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A few more clouds in the hospital's financial picture Patient volumes, great for three straight years until July 1, turned "soft" for a third straight month. Uncompensated care, meanwhile, is growing. But, for now, thanks to spending discipline, "we're still doing great in the face of forces we don't fully understand." >>More
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2,300 questions later... It took two days and literally thousands of questions and answers, but the Clinical Lab again won the industry's seal of approval earlier this month. >>More
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Improving the odds in Transplant A new "paired kidney" donation alliance seeks to match donors to recipients elsewhere on the nation's lengthy waiting list. UCH has joined 77 other programs in the new alliance, says says Living Kidney Donor Coordinator Vonnie Bagwell (left). The first "match run" is scheduled for this month, >>More
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When the conversation turns to palliative care It's a difficult, emotional and easily misunderstood discussion. Palliative Care Consult Services, directed by hospitalist Jeanie Youngwerth, MD (right), helps patients, loved ones and other providers get through it. >>More
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Acupuncture for Parkinson's? UCH and the School of Medicine are carefully testing to see if acupuncture can relieve one of Parkinson's patients' most disabling symptoms: fatigue. >>More
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CU docs take AIDS fight to African medical system The toughest foes have been political turmoil, the awful disease and, not least, the flight of physicians to greener pastures overseas. In Zimbabwe, the faculty headcount is down 66%. With the help of a federal grant, the School of Medicine is trying to reverse the trend. >>More
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Sidebar: Selling art for antiretroviral therapies The therapies cost "only" $1.22 a day, but they're well beyond the means of many HIV patients in Zimbabwe. CU's Thomas Campbell, who's become a fan of the art in Zimbabwe, and some local co-conspirators have been bringing paintings and sculptures back here to buy the drugs for patients back there. >>More
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President's Award winners persevere for patients The team that created the Pre-op Call Center and social worker Amy Malcom (right) earned the honors this month for their outstanding service to the hospital and to patients. >>More
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Colorado Cancer Day; Marketing scores industry kudos; another Magnet celebration (left); scarecrows in Leprino; more... >>More
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Flex Spending Account Limits on the Way Jan. 1 | The new health insurance reform law will require employees who want to use their flex spending accounts for some over-the-counter medications to get prescriptions for them. >>Go
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Shorter Hours for MDs in Training Turns into a Management Puzzler | UCH and other teaching hospitals like TCH and Denver Health met to unravel the challenge of maintaining patient care and managing capacity while complying with the approaching mandated limits on the number of hours interns and residents can work. >>Go
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From Nursing Patients to Nursing Nurses | When clinicians leave direct patient care for leadership positions, they can find the change to"taking a broader view" as anything from glorious to jarring. Here, four nurses, including the SICU's Martha Paulson (above) remember their transitions from bedside care to the office. >>Go
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A New "Hotline" for MDs with Heart Failure Patients | With a mailing to almost 5,700 providers (including 380 on campus) this week, the heart failure team is offering referring physicians a faster, easier way to get everything from curbside consults to only-at-UCH quaternary care for heart failure patients. >>Go
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Pete Rose, Accountable Care Organizations and CMS: Strange Bedfellows | In This Hospital Life: Like getting 4,000 hits, asking "care" organizations to be "accountable" is a lot easier to talk about than to do. Plus: "What You Read." >>Go
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UCH in the News | Wrong site, wrong patient errors continue; ERT cancer risk; dangers of meningitis; more. Mentions: Bonnie Jortberg; Erika Matich; Edward McCabe; Nia Mitchell; Soren Schoultz; Bruce Schroffel; Monique Spillman; Philip Stahel; Ken Tyler. >>Go
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Dean Krugman's News | The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine. >>Go
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