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The building boom continues to, well, boom Somehow, the construction crane has become the official bird of the Anschutz Medical Campus. A few of the new university buildings are nearing occupancy, while most of the UCH, Children's Hospital Colorado and even VA buildings are about to get even higher off the ground. >>More
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Campus partners resolve to improve services to patients and community providers The hospital, the School of Medicine and UPI have joined forces to solve some big, long-standing, nagging access problems and to streamline continuity of care for patients. A commitee dubbed ACT I has begun the hard work by focusing on three key issues. >>More
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Sidebar: ACT I effort a reaction to change in the health care rules
As other funding shrinks, "it's important that physicians understand how to create value as we prepare for the new environment of health care," says one commitee leader. Left: David West, PhD, helped convene campus partners in a collaborative effort to create what he calls "sustainable change." >>More
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Campus docs land prominently on the 5280 "Top Docs" list again Fifty-two physicians from 42 different specialties were named in the annual popularity contest, and four more were featured in stories in the magazine's annual list. The number of honorees did represent a decline from last year's 63 clinicians. >>More
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Despite the Health Risk Assessment results, another wellness program victory A hospital-sponsored wellness program helped UCH master plumber Mark Blair (left) lose nearly 60 pounds and, not least, the need for an immediate second knee replacement. >>More
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Treating the "invisible wounds of war"
Widely recognized campus neurologist James Kelly (right) is on leave in Maryland, leading a new center to care for soldiers returning to the U.S. with traumatic brain injuries described as "problems we've never even seen before." >>More
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A second stop-smoking course; five new non-smokers This time around, the hospital opened its smoking cessation programs to spouses as well as employees, and applied the lessons learned from the previous sessions. They worked. Left: Materials Management Applications Specialist Deanna Sharbono and husband Mark kicked their long-time smoking habits. >>More
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A program to help little people with big problems The university is one of only a dozen sites in the U.S. to offer highly sought-after fellowships for specialized training in in infant and early childhood mental health. Right: Harris Program Fellow Michelle Roy spends some of her training time honing her skills in UCH's Community Based Psychiatry program. >>More
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Linksters sizzle at Burn Center golf tourney (left); Marketing Department bags honor for Bon Jovi promotion; consultant declares UCH a beautiful hospital no more; time to meditate; more... >>More
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A "serious honor" in a tough grant-funding era A rare Pew Charitable Trust grant has given Chad Pearson's work inside tiny human cells a big platform. It's in cells' "construction zones." >>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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UCH's Big Bad 3: Alcohol, Stress and Depression | Some of the results of the recent Health Risk Assessment were, well, sobering. Example: "impaired time" costs for the 18 percent of UCH employees with untreated depression is about $1.4 million a year in salary, plus health care costs. The hospital is looking to more lifestyle-change incentives. >>Go
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UCH Among Hospitals Battling Drug Shortages | To keep its stock up, UCH even updates an "urgent drug shortage list" weekly. More than 100 drugs are on it at the moment, and Pharmacy routinely works a "sporadic" and "unreliable" national supply chain to secure them. Meanwhile, Congress is weighing one fix. >>Go
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The RN Survey
What the Nurses Think | A whopping 95% of UCH nurses took this year's RN survey. In general, they said they liked working at the hospital, but added a certain dissatisfaction with "staffing and resource adequacy." Leaders think it may have to do with volume at the hospital. >>Go
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The Two Dirtiest Words in Health Care | |
Fresh from a stale conference room in a beautiful setting, our This Hospital Life correspondent comes up with two new health care swear words. Plus: "What You Read." >>Go
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Cholesterol-Lowering Pills for the Dying? | |
That was one of the questions pondered in a rare clinical trial to find the best paths to quality of life for patients with "life-limiting" prognoses. Above: Internal Medicine Division Chief Jean Kutner, MD, is a co-principal investigator Sidebar: a grant that might be a "proof of concept" for palliative care. >>Go
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UCH in the News | Stretching cancer risk; taking care up the country; employers pained by prescription narcotics; more. Mentions: Vincent Atchity; Tim Byers; John Carroll; Elizabeth Connick; Ryan Gamble; Stephen Hunger; Nancy Krebs; Kathryn Mueller; Betsy Risendal; Diane Skiba. >>Go
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