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Volume 5 | Issue 2 | Through August 2, 2011
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Physician Briefing  
 
 
 
 
VA Lot Trees 

100 more parking spaces to open in the "VA lot" With permission to clear away mostly dead, diseased foliage from the lot at 17th & Quentin in hand, the hospital expects to create room for more cars by the end of August. It should end the VA overflow and relieve the building jam in the temporary Colfax lot. >>More  

US News Billboard 

We're blushing US News & World Report named UCH the best hospital in the metro area for the second time, and named multiple UCH specialties as among the best in the nation for the 17th straight time. Pulmonology jumped to #1, cancer took a big leap from #44 to #34 and, among other highlights, neuro returned to the list for the first time since 2007. 

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The number of patients keeps growing; the number of beds doesn't But with an even more creative shoehorn, leadership re-purposed some existing space for a new Express Admit/Surge Unit to handle overflow and organized a sort-of capacity management SWAT team to get patients into rooms faster. >>More

 

 
Boden Discharge Lounge  

And at the end of the inpatient stay... "Re-opening" with newly regular hours, a little more comfort and a lot more friendliness, the Discharge Lounge hopes to relieve bed congestion upstairs by giving discharged patients a good, secure place to wait for their transportation home. Left: Phil Boden, who's taken over responsibility for the room, has added some new, patient-friendly touches. >>More  

 

New year's "critical success factors" look a lot like last year's Leadership again identified 14 goals critical to UCH's overall health for the new 2012 fiscal year. But several of last year's goals were missed. >>More

Scoreboard The update -- the last for fiscal year 2011 -- of how well the hospital and its employees are doing at meeting the organization's critical success factors and other goals. >>More .

 

Telemetry Rollout  

Telemetry diverts may be over

The most difficult, sensitive operation at the hospital last Sunday may have been the replacement of the hospital's telemetry system without, literally, missing a heartbeat. Months in the making, a complex dance between multiple departments and teams replaced some 80 units on one big day. Sidebar: Planning for the worst turns out to be for the best. >>More

 
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Coming soon: our first app 

It's not quite like our first tooth, but UCH is marking the start of a new era with an app that allows iPhone users to connect directly to the popular My Health Connection, medical records, test results and doctors' offices. Other smartphones apps are on the way. >>More  

 

Patient council wins an award for its welcome-to-UCH video Available in inpatient rooms, the user-friendly guided tour helps patients know what to expect at a big, complicated academic medical center. >>More .

 

Jean Burrows   

Around UCH Our regular roundup of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: farewell to a longtime hospital volunteer (right); graffiiti tags the AIP; Burn Center, CeDAR tournament tee-offs approach; more.

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Tower Construction
The New Tower Switches Directions
Construction so far has been digging downward. In August, with the arrival of a behemoth 250-foot crane that will build an even bigger crane, the steel is set to start going upward. >>Go
Employees See Health Insurance Reform's First Tangible Benefit 
With the start of a new health plan year, employees and others covered by the Health & Welfare Trust no longer will have a co-pay or a deductible for most kinds of preventive care visits. >>Go
Carl Miller    
Partners Long Ago
In This Hospital Life: A decade before a word passed between hospital leaders Bruce Schroffel and Rulon Stacey, Carl Miller's life depended on a connection between UCH and Poudre Valley Hospital. >>Go

UCH Joining an Effort
to Control Surgical-Site Infections
Even at a hospital like UCH with a low infection rate, adopting standardized protocols that could cut rates even more can raise providers' hackles. But UCH hopes that a "bundle" of Institute for Healthcare Improvement-backed preventive measures will save patients and the hospital a bundle of problems. >>Go

Green Roof  
A "Green Roof" for the New "Wellness Center
Literally green: an environmentally friendly vegetable garden to fuel the wellness kitchen at the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center scheduled to open next spring, and a novel hangout with a great view for students, faculty and alums. >>Go

UCH in the News
Shaken debate stirred; a Botox wrinkle; two-faced enzyme; more. Mentions: Lorraine Dugoff; Guido Frank; James O. Hill; Jason Krutsch; Chuan Li; Desmond Runyan; Jeff Thompson; Kenneth Tyler. >>Go

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