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Hospital bids for Memorial
A task force drew close to making a decision that would recommend that UCH, Poudre Valley and a group that includes Children's Colorado and the university be given the chance to lease and operate Colorado Springs' venerable Memorial Health System. The arrangement, if finalized, brings adding a storied southern hub to the new UCH/Poudre Valley system closer to reality. >>More |
Patient parkers accommodated; hospital leaders head back to Leprino Leaders - from the CEO on down - moved out of the Leprino Garage last spring to free up more parking for patients. Now that the new patient garage (right) has opened, many are preparing got to move back this week. >>More |
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A weight debate in the ED
A patient's weight determines the precise dose of tPA, the life-saving clot-buster, to give a stroke patient. A UCH study of stroke patients admitted to the hospital shows weight estimates were often incorrect, although there is no evidence patient outcomes were affected. A solution has arrived, but the concern over taking the time to weigh stroke patients, who lose brain cells by the minute, continues. >>More |
Head of the food chain New Food & Nutrition Services Director Victoria Franklin (right) comes from a fantastically successful retail restaurant family, but her heart is in bigger kitchens. Her blunt first look at UCH's inpatient room service: "not functioning at the level that it should." >>More |
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Happy This Year! In This Hospital Life: For UCH, 2011 came in with a bang and is ending with... more bangs. Plus: "What You Read" and the year's top stories. >>More |
A new valve for Thanksgiving UCH joined Children's Colorado as the only hospitals in the state to do a minimally invasive pulmonary valve replacement procedure to solve the congenital narrowing of a blood vessel feeding the right ventricle. The first procedure at UCH, the day before Thanksgiving, spared a young patient open-heart surgery -- and decreased his risk of sudden death. >>More |
Now hear this: initialize your voice mail The hospital began sending out house-wide emails instructing employees how to prepare for the new voice mail system that goes live Jan. 11. Do it by Jan. 10, Information Services advises, or you won't get voice messages. Inside: instructions for activating your voice mailbox. >>More
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32, pregnant, battling heart problems and blood clots SICU nurse Erin Dillard saw a gravely patient through a terrible time with "calm and understanding" as her military husband raced home to see his wife one last time. For her efforts, Dillard (center, with Chief Nursing Officer Carolyn Sanders, left, and SICU Nurse Manager Martha Paulsen) earned the DAISY Award for exceptional nursing care. >>More |
Scoreboard The latest on how we're doing in quality outcomes, patient satisfaction, and other data we use to compete with ourselves and measure our success. >>More
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They came, they SAW, they conquered Thirteen hospital employees spent 21 weeks sharpening the skills that could help them advance their careers - while they handled their regular job duties. They're members of the hospital's second School at Work (SAW) graduating class (most of whom are pictured, left). A crowd gathered in the Leprino Building Dec. 1 to honor their achievement. Sidebar: WISH Clinic CTA Kathryn Turner discusses the challenge. >>More |
Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: a dog star (right) visits campus; picketers on parade; iPads for the holidays; more... >>More |
UCH in the news Library thief booked; sleeping at the anesthesia switch; bone marrow for pay; more. Mentions: Jessica Anderson; Stephen Berman; James Crapo; Brian Davidson; Anthony DeFurio; Charles Dinarello; Thomas Finger; Jonathan Gutman; Sue Kinnamon; Richard Krugman; Jerry Perry; Rulon Stacey. >>More
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Dean Krugman's news The latest from the School of Medicine. >>More
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Three More Years! UCH Earns JC Accreditation | After a thorough, weeklong triennial visit, seven Joint Commission surveyors bestowed the hospital with a three-year accreditation -- and heaped plenty of praise on staff and faculty for the way they deliver care.>>Go
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Saving the Tree | Trees are often a construction project's first victims. But on the construction site west of the Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion, huge rumbling trucks and thousands of tons of swinging steel are dancing carefully around a 50-some year-old blue spruce that hospital leaders are determined to save. >>Go
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"A Win all Around" | It took several departments, quick legwork, answers to a lot of questions and moving some work from nurses to respiratory therapists, but the hospital has adopted a method of delivering inhaled meds to respiratory patients that saves money without sacrificing safety. >>Go
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Float Parade Aids Busy Clinics | They're "disparate and dispersed." They don't have permanent workplaces. But the 23 nurses, medical assistants and care team assistants in UCH's ambulatory float pool do whatever they can to plug the gaps in short-staffed clinics. Float Pool Manager Jane Chadwick (above) deploys troops where they're needed most. >>Go
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An Injury-Free Turkey Giveaway | A new $33,000 mechanical beast (above) paid immediate dividends on Thanksgiving. Thanks to a heavy-duty forklift (and some better bags) this year was injury free for volunteers lifting thousands of frozen birds. >>Go
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