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Board retains retirement plan The hospital will stick with its generous "defined benefit" plan, but with modifications for employees hired Sept. 1 or after. Poudre Valley employees will be covered by the same plan starting in 2013; Memorial Health will join it Oct. 1, pending voter approval of the UCHealth lease Aug. 28. >>More |
Memorial emerges from the ashes The two-hospital system in Colorado Springs closed its incident command center July 3, but not before five employees lost their homes to the devastating Waldo Canyon fire. Six more found their residences too damaged to occupy, and some 800 overall were affected. But despite the pressures, the system avoided higher-level staffing and patient-surge status. UCH, UCHealth and Children's Hospital Colorado also chipped in during the crisis. >>More |
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Stroke survivor offers thanks Rick Hamilton was thousands of feet in the air when he suffered a stroke last Halloween. With help from a fast-acting team at UCH, he lived to tell the tale. Last week, he returned to UCH to express his gratitude. Hamilton (far left), chats with physicians (from left) Matt West, David Kumpe and Robert Neumann, all of whom played a role in his care. >>More |
Smart shopping at the Wellness Center The Anschutz Health and Wellness Center's King Soopers Grocery Lab combines a simple goal - teaching us to buy healthier groceries - with an ambitious vision of wellness on all fronts. "I believed in it so much, I felt that if we built it, they would come," says the center's executive director James O. Hill (right) of the well-stocked lab. >>More |
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A rush to medical homes Patient centered medical homes have gone mainstream, and no fewer than eight UCH primary care practices are working toward earning the national badge of being one. The goal: help patients get healthier while lowering their health care bills. Assistant Medical Director Carol Odell (far left) and Medical Director Barbara Kelly, MD, help lead the charge at AF Williams Family Medicine in Stapleton. >>More |
Calculating the cost of care In This Hospital Life: The young man found dead in his room had an enlarged heart, clogged arteries -- and no health insurance. We can count the trillions it costs to deliver care, but can we place a value on a life cut short? Plus: "What You Read." >>More |
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A school with a heart You'd rather not have to attend the hospital's Heart Failure University. But for those battling the chronic condition, the five-class course offers valuable instruction and resources aimed at preventing readmissions. A new session starts up Aug. 1, reports course designer Theresa Heyborne (left) of the Heart Failure Service, who displays some of the simple but effective tools for managing heart failure. >>More |
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Sidebar: HFU's grateful grad Forty-three-year old Tyler Graber didn't think much about heart failure until a racing heart and shortness of breath led to a diagnosis that brought him to the brink of death in 2011. He's managing the disease today with the help of UCH 's providers and the innovative Heart Failure University. >>More |
The singing clinicians In this edition of Campus Diary: The hospital may not be the most noteworthy place around, but physician Heather Ene (right) and massage therapist Heather Gunnerson are liable to break out in song at any time. Also: cyberchondria; an East Coast transplant adjusts to western-style friendliness; more. >>More |
Around UCH Goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital: Meyerhoff's perfect pitch (right); 16th Ave. becomes the road not traveled; brand-new stuff at DocStore; more... >>More
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Strictly classified Looking to buy or sell or locate services or merchandise? Try our new classified ad and guide to campus services section, University Health Marketplace. >>More |
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Dean Krugman's news The latest at the School of Medicine. >>More
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Light Rail Inches Closer
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RTD's board is scheduled to vote July 24 on a surprise bid to complete the long-stalled I-225 "FasTracks" light rail extension by November 2015. The project would include two stops near the Anschutz Medical Campus -- a key, supporters say, to relieving campus traffic and parking congestion. >>Go |
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First in the City, First in the State. First in the U.S. | | The popular U.S. News Best Hospital Report, released this week, ranks UCH the best hospital in the metro area and in Colorado. The report also placed the hospital among the top 50 nationally in five specialties, including #1 in pulmonary. >>Go |
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UCH, Children's Bid for Steady Diet of Interns | | A late June site visit has the two hospitals on track to become the only accredited dietetic internship sites in the Denver area next year. >>Go |
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Foam Finishes First in Robotic Surgery Project | | The patient improvement project sought the best way to protect patients from injury during long periods spent in a torturous position known as the steep Trendlenberg (above). The answer: high-density foam. >>Go |
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UCH in the News | Soccer star's doping defense; honorable discharges; brain surgery through a straw; more. Mentions: Michelle Barron; Eric Coleman; Fred Hirsch; Michael McDermott; Ben Meyerhoff; Robert Neumann; Sourav Poddar; Vijay Ramakrishnan; Bruce Schroffel; Allen Waziri; Alexander Wiseman; Philip Zeitner. >>Go
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