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| Hospital closes Blood Donor Center doors, ponders next move The move was voluntary and involved no safety issues, as UCH worked to "retool" and rethink its operations after a FDA inspection. A decision about the center's ultimate fate is due some time after the holidays. >>More |
| Traffic restrictions on 17th Required construction on a storm line will close the road and the Leprino Garage the weekend of Oct. 21, and one lane of 17th will remain closed Oct. 24-31. Details, map inside. >>More |
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What about the gym? Can we use it? The new Anschutz Health and Wellness Center's opening is still six months off. Despite its unique ambition to blend physiologists, nutritionists, exercise scientists, metabolic maestros and other researchers in what may be the planet's most serious commitment to wellness, almost all the questions are about one thing. >>More
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For the first Coloradoan in a transplant clinical trial, "a new lease on life" Mark Tomes (left) is just at the start of life with a new lung, but he swears it's already the difference between "just hanging on" and living. >>More |
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A trial that could dramatically increase the number of donor lungs
For Mark Tomes' transplant, cardiothoracic surgeon Michael Weyant, MD (right), removed a donor lung prior to transplant so he could make a more informed decision about its viability. UCH is one of four sites in a trial of the procedure, called ex-vivo lung perfusion, which could double the number of lungs available for transplant and shorten waiting lists. >>More |
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Aiming higher than even number one in quality and safety A revamped and upgraded "Patient Safety Net," the system for reporting and remedying scary patient "events," will debut October 24. It's a key to improving systems to keep patients safe as care gets still more complex and still more tightly regulated. Senior Quality Improvement Specialist Carol Ruscin (above) says the upgraded system should make it easier for staff to report events. >>More |
100 issues at a see-through hospital In This Hospital Life: At a milestone, UCH's newsletter finds itself pondering a life that probably could happen only at a hospital determined to be "transparent." Plus "What You Read" and Letters. >>More |
| East meets West in the Outpatient Pavilion Two clinics, one based in evidenced-based Western medicine and one in balance-seeking Eastern techniques, share a practice manager and a goal of mitigating patients' pain. But they often treat populations of patients that are different, and not always for clinical reasons. >>More |
"Not only how long they live, but how well" With payers, physicians and hospitals necessarily focused on easy-to-count mortality data and readmission rates, cardiologist Larry Allen (right) and his co-authors have studied how to help heart failure patients (and providers) learn to predict not just the quantity, but also the quality of life they can expect.>>More |
| Emergency stickers will rock the (telephone) cradle Support Services will soon distribute more than 1,700 tidy stickers with at-a-glance information to relay to 911 dispatchers in emergencies. They'll sit in the cradle of phones throughout hospital buildings. >>More |
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Around UCH Take the HRA, win an iPad2; Flu campaign starts at the top (left); preceptors of the quarter; putting cancer in the penalty box; more... >>More |
| UCH in the News Dispensing with discharge planning; the skinny on nutrition values; easy-to-get propofol; more. Mentions: Rachel Cleaves; Jim Ellis; Stacy Fischer; Kim Gorman; Frank Lisnow; Steve Millette; Lorie Obernauer; Bruce Schroffel; Marion Sills; Rulon Stacey; Tien Vu; Paul Wischmeyer. >>More |
| Dean Krugman's news The latest from the School of Medicine. >>More |
| CU Medicine Today In the fall edition of the School of Medicine's semi-annual magazine: transitioning from pediatric to adult care on the Anschutz Medical Campus. >>More |
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| | Magnet Nurse of the Year Tracey Anderson (second from left) with (from left) Danielle Schloffman, Carolyn Sanders and Terry Rendler at ANCC Magnet Conference in Baltimore.
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Tracey Anderson Named Magnet Nurse of the Year | | The innovative nurse practitioner with the Neurosurgery ICU was one of just five nurses nationally to earn the prestigious honor from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. >>Go |
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Lost in the Hoopla, Another Big Recognition | Costs for supplies and technology (everything from drugs to monitors to trash bags) account for a good third of the hospital's expenses. University HealthSystem Consortium last month named UCH's critical supply chain operation 5th best in the U.S. among academic hospitals for controlling supply and drug expenses and maintaining financial stability. >>Go
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UCH Debuts New Leukemia Therapy | With a harvest of cord blood cells from a new stem cell-growing technique pioneered at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Research in Seattle, UCH's Jonathan Gutman, MD (above), made a pregnant patient the first in the state to benefit. With video. >>Go
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Four Weeks in, Smokers Soldier toward Quit Day | Smokers in a hospital-sponsored cessation class reached the halfway point in their effort to kick the habit. With a designated "quit day" less than two weeks away, anxiety for some of them is on the rise. Second in a series. >>Go
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The Campus's Surgeon/
entrepeneur | The campus's surgeon-entrepreneur, Arlen Meyers (above) is an MD, an MBA and a serial entrepreneur. He's also on a not-so-secret mission to change the biotech world. >>Go
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