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Volume 5 | Issue 21| Through May 8, 2012
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Antoine Du Chez Mothers Day    
Fitzsimons Golf     
 
Help Wanted Sign
Hospital job openings widen The 215 unfilled positions -- many of them in tough to fill areas -- are the most HR has seen in at least 18 months. The hospital hopes to fill many of the holes with an incentive program for its best job recruiters: current employees.   >>More
8 West
8 West breaks the 2 p.m. barrier The high-volume, high-turnover Orthopedics/Burn/Surgery Unit easily beat the hospital's discharge-before-2 p.m. goal for two consecutive months. The key: daily interdisciplinary meetings with everyone from physicians and nurses to physical therapists and financial counselors.   >>More
 
Phishing
UCH attacked from beyond Nearly every day now, the hospital is under attack from malicious "phishing" emails aimed at stealing sensitive information from individuals and the organization. Inside, Information Services shows how to avoid taking the bait.   >>More
information operators
Waiting for a call from you On a routine day, they handle 500 calls, many of them in 22 seconds or less. They deal with rude docs, irate patients, emergencies and all manner of quirky questions. Welcome to Switchboard Services, where it's always call waiting. Right: some of the voices of the hospital. >>More
 
Switchboard
Smooth operators, thick skins  In This Hospital Life. Answering the phone -- how hard can it be? A little tougher than it looks, it turns out. Plus: "What You Read."    >>More
Getting to the root of the pain Responding to an explosion in the number of narcotic painkillers prescribed for patients with chronic pain, the hospital's Lowry Internal Medicine Practice last fall launched a new clinic aimed at helping to decrease reliance on opioids like OxyContin and Vicodin.  >>More
 
Marge Frueh
Transplant's Civil War connection In this month's Campus Diary: Transplant Administration Director Marge Frueh (left) returns with her husband to the days of the blue and the gray. Also: the healthful aspects of magic mushrooms; another acronym battle; a face-off with a surgeon and more. >>More
Neil Brown and Sullivan
A cast of thousands (of years) The hospital's annual Milestones and Retirees Luncheon honored employees with a combined 2,640 years of service. And that doesn't count those who retired in 2011. Neil Brown (near right) and Connie Sullivan, RN, with President and CEO John Harney, each have put in 40 years. >>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. This issue: the rising success of reducing falls.  >>More
Top 100
Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: cracking Fortune's top 100; farewell, Touchworks; mom-daughter talk; more. >>More
 

Moving stories In this edition of the Media, Marketing, Bits of Business blog: Parkinson's disease patients share their triumphs; wellness event hits a peak; more. (Available exclusively to readers with acess to Hub, the hospital's intranet site.)  >>More
Dean Krugman's news The latest at the School of Medicine. >>More
Fitz Credit Union March 2012
YouTube
Showtime at UCH
It's the second most popular Web site on the planet, but for many UCH employees, accessing it from work computers has been only a remote possibility. Until today. >>Go
Omer-mei dan
An Ortho Doc At The Extreme
Like jumping out of hot air balloons and plunging off cliffs? How about dangling from a helicopter before parachuting to the ground? Meet new Sports Medicine arrival Omer Mei-Dan, MD (above).  >>Go
Anne Badolato 
A Decade-Old Pipeline for Nursing

The hospital's well-regarded Nurse Residency Program turns 10 next month. It's helped educate hundreds of nurses like the SICU's Anne Badolato (above) and provided the hospital with a stable, reliable labor supply. >>Go
 

Shining a Light on Radiation Risk   

Which is riskier: X-rays from an abdominal CT scan or riding a bicycle? A "Smartcard" from the Department of Radiology has the answers. >>Go

 

UCH in the News
Milk thistle cows cancer; risk for Warren Buffet; a dizzying discovery; more. Mentions: Gagan Deep; Thomas Flaig; Carol Foster; Joan Hart; Tai Lockspeiser; Roberta Pelanda; Timothy Vollmer. >>Go