enjoy this one for a while," said President and CEO Bruce Schroffel, pictured right with key hospital staff and representatives from the University HealthSystem Consortium. >>More
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Hospital, the university and Children's take another crack at carpooling Amid much construction and with still more to come, the campus tenants have invested in "Zimride" software not only to get greener, but to help compensate for the temporary parking problems that all the building can cause. Sidebar. Zimride started in activism, social networking and a remarkable coincidence. >>More
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Concern about pneumonia readmission rates catches on UCH is already below the level at which the feds would punish hospitals for too many pneumonia readmissions, but Dimitriy Levin (right) is assembling a diverse group to make sure it stays that way into the future. >>More |
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David Kumpe's big international honor Thirty-five years after "taking a flyer on radiology" and later perfecting 40-some image-guided techniques (including treating strokes as "brain attacks"), Kumpe and two peers (one from Brooklyn, the other from South Korea) were honored in China for spreading their life-saving expertise. >>More
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NICU banishes two costly, debilitating infections Early returns suggest a big effort is successfully eliminating ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line infections from among UCH's tiniest, most vulnerable patients. It is achieving the "true goal of zero." The NICU's Kirtley Ceballos (l) and Kari Waterman led formulation of infection-prevention protocols, or "bundles." >>More
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Through the minefield, carefully Palliative care, originally shaped for cancer patients, became a board-certified subspecialty for all conditions just two years ago. Especially for heart failure and chronic diseases of "creeping decline," knowing when to start palliative care and helping sort out wrenching emotional issues is leading the subspecialty to evolve into meaning different things to different people. >>More
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Hospital-based providers get a moment in the sun A big statewide turnout of "often-overlooked" hospital-based providers named 24 UCHers as among the state's "peak performers." Left: award winners from UCH's Hospitalist Service. >>More
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Need a diagnosis? Call an engineer Once a specialist in making submarines explosion-proof, Kendall Hunter (right) has turned to bioengineering to help understand pulmonary hypertension. >>More
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Determined efforts earn employee teams President's Award honors Radiology technologists (left) earned a World Class Care award, while employees from the OR and the Sterile Processing Department joined forces to complete a project that netted honors for working together. >>More
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The jury stays out on getting "new movers" to UCH Also in Media, Marketing, & Bits of Business: the end of the online advertising bargain?, new cancer facility in Sterling, more. Available only to those with access to Hub, the hospital intranet. >>More
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Dean Krugman's News The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine. >>More
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| | Campus leaders dug in at ceremonial groundbreaking outside the Anschutz Cancer Pavilion October 4. Expansion construction is scheduled to start early next year.
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First Shovels Start Massive Cancer
Pavilion Expansion | Campus leaders and Foundation board members gathered to kick off a $20 million expansion of the currently over-busy Anschutz Cancer Pavilion. With half the money already raised, the project also got a new $1 million boost from the Anschutz family. >>Go
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| | A gleaming new home for University Physicians Inc.
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UPI on the Move. Literally. | |
The School of Medicine's practice management group this week finishes its move from its "old" new building (soon to be part of the new VA) to its new new building on Montview. >>Go
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When the Patient's
Drama Ends, "All That's Left Is the Story" | But whose story is it? The spouse's? The physician's? Medical writing is near the heart of clinical care. In This Hospital Life, Betsy Benjamin ponders the ethics of clinical story-telling and much more. Plus: "What You Read" and a "Top Docs" addendum. >>Go
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An Outage to Prevent Hospital Outages | Like dominoes, parts of UCH's electricity went down for four nights in a row. On purpose. >>Go
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UCH in the News | Acupuncture vs. Parkinson's; taking the fight to AIDS in Africa; breast cancer and men; more. Mentions: Thomas Campbell; Robert Eckel; Brian Freed; Michael Glodé; Benzi Kluger; Adam Lawson; Eileen Thomas. >>Go
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| | Actor Henry Winkler (center) hangs with UCH physicians Heather Ene and William Jones.
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Around UCH | Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: lunch with a leader; the "Fonz" pays a visit (above); new arrivals in HR, Cardiac, Spiritual Care; more... >>Go
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