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New patient/visitor parking garage to open next week The "first major milestone" of the hospital's huge construction projects to be finished, the garage should be a big new convenience for patients and reduce the number of late appointments. Next up: finish the Cancer Pavilion, the new tower and the new employee/faculty garage. >>More |
Revenue and income rise again -- but expenses climb faster
There's more great news in the October financial report, but also a troubling new detail: expenses for the year have risen faster than earnings. >>More
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Campus Diary In our new monthly column about campus oddities, wonders and residents: Mike Glodé (left) on the cancer risks in sitting; UCH's biggest flu shot wusses; weird signage; the anthropologist in quality improvement. Plus: who's new at the enterprise. >>More |
A new UCH Web site look debuts As site visitors go more mobile and users' needs change, the hospital unveiled a new format for its home page. The new look, already used to feature cancer and cardio content, will continue migrating through the site's 1,800-some pages. >>More
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Addressing a sensitive drug situation Pharmacist Amy Go (right) and faculty member Stephen Dreskin, MD, joined forces to shorten the painfully slow path to get patients back on the antibiotics that once caused potentially life-threatening allergic reactions. >>More |
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A natural infection fighter in the NICU Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and necrotizing enterocolitis threaten the lives and health of the hospital's tiniest patients. But after it added breast milk to its "bundle" of preventive treatments, the NICU went 291 straight days without a single VAP case. Other hospitals are asking about milk's preventive punch, says the NICU's Kirtley Ceballos (left). >>More |
The kindness of strangers In This Hospital Life: how an attentive stewardess, a quick-thinking physician, some efficient paramedics and a diverse team of UCH providers (right) plucked stroke victim Rick Hamilton out of the sky, dissolved a large blood clot and put him back on the golf course. >>More |
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Appearing presidential The hospital moved downtown for a glitzy President's Award dinner Nov. 10 that honored employees and faculty who provided outstanding service during the past year. Left: Diane Haney of Materials Management, winner of the Exceptional Leadership award. >>More |
Predicting life after surgery A new study from the University of Colorado School of Medicine indicates that a test that lasts less than a minute helps to predict how well elderly patients will recover from surgical procedures. >>More
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"Luis won't leave" In July, UCH brought on its first-ever neurocritical care fellow. He immensely increased the hospital's capacity for neurocritical care but now the challenge is to make Luis Cava, MD (pictured on the right with Neuro ICU medical director Bob Neumann), take a break now and then. >>More |
Parlez-vous ICD-10? To get paid, the hospital has its coders translate clinicians' often complicated notes and procedures into the 70,000-some 5-digit diagnosis codes included in the International Classification of Disease, version nine (ICD-9). But that number will explode in less than two years, when ICD-10 debuts. Coding supervisors Ruth Hadley (pictured on the left) and Sherri Ward are preparing for the training and recruitment challenge. >>More |
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: hospital flips staff the birds (left); EOS open forums; UCH/Park Lane toy story; more... >>More |
UCH in the News Remembering memory loss; fertility after cancer treatment; the Avastin debate; more. Mentions: E. David Crawford; Stephen Daniels; Anthony Elias; Curt Freed; Kerry Hildreth; James O. Hill; Fred Hirsch; Thomas Robinson; Shaliendra Sharman; Alpna Tyagi; Holly Wyatt. >>More
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Dean Krugman's news The latest from the School of Medicine. >>More
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Walgreens to Drop from UCH Rx Network | | A price war between two industry giants has pushed Walgreens out of employees' pharmacy network, effective Jan. 1. What to do to prepare for the change. >>Go |
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Psst...UCHers to Get a New Voice Mail System | Although employees will notice little difference, they'll start talking through a bigger, faster and more flexible system on Jan. 11. They will, however, have to activate their new mailboxes first. Instructions are coming Dec. 9. >>Go
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Laser Surgery for Cataracts | It's the first new technique for removing cataracts in roughly three decades. Physicians Richard Davidson (above) and Michael Taravella at UCH's Eye Center will be the first in the metro area to start using the new technology, which makes precise, blade-free incisions. >>Go
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A Group Effort at the Seniors Clinic | Bringing a dozen or so elderly patients together for group appointments yields big benefits for everyone, including patients, docs and the bottom line. The only question: how to bill for it? Above: Social worker Patricia Schulof and geriatrician John Scott facilitate the monthly meetings, but patients call the shots. >>Go
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| Collaboration between UCH and Children's Hospital Colorado -- already increasing with the new Colorado Institute for Maternal & Fetal Health -- took another, more personal leap forward when Children's Colorado nurses reached across campus to help UCH NICU nurses coping with the Epic "big bang." Christy Math, nurse manager of UCH's NICU (above) wants to keep the cooperative spirit alive. >>Go
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