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Patient parking changes Call it a makeover or a mid-course correction, but the hospital rushed to make parking a little easier for patients as construction on the new patient and visitor garage began. >>More
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IDX is dead. Long live IDX With Epic unable to produce financially crucial "advanced beneficiary notices" for patients very efficiently, the hospital made the tough decision to stick with IDX for them for the time being. >>More
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Smooth sailing (mostly) for the Epic "Big Bang" Some by-now common printing issues and some slow first-day check-ins marked an otherwise orderly but huge, important shift of 40 Ambulatory clinics to doing "reg and sched" on Epic. "When you do 250-300 check-ins a day, it doesn't take long to cement [a new routine] into muscle memory." Sidebar. The long rumble before the big bang. Left: Epic team fielded 324 calls to the command center on day one. >>More
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For a busy hospital, even "good" response times weren't enough Early returns on a difficult mission are in: EVS staff have produced double-digit improvements in their response times to clean and prep rooms for the next waiting inpatient. >>More
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Number of employees who assess their health nears goal As deadline nears, health risk assessment (HRA) response numbers were only about 30 short of the hospital's target of 1,500. Also: The coach inside your computer: the HRA can add on a free "assistant" to help with weight, sleep, pain, coping with chronic conditions and more. >>More
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Kudos on 12 West In This Hospital Life: UCH may be on a hot streak (magazine honors, quality recognitions, individual awards), but the thanks of a California couple to providers on the Medicine Unit (right) and elsewhere in the hospital may be the best yet. Plus: "What You Read." >>More
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Entry-level workers' next rung up The hospital's started taking apps for this summer's "school at work" program for entry-level employees looking to sharpen their skills and move up. If it's like the first one, competition for the 15 slots (up from 10) will be stiff. >>More
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Practice makes better OB patient safety Poor Noelle had more than two dozen post-partum hemorrhage procedures last year. Okay, she's actually a programmable mannequin, but now the Birth Center has proof her sacrifices were not in vain. >>More
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No flashes in the pan here The 100 or so employees honored at last Thursday's Milestones luncheon have collectively contributed nearly 2,000 years of service to UCH. The hospital offered thanks to them and others who retired last year. Right: Thirty-five-year employee Terri Schuchman of Radiation Oncology with HR VP Darryl Varnado and President and CEO Bruce Schroffel. >>More
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Tubular week for the lab; call to climb; search for drugs; top nurse preceptors, including CICU's Ginger Mills (left); more. >>More
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UCH in the News This issue: distasteful food myths; bionic ear gets a hearing; Aflac won't duck donations; more. Mentions: Larry Allen; Daniel Bowles; Paul Bunn; Arthur Gutierrez-Hartmann; Herman Jenkins; Bonnie Jortberg; James K. Todd. >>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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Parking across Colfax, Week One | Despite a few hitches, employees spent the first week in the Colfax temporary lot as pretty good sports. After some quick fixes, more improvements are coming. >>Go
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New Privacy Regs: No Less Stern, but a Tad More Flexible | The hospital has replaced its mandatory, automatic, no-questions-asked policy to fire staffers for any kind of patient privacy breach with one that might not be more lenient, will look at mitigating circumstances, too. Plus: Three cases so far and three terminations >>Go
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Vital and others in the Endocrinology practice believe a small cap on an insulin reservoir might be a culpirt in the mysterious blood glucose fluctuations she and her patients have experienced.
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UCH diabetes educator Tavia Vital began noticing "unusual spikes" in her own as well as her patients' blood glucose levels last summer. Months of detective work led her to get some help from a huge insulin pump manufacturer -- or so she thought. What happened next is in dispute. >>Go
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Strapping on an Oxygen Tank | With help from pulmonary rehab and a "magical" surgery at the Cardiac and Vascular Center, COPD patient Bruce Smith (above) hasn't let a thing like the nation's fourth-deadliest killer slow him down. Sidebar: Some think COPD is easy to treat, some think it's hard, and some just turn away from it. But not the hospital's COPD Clinic. >>Go
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