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Springs city council endorses UCH's, partners' bid to lease Memorial After months of prep and politics, the council unanimously accepted a task force's recommendation to lease the Memorial Health System to UCH's and Poudre Valley's soon-to-be-system, Children's Colorado, and the university. Next: months of negotiation and maybe a citywide vote before the deal is sealed. >>More
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Beam me up: UCH tops new inpatient tower In a ceremony President and CEO Bruce Schroffel admitted would have been unimaginable five years ago, the hospital "topped off" its rapidly rising 12-story inpatient tower with a one-ton beam positioned at the structure's highest point. Next up: a 15-month sprint to the project's scheduled completion date. >>More |
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Breast Imaging passes a nerve-wracking test It does some 14,000 mammograms each year, and each includes crucial audit information. But despite lots of extra help from Epic reps, the race to get all those records from IDX into the new EMR in time for an FDA inspection went down to the wire, says Breast Imaging Chief Lara Hardesty, MD (near left, with Breast Imaging Manager Dana Knapp). The welcome results: a completely clean record. >>More |
Targeting medical errors The number of "patient safety net" (PSN) reports about medical "occurrences" that endangered or could have endangered patient safety is creeping up, but not as quickly as the hospital hoped. The first meeting of a new, more powerful quality committee focused on ways to communicate to staff that PSNs are vital to creating a safe hospital environment. >>More
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New expertise in adult congenital heart disease Fresh from a four-year fellowship at the famed Mayo Clinic, Amber Khanna, MD (right), has joined UCH's growing program for adults with congenital heart defects, which has nearly tripled its volume since 2003. She's helping to serve a clinically and socially complex group of patients, including women who face reproductive issues and high-risk pregnancies because of their cardiac defects. >>More |
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Changing eating and living habits The hospital's Health Risk Assessment was a wake-up call for care team assistant Karen Guzman (left), who found she was pre-diabetic, arthritic and overweight. She decided to do something about it, spending 12 weeks in the hospital-sponsored "Body Inspire Boot Kamp." The results, she says, were body changing as well as "mind changing." >>More |
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The other long, hard road to get patients out of the ED Yes, it can be a long wait for an inpatient bed to open. But getting patients in the ED or Express Admit Unit to the next point in the "continuum of care" outside the hospital can also be a challenging job -- one that requires sensitivity and a willingness to cut through red tape. Left: Social Work's Judy Mayne sorts it out for referring physicians. >>More |
A bank too valuable to fail The University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank, located just off-campus, recently signed a new agreement with three Arizona hospitals that promises to make the federally funded bank, already a critical source for blood cell transplants, even more of a linchpin for procedures all over the world. Right: Brian Freed, PhD, executive director of ClinImmune Labs, the parent company of the bank, stands near freezers containing bags of cord blood. >>More |
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The low-key man who makes research go Beneath the radar, pharmacist Ken Esterday is a thinker, an ethicist and a diplomat who helps make sure a clinical trial has the right moral as well as clinical and scientific stuff to be launched. And then he manages UCH's large and complex Investigational Drug Service, keeping pharmaceutical watch over some 100 clinical research projects. >>More |
Drilling down on top hospital rankings In "This Hospital Life": the author finds going to the dentist and trying to get the hospital on the US News "Top Hospitals" list aren't all that different. Plus: "What You Read." >>More |
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. this issue: Plaudits for PVHS; a celebration of wellness; hula-hooping for health; a tax-time ritual. >>More |
The thanks of a grateful hospital President and CEO Bruce Schroffel surprised medical oncologist Ross Camidge, MD, PhD (seated, right) with the UCH Foundation's "Grateful Patient and Family" award. Camidge's work with lung cancer patients and families has helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for the Cancer Center's Lung Cancer Colorado Fund. >>More |
Dean Krugman's news The latest from the School of Medicine. >>More
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"Rave Reviews" for Bariatric Surgery Program | UCH's Surgical Weight Loss Center was accredited this month as a "Bariatric Center of Excellence." It's an important, respected blessing of its quality, and opens the way for health insurance coverage for more patients. >>Go
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Bariatric Patients Get Plenty of Food for Thought | Bariatric surgery at UCH comes with a non-negotiable change of lifestyle, before and after the procedure, says dietitian Lisa Kassel (above). >>Go
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"Frailest of the Frail" Have New Cardiac Option | UCH's Valve Clinic is about to become the first in the state - and one of only 16 in the country - to offer patients with weakened aortic valves a minimally invasive alternative to open heart surgery. But it's like "replacing an engine cylinder via the tailpipe." >>Go
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An Unexpected Arrival at UCH | But the hospital wasn't nearly as surprised as Joanna Mendoza. Expectant mom Mendoza was at home when her fourth child, Sophia, decided to make a quick and dramatic entrance. Above: Mendoza at UCH with Sophia and her six-year-old sister Regina. >>Go
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An Ever-sharper Debate over Vitamin D | Everyone knows it's necessary. Not everyone knows it's not really a vitamin. It has fanatical believers and implacable skeptics. How much is beneficial? How much is toxic? A clinical trial by UCH's Adit Ginde, MD, MPH (above), that aims to study vitamin D's effects on respiratory illness promises to add fuel to the fire. >>Go
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UCH in the News | What happens when folks get high (up); a Novartis no-no; prescriptions for disaster; more. Mentions: Paul Bunn; Christopher Franklin; Matthew Haemer; Catherine Jankowski; Ellen Matthews; Gina Moore; Robert Roach; Joseph Saseen; Greg Stiegmann; Jeff Thompson. >>Go
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