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Hospital's new budget treads line between bold and careful It foresees a year of challenges: huge capital expenses for projects like the Cancer Pavilion expansion (right), costs rising faster than patient volume, a rocky year for investments and an uncertain future for reimbursements. But projected earnings, although slightly more modest than last year's, are "hardly gloomy." >>More
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The biggest Epic "big bang" approaches All inpatient units and the Emergency Department are on the countdown to going live simulatenously on Sept. 3. Even after more than six months of lessons learned from dozens of clinics going live, "stress levels are high." But Epic Project Director Soren Schoultz says hundreds of staff are ready to take on the challenge. >>More
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Proven technology. Unproven business model. The 42,000-pound Gamma Knife set to arrive at UCH around the end of 2011 is not just a powerful addition to the hospital's arsenal of weapons to destroy tumors and other malformations in the brain. It's also an experiment in dismantling "the barriers between university and community practitioners." Left: Gamma Knife co-medical director and UCH neurosurgeon
Robert Breeze, MD. >>More
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Making the new electronic medical record meaningful UCH and University Physicians, Inc. are creeping closer to reaping the first tangible financial benefits of implementing an integrated electronic medical record, but faculty have given the ideas for splitting the money a "mixed reception." >>More
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No! Not the pork rinds! In This Hospital Life: The startling removal of pork rinds from the hospital's cafeterias led our reporter to wonder if the banishment is a case of bad PR and fast-food profiling by culinary clean-up crews. Plus: "What You Read" and a "Top Docs" correction. >>More
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When cancer really is a chronic, not a killer, disease A first-of-its-kind clinical trial at the Cancer Center is testing ways to help survivors navigate through ever-longer post-treatment life spans. The Cancer Center's Betsy Risendal, PhD (left), is principal investigator. >>More |
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Sidebar: Not looking far for inspiration It's hard to imagine a person better suited to create the nation's first chronic disease management program for cancer survivors (see above) than Stanford's Kate Lorig. >>More
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Award winners' service spans the hospital The winners of the third-quarter President's Awards did everything from improving BMT patients' diets to boosting the hospitals' bottom line. Left: Clinical Lab's Andrewlee Romero, center, with nominator Jennifer Smith and UCH President and CEO Bruce Schroffel, earned the World Class Care Award. >>More
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Around UCH Our regular roundup of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Respiratory gets dirty for a good cause (right); school supply drive hits home run; paycheck changes for employees; staff hoop it up; more. >>More
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Lowry Clinic goes the extra mile (and then some) to fight breast cancer Rachel Swigris convinced 13 of her colleagues that training for a triathlon to benefit Susan G. Komen Tri for the Cure was a good idea. They came away believers. Left: Swigris, second from left, front row, with nine others who participated in Tri for the Cure. >>More
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Dean Krugman's news The latest from the School of Medicine. >>More
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Dressing Down | With complaints about tattoos, tight clothes and other wardrobe malfunctions rising, a growing number of nurses, faculty, staffers and managers seem to be letting the year-old appearance policy slide. HR wants to give the policy a reboot -- and give the boot to flip-flops and other fashion faux pas. >>Go
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More Insurance = More ED Crowding? | All the health insurance in the world isn't going to keep the patient who can't get in to see a primary care physician out of the emergency room, a national study by campus researchers
-- including senior author Adit Ginde, MD, above -- concludes. Wanted: more PCPs. >>Go
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Epic's First "Quiet Revolution" | |
Long anticipated as something that would change the ways everyone at UCH does business, Epic's first six months has changed the conversation at the clinics that have launched it. The surprise: much of the shift is being pushed not by providers, but by patients suddenly able to see information long closed to them. The upshot: more demand to collaborate in their care. >>Go
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Mary Thomsen's Hospital Thread-Juggling Act | The director of care coordination (above) leads a team that's found the focus of discharging patients from the hospital on time has moved from the patient's condtion "to a host of nonmedical issues." They often require a surprising range of skills to resolve. >>Go
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