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In a bold move, the hospital looks to partner with Poudre Valley In a surprise seven months in the making, the leaders of both hospital systems signed a letter of intent to join hands. Together, they'd form one of the state's largest systems, create a wider award-winning network of care and, not least, muscle up to meet the uncertainties of reform. >>More
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First UCH/Children's joint delivery comes off with spectacular uneventfulness Years of planning and several months of simulations pay off. The infant, providers knew, would need surgery on his first day of life. Mother and baby (left) are doing fine. >>More
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A "very successful" Epic go live It wasn't just the fewer complaints. It was a change in atmosphere. The third wave of Ambulatory clinics to go live on Epic found the June 14 challenges, especially in once-sticky areas like medication management, much less daunting. Sidebar: But it wasn't easy, as the story of the eye drops suggests. >>More
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Seven seconds of quiet, followed by hours of angst A brief power break damaged sensitive imaging equipment, caused confusion (but no harm) in procedural areas, raised a lot of questions about how those red outlets are supposed to work, and convinced at least one unit to look into another solution. Sidebar: The really bad outage, a year later. >>More
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Pilot program to improve UCH service shows some "encouraging" results A carefully modeled pilot effort to improve patient and employee satisfaction reached a milestone with a lot of lessons learned about how to support staff, and some encouraging patient satisfaction news. >>More
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Children's changes -- or at least adds to -- its name The hospital, already on the US News honor roll for pediatric care, yesterday publicly unveiled its new Children's Hospital Colorado name as well as a broader connection to its national reputation. >>More
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A "bed brigade" reaches the inpatient pavilion An expensive, five-year effort to bring in new, updated patient beds reached another milestone this month, as a two-day assembly line readied 90 new beds now in patient rooms. >>More
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New, softer landing for sharps Hoping to reduce the number of accidental needle sticks and reduce waste at the same time, UCH has exchanged many of its 1,800 single-use sharps containers for safer reusable ones. >>More
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"When you've got your new heart, we're going to do Elephant Rock" Scarcely a year before, only a piece of technology was keeping a weak, out-of-breath Sean Crawley alive.Then, with a new heart in his chest and a UCH transplant coordinator who happens to be an avid cyclist at his side, he rode 34 miles to Elephant Rock. Left: Crawley with UCH Transplant Coordinator Nancy Ireland. >>More |
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A hospital-based smoking cessation pilot The hospital, the Cancer Center and the School of Medicine have pooled resources to see if they can get inpatients to quit smoking with a cessation program that combines medications and motivational counseling. >>More
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Epic takes over reminding docs to finish charting The adjustments are made, the system tested, and now providers will start getting regular countdowns to finish delinquent patient records. The hammer: a temporary suspension of privileges. >>More
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: insurance card snafu (right); blood donor buzz; PHun Run; steak-and-pie winner donates prize; more. >>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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An Unplanned Makeover for
Med Pumps | A Patient Safety Net report last month alerted leaders to a problem with pumps that monitor the dose, duration and delivery rates of meds. If left alone, it could compromise patient safety. But a mass effort to replace 3,000 connectors is underway. Above: Biomedical Engineering staff remediate pumps before sending them to Central Supply. >>Go
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Quieting the Rumble in
the NICU | Contractors and providers are hard at work these days to protect the hospital's tiniest patients - the wee people in the neonatal intensive care unit - from the biggest noises and vibrations of heavy contruction now rattling the west side of the Critical Care Wing. So far, so good. >>Go
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Big Employee Opinion Boom | A scientific "pulse survey" update suggested employees at the 40 UCH work units that scored lowest in last fall's Employee Opinion Survey are more engaged and feeling a lot better about their workplace than they did six months ago. >>Go
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Death Becomes Them | In This Hospital Life, a pair of colleagues in the Decedent Affairs Office (above) manage to bring out the best of the hospital in the worst of times. Plus "What You Read." >>Go
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Born with
Brain Injuries | Why - and when - some neonates suffer strokes has become just the first part of a "30-year project" to cure them. Physician Jennifer Armstrong-Wells (above) leads the effort. >>Go
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