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After a 13-month engagement, UCH, Poudre Valley tie the knot Bruce Schroffel and Poudre Valley's Rulon Stacey (left, signing Joint Operating Agreement)
soon will step away from their current jobs to run the new University of Colorado Health system. After a three-to-five month transition period, the new system will be the parent of UCH, Poudre Valley Hospital and Medical Center of the Rockies, from a home somewhere on or near the Anschutz Campus. >>More |
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Sidebar: So what do we call it? And what will it look like? Creating a new hospital system out of two already-successful ones, each with its own strong identity, also meant creating a name for it. It might have been a politically charged process. Ultimately, the new partners ended up with something that looked like a combination of strengths, right down to the logo. >>More
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The potatoes in our heads In Campus Diary: Professor of Cell and Development Biology John Caldwell tries to explain the connections between our brains and tubers. Also: Aubrey Robinson (left) says good-bye; trading "girlie goods" for spine data; the February update on New Year's resolutions, new employee arrivals and more. >>More |
Payers' scrutiny of claims doubles Stepping up their hunt for waste - and their efforts to reduce the amounts they pay hospitals for services - commercial insurers are challenging UCH inpatient claims twice as frequently as they did last fiscal year. The scrutiny, part of the national effort to control health care costs, promises to accelerate even more, but the hospital's compliance auditors are putting up a spirited defense. >>More
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Cutting patient falls remains a mystery After 15 years and more than 40 evidence-based interventions to prevent patients from falling, leaders say UCH's fall rate "has not improved significantly." Data dives, though, offer some hope that tailored interventions, such as one spearheaded by Oncology and BMT nurse Johanna Crock, RN (right), could yield success. >>More |
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Sidebar: The fall prediction challenge UCH is trying to make predicting which patients are at highest risk to suffer a fall into a more precise science, and looking for new ways to keep patients safe. Third-year hospitalist resident Kyle Inman, MD (left) is part of a quality improvement project team that took on the challenge. >>More |
Waiting to expire The hospital's ID badges all have an expiration date, but the date isn't visible on older ones. That's already caused inconvenience for a few people, and to prevent more, Support Services is sending out 6,000 emails reminding badge holders to get free replacements. >>More
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How Poudre Valley proved its mettle In This Hospital Life: During a tragic flood 15 years ago, UCH staffer Mary Ann Saussotte (right) found out just what our new partners to the north are made of. Plus: "What You Read." >>More |
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"Groundhog Year" at the legislature Still under the budgetary gun, the new state legislative session is again focused on the same money issues as last year - and the year before - including possible cuts to Medicaid and to reform measures that face an uncertain future. >>More |
Mixing science, therapies and a lot of business savvy, Gail Eckhardt wins Tech Transfer Office honor The head of the hospital's phase 1 cancer clinical trials program and Medical Oncology at the med school (right) helps lead the push to get pharmaceutical companies to usher promising drugs from lab to market. Eckhardt was named "Business Advisor of the Year" by the CU office, which helps innovators get their ideas to market. >>More |
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Ambulatory's Carolee Whitehill (left, with Emergency Medicine's Ben Honigman, MD) waves farewell; time to rock the Top Docs vote; Medical Staff honors; more... >>More |
UCH in the News The MS mystery; getting a grip on grape seed; is grief depression? more. Mentions: Rajesh Agarwal; Michael Bristow; Cheryl Chessick; Gail Eckhardt; Richard Johnson; Richard Krugman; John Messenger; Jeffrey Olson; Dimple Patel; Timothy Vollmer; Robert Winn. >>More
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Dean Krugman's news The latest at the School of Medicine. >>More
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John Harney to Take over as UCH President | With only a few days to get used to the idea, the new president (above) already is aiming to come out of the transition to the new UCH-Poudre Valley system with the Schroffel culture intact, close ties to faculty and employees, and an agenda that will keep the hospital in the top tier of academic hospitals. >>Go
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So Far, Financials Stay Bright | The hospital reached the halfway point of what could be the most eventful year in its history with most financial indicators flashing "go." >>Go
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A Path to Be
Less Traveled | A well-trod hallway that linked to the Leprino Bridge from the Critical Care Wing is closing February 8, and will never open again. Pedestrians will be directed left, right, up or down; just not straight anymore. It's part of the remodeling taking place as the new buildings join the "old." >>Go
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Five Straight for the Burn Center | The well-regarded unit earned its fifth consecutive verification from the American Burn Association last month. Above: some of the team members who maintain the high standards. From left: EVS's Angelica Maestas; Nurse Educator Cameron Boyle; Nurse Manager Mary Holden; and Outreach Coordinator Katie Fuenning. >>Go
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Finding Sends Pharmacy Scrambling | A practice for labeling multdose medication vials that the Joint Commission okayed three years ago was cited as out-of-standard during the agency's December survey. Pharmacy didn't agree, but it's altered its practices and installed frequent audits to make sure it's complying. >>Go
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HR Looks Eastward to
Be "Liked" | Human Resources already nimbly explores social media, and now a campaign here and in New York, Cleveland and Chicago is getting job-seekers to "like" its new job openings list on Facebook. And it is working, say HR's Marcey McDonald (above left) and Betsy Slemmons. >>Go
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