The big parking change gets ready, gets set...Pending last-minute permitting approvals, construction on both the new patient parking structure and the temporary lot for employees is due to start in a few weeks. When work begins, most employees who now park in the west surface lot will temporarily head across Colfax to a lot between Quentin and Scranton streets (right) that will be resufaced, lighted and patrolled.  >>More

Physicians' time frame for meeting Joint Commission standards tightens  The Joint Commission's next visit is looming, the clock is ticking to comply with physician evaluation requirements, and the paperwork is piling up. The Med Board's president is worried docs either don't know about the standards, or aren't paying attention to them yet. >>More

More operating room Five months and more than $3 million later, two new operating rooms - both designed around recent innovations - will open in April. As volume increases, it won't be a moment too soon. >>More

Training heats up for new UCH/TCH maternal/fetal unit The new Colorado Institute for Maternal/Fetal Health program aims to open soon, and staff from both UCH are traveling up and down 17^th Avenue to train at each others' facilities. Meanwhile, construction of the newly built obstetrical unit at Children's (the reception area is pictured, left) is nearly complete.   >>More 

Butt-crushing time? Even though they no longer have a place to smoke during working hours, an estimated 6 percent of UCH staffers still use tobacco. Later this month the hospital will offer a helping hand to get them off the stuff once and for all. >>More 

Colorado in East Africa A neurosurgery candidate's interview didn't end in a job, but did lead the UCH interviewers themselves to Tanzania to help improve neurosurgery in a country of 40 million, where only six neurosurgeons work and bellows serve as ventilators. Left: UCH neurosurgeon Josh Seinfeld, MD (left), performs surgery at Haydom Luthern Hospital in Tanzania.   >>More 

See robot, do robot  Denver East High students crowded into a conference room to watch the hospital's surgical robot in action, then some headed home to build robots of their own. >>More 

A "much, much more accurate" provider directory The hospital's long-awaited "new" Web site directory - where people can now find most providers by the condition they're asking about, by the location where someone practices as well as by the provider's specialty - went public last week. "Still not perfect" and still needing input from more physicians, but "a big, big leap forward." >>More

"Change is a constant" And though the pace of change in teaching, research, and patient care are all accelerating, new Dept. of Medicine Chair David Schwartz, MD (right), finds the challenges as bracing as they are worrisome. >>More 

Is it Alzheimer's, a memory issue, an attention problem? The innovative new UCH Neuropsych Clinic, opened in January, already has a 150-patient waiting list. Its job: some critical testing to identify neurological disease, to measure the cognitive impact of it, and to track a baseline before  brain surgery. >>More

UCH in the News Hospitals hunt for drugs; biofeedback in the loop; airing out hypoxia causes; more. Mentions: Rajesh Agarwal; Gerry Barber; John Carroll; Antonia Chiesa; Holger Eltzchig; Kim Gorman; Denise McGuire; Peter Rice; Mark Spitz. >>More

Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Health Risk Assessment on tap; focus on safety (left); a "Mammoth" chance to benefit the Cancer Center; Magnet's nursing Oscar; more.   >>More 

Dean Krugman's news The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine. >>More