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After three decades, at the top (again) Leading a big, complex health care organization is nothing new for John Harney, who assumed the presidency of UCH March 1. He reflects on his 30 years of experience, including the last four at UCH and more than a quarter century at hospitals in the South Bronx and Manhattan. >>More |
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Homemade soups? In bed? Prepackaged and preprocessed foods are out. Fresh and flavorful are in. Food and Nutrition Services' new inpatient menu, due April 1, features items not normally associated with hospitals. FNS's Dave Snapp (l), Victoria Franklin and executive chef Phil Stinar drove the change. >>More |
Election season for grant programs The hospital, Cancer Center and university are each seeking grants from LIVESTRONG, the organization formed by cyclist Lance Armstrong to serve cancer survivors. But the grant-funding decisions will come down to a vote of the people. >>More |
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Palliative care seeks a rare step up Referrals to the hospital's Palliative Care Consult Service have more than quadrupled since 2005. The next step: join just five other hospitals that have earned the Joint Commission's new advanced palliative care certification. It would put the hospital in the vanguard of a fast-growing specialty that cares for patients battling life-threatening illnesses, says Palliative Care Consult Service Director Jeanie Youngwerth, MD (above). >>More |
Learning teamwork in a me industry. A new critical care course at UCH brings physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists together to learn from one another. It happens too infrequently in the individually oriented health care world, says anesthesiologist and intensivist Jason Brainard, MD (right), one of the course's developers. >>More |
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Seven shattering seconds In This Hospital Life: In little more than the blink of an eye, a bike accident last November changed Ben Meyerhoff's life forever. The longtime UCH staffer tells of an injury that now confines him to a wheelchair, offers his profound thanks to the many who helped him, and remains determined to do everything he can to rebound from the devastating accident. Above: Meyerhoff and his three children. Plus: "What You Read." >>More |
Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Magnet creations (right); singing the praises of Nightingale nurses; emphasizing exercise; more. >>More |
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Titanic gene, gigantic challenge Adult Medical Genetics Clinic Director Matthew Taylor, MD (l), helped shed light on the genetic roots of heart disease. Aided by new technology that has helped researchers sequence a gene giant composed of 280,000 pairs of chemical building blocks, he aims to find the genetic flaws that lead to the disease. >>More |
Sidebar: Clinic growth is in the genes The number of visits to the Adult Medical Genetics Clinic at UCH has increased 400 percent since 2008, thanks to more and better tests and improved technology. Genetic counselors (left to right) Jean Jirikowic, Cari Wells and Darcy Huismann now look at a wide variety of complex medical cases with a suspected genetic component. >>More |
UCH in the News Blowing out smoking havens; twister tales; cutting-edge catatract surgery; more. Mentions: Larry Allen; Virginia Borges; Harri Brackett; Dana Dabalea; Richard Davidson; John Hokanson; Karl Lewis; Wells Messersmith; Jason Person; William Robinson; Pepper Schedin; David Turnquist; Jeanie Youngwerth. >>More
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Dean Krugman's news The latest at the School of Medicine. >>More
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2012 Gets off to a Good Budget Start | The hospital ended January on a pleasingly familiar note: surging patient volumes and above-budget revenues.
Staff also performed a record number
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Good Things for the Valley | | When the small southern Colorado town of San Luis faced an E. coli breakout late last month, UCH pitched in with an emergency shipment of hand-sanitizing supplies. Above: organizations also sent pallets of clean water to the beleaguered community. >>Go |
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How do you spell relief?
Docs to Get a Shorter Path to Writing Letters | | It sometimes takes a whopping 57 clicks through Epic to write a letter to a professional peer. A process-improvement effort aims to cut it to as few as five. >>Go |
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Hand Hygiene Takes the
Right Touch | | With iPod Touch devices and an application called, appropriately, iScrub, the hospital has dramatically increased the number of hand-hygiene observations and handwashing compliance on inpatient units. >>Go |
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Trial Aims to Tame Stubbornly High Blood Pressure | |
UCH is one of 60 sites nationwide involved in a study of a minimally invasive device (above) that treats hypertension
that medication fails to control. >>Go
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