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Board pours extra money into UCH pension plan To keep the employee retirement plan fully funded, the Board of Directors voted late last month to kick in an addition $6.4 million. With annual contributions expected to take up a larger part of each year's budget, however, the Board asked hospital management to start coming up with some options for the plan in the future. >>More |
New I-225 exit set to open, but campus traffic congestion may not ease for a while The new exit from southbound I-225 at 17th Place is scheduled to open Thursday, but, for now, it will lead to a major roadblock: construction for the new VA. "A great exit, but we can't use it to get to campus," says one campus leader. UCH and Children's Hospital Colorado leaders, meanwhile, are working to get wayfinding signs to the hospitals for patients and visitors who exit at 17th Place. >>More |
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How healthy are we? The hospital will start a new round of getting employees to uncover risks to their health, and is offering a still-bigger health insurance break to those who take it up on its offer. The online Health Risk Assessment survey begins March 1. Also: schedules for free biometric assessment clinics. >>More |
Sidebar: A test result that led to something big Ambulatory Service's Debbie Franco (right) isn't overweight, doesn't have high blood pressure and has a perfectly normal body mass index. But she got a surprise from her Health Risk Assessment last year that spurred her to make needed lifestyle changes. >>More |
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Hospital focuses on a new kind of patient safety A new program aims to keep employees safe while they are helping - and sometimes lifting and moving - patients. But doing that, it seems, may require changing a culture of "manual lifting," says injury prevention coordinator Paul Davis (left). >>More |
"Skin gets forgotten" Bedside rounding has helped the Surgical Intensive Care Unit dramatically drive down the incidence of pressure ulcers that complicate life - and care - for the critically ill. The quality improvement project, launched by nurses Alyson Kelleher and Mandy Moorer (left to right, holding poster presentation) with help from research nurse scientist Mary Beth Flynn Makic (far right), drew national interest at a conference last month and will be published in March. >>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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President's Awards highlight team and individual efforts Winners for the first trimester of fiscal year 2012 included 51- and 34-person teams as well as three individuals. Left: Clinical Lab's David Howshar (center), with UCH President John Harney and nominator Kelly Michels, earned the Rock Solid Economics award. >>More
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Out of the ashes A year and a half ago, Don Keller's body caught fire after the gas water heater in his home exploded, leaving nearly half his body badly burned. With the hospital's Burn Center and his own dogged determination, Keller (right) has reclaimed his life and is using his traumatic experience to help other burn patients who are struggling toward recovery. Keller was back at the hospital last week to help the Burn Center celebrate its fifth consecutive American Burn Association verification. >>More |
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Mondo (left) helps Hearts of All Ages hit the sweet spot; Small Grants program asks for ideas; Burn Center keeps the homeless covered; Wellness Day raffle winners make a haul; more. >>More |
UCH in the News Alternative lifestyles, old-school habits; swinging a save of orangutan; a modern-day Ponce de Leon; more. Mentions: Ruben Alvero; John Brinton; Tessa Crune; Don Elliman; Katie Fuenning; Deborah Glueck; Arnold Levinson; Kerrie Moreau; Cindy O'Bryant; Julie Scott; Monique Spillman; Jerry Wartgow. >>More
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Dean Krugman's news The latest at the School of Medicine. >>More
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Flood of Interest
in New Campus Wellness Center | Although no one knows the prices yet, some 800 people have reserved memberships in the big new campus health and wellness facility, which won't open for another two months. "It's something that really doesn't exist anywhere else in the country." >>Go
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New Name to Appear on Employee Insurance Cards | Though it's not official yet, Cigna will soon be replacing Anthem as the administrator for the health plans shared by the hospital, the university and UPI. Plan names may also change after Cigna beat four other bidders. >>Go
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Another Try at Improving Patient Satisfaction | Repeated attempts to keep patient sat scores consistently high have fallen short and could threaten employee incentive bonuses this year. After months of efforts to find out why, leaders will hold a "service excellence" kickoff next week that aims to raise the stakes still higher. Above: Nurse Manager Angela Hill (front row, far right, holding book) and her staff are homing in on patients' biggest concerns. >>Go
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Jeffrey Olson Preserves Eye Center's Streak | The ophthalmologist (above, right) became the Eye Center's third straight "inventor of the year" for a process to revive damaged retinas by injecting, of all things, nano-bits of silicon into the eye. >>Go
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Shaking off a Dangerous Fall
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Sieglinde McConnell's path to recovery from a skiing concussion and whiplash injury was a long one. But McConnell (above) put the pieces of her life back together, with help along the way from sports medicine, physical therapy and speech pathology. >>Go
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