Epic goes live, at last After more than a year of planning and training, the first clinics and pharmacies launched what promises to be a new era February 1. With fewer-than-expected challenges, a surplus of helpers, peanut M&Ms and even aid from some frigid weather, both staff and physicians say they found Launch Day nerve-wracking but ultimately "successful." Right: Jean Kutner (bottom) and Pat Wamboldt take a Launch Day spin on the new system.   >>More

The hospital's ad campaign hits the airwaves next And the ether. The hospital's new campaign, which began with billboards and radio in January, will jump onto TV and the Internet next week.  >>More 

Bon Jovi & CeDAR's unusual fundraiser nets $1 million  The intimate concert had "young and old, blue-jeaned and buttoned-down alike" dancing and singing along. In the next week: a bump in the number of new patients who found CeDAR. Right: Jon Bon Jovi at the Convention Center with UCH.  >>More 
 

UCH, TCH combine to perform a rare feat One liver, two lives saved. One patient was almost almost 60  the other 21 months old. One was at UCH, the other at TCH.  >>More 

Sidebar. Heading back to Frisco with a new liver Two years ago, Bruce Miles was doing a two mile, 1,350-foot climb twice a month. By last Christmas, he could hardly get out of bed. About three weeks ago, he got a new lease on life. >>More 

New on the home page, a new, better My Health Connection  Launched with the first Epic go-lives this week, it lets patients schedule appointments, email their providers, see their medical record, manage their prescriptions and do even more on their own. >>More 

"Organized mayhem, with a lot of fun"  Next on UCH's quirky, decidedly "non-stuffy" fundraising menu is the annual, now-famous Hearts of All Ages, where kids, parents and grandparents gather each Valentine's Day to play, dance, eat and raise money for some good causes. This year's beneficiary: the transplant program. >>More  

 Putting money where holistic health's mouth is Last month, Family Medicine started its four-year study of how, at last, to integrate high-cost mental, behavioral, addiction-related and physical health into lower-cost primary care. "Let me tell you, changing practice is not for the faint-hearted." >>More 

Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Hearts of All Ages; Angela Hill (left) as nurse manager; more.  >>More 

Common, costly and potentially lethal 
 Patients often leave a hospital without getting the follow-up care they need to control blood clots, says Gregory Misky, MD (right). Some don't belong in the hospital at all. UCH launched a program February 1 to standardize their care, shorten or eliminate their stays and follow patients after they leave. >>More

Presidents Awards announced The Presidents Awards for the first trimester of 2011 are in, and the winners were more than deserving (at right, Nancy Gavi, RN, receives her honor). >>More

UCH's (day after the) Super Bowl ad Also in Marketing, Media and Bits of Business: results from a heart failure letter; the hospital's new physician relations manager hits the ground; our "cancer hunter" awarded; more. Available exclusively to people with access to Hub, the hospital's intranet. >>More