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A first: UCH tops in quality, twice in a row UCH again earned the top quality ranking from University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), the organization of more than 100 academic medical centers. Bruce Schroffel, John Harney and the hospital's quality team accepted the award in Orlando Thursday, making UCH the first ever to take the prestigious prize two years in a row. >>More |
And Supply Chain continues to climb UCH also finished #3 in in the nation in UHC's supply chain rankings, an indicator of its tough efforts to control costs while maintaining safe and effective patient care. Pictured: some of the team that made it happen. Left to right: Kamy Leeret, Ken Ferretti, Derek Rushing, Glenn Schmidt, Nancy Stolpman and Diane Haney. >>More |
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UC Health to Memorial employees: welcome aboard, tighten seatbelts
A week after voters in Colorado Springs overwhelmingly approved leasing city-owned Memorial Health System to UC Health, CEO Bruce Schroffel met with hundreds of Memorial employees at an open forum. "There will be lumps and bumps" during the transition, Schroffel told them. But, he added, "there is opportunity for Memorial to help create something new." UC Health takes over operations at Memorial Oct. 1. >>More |
Lawson launch a key step in system building Dozens of power users from UCH and Poudre Valley Health System are quietly preparing to launch Lawson applications for HR, payroll, supply chain and other business functions at PVHS around the first of the year. It's one of the important efforts in melding UCH and PVHS into the evolving business entity called University of Colorado Health, say Peggy Dalious (near right) and Sanford Barton, director and project manager, respectively, for Lawson/ERP applications. >>More |
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Stupid science of the month. In this month's "Campus Diary": CeDAR leaders weigh a study's conclusion that heavy drinking could increase the risk of unemployment, and say, "Duh!". Plus: Pat and Lynn Conroy play the UCH Newlywed Game; a Jodie Foster look-alike at UCH; nanny-state signs in the Leprino bathrooms; more. >>More |
Tightening pre-op paperwork Spotty pre-op orders, histories and physicals and other required documentation have led to delays in the ORs and increased the risk of medical errors. A key culprit, says outpatient pre-op charge nurse Nikki Bach, RN (right), is a gap in Epic training for physicians. Bach and a team of nurses and physicians have new standards, set to begin this month, for timely entry of orders in the electronic medical record. >>More |
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Charting a course at the School of Medicine In "This Hospital Life": Looking to a future fraught with economic and funding uncertainty, the School of Medicine has embarked on exhaustive rounds of strategic planning that put everything on the table for review. "The future promises to be a big challenge," says Dean Richard Krugman, MD (left), as the school discusses how best to meet its core missions. "Complacency is not an option." Plus: "What You Read." >>More |
Patient Sat scores on 7 improve Nurses and CNAs on 7 East Internal Medicine and 7 West Neurosciences found ways to improve patient satisfaction scores that they weren't satisfied with. The keys: consistency and teamwork. Right: 7 West Charge Nurse Valerie Christenson helped organize the improvement effort on her unit. >>More |
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Epic team faces a privacy puzzle at CeDAR In implementing the electronic medical record at the Center for Addiction, Dependency and Rehabilitation (CeDAR), the Epic team found a challenge in balancing the EMR's transparency with extra privacy requirements for patients who seek or receive addiction services. >>More |
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August three-peat for CVC The hospital's Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit received its fifth straight national certification late last month. It was the third Cardiac & Vascular Center unit in August to earn certification or accreditation, an increasingly valuable business affirmation of clinical quality. Jennifer Holder, far left, with fellow exercise physiologist Jasper Evans (near left) and nurse Donna Starcher, helped Cardiac Rehab earn certification from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. >>More |
Expertise, compassion mark President's Award winners They beefed up nutrition for surgical weight-loss patients, gussied up the Discharge Lounge, streamlined business practices in the ORs, shaved their locks for cancer patients and much more. Meet the winners of six President's awards for the final trimester of fiscal 2012. >>More
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Campus classifieds More services, products to buy or sell. Also: nearby dining and lodging. Try our new classified ad and guide to campus services section, University Health Marketplace. >>More |
Around UCH Our regular roundup of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: saving the males, taking the cure, bidding for CeDAR and growing the future. Plus: a cutting-edge choice for the Lone Tree Surgery Center. >>More
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Dean Krugman's news The latest from the School of Medicine. >>More |
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Cancer Center Earns NCI Designation | |
Hundreds of hours of staff time, piles of paperwork, and a site visit by a horde of surveyors later, the University of Colorado Cancer Center earned designation from the National Cancer Institute as the only Comprehensive Cancer Center in the region. The spoils: wider reputation for providing the most complete cancer care available, $18 million in research funding over the next five years, and a boost to recruiting top faculty. >>Go |
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Flu shots for all
Employee Health Gears up Clinics for Flu Season | |
With shots mandatory for all employees, the hospital will offer free vaccination clinics and traveling carts on at least nine days, starting Oct. 22, as well as traveling clinics to handle what it anticipates will be heavy demand. >>Go |
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Painful Flu Myths | | Michelle Barron, MD, medical director for Infection Control (above), reviews the most common fables about the flu and flu vaccine. >>Go |
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Sharpening Skills at SAW | | The third round of the hospital's School at Work program (SAW) produced a graduating class of 11 staffers, many of whom are now eager to continue their educations. Inside: profiles of two SAW grads who last stepped in a classroom during the disco era. >>Go |
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UCH in the News | Testosterone blocker wins FDA day; cancer and pregnancy; docs on drugs; more. Mentions: Virginia Borges; Lori Crane; E. David Crawford; Tobias Eckle; Daniel Hyman; Cynthia Ju; Lilly Marks; Steven Millette; Rulon Stacey; Alexander Tran; Timothy Vollmer; Paul Wischmeyer. >>Go
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A New Marketing Organ for Transplant | New patient communication materials provide valuable information about the solid-organ transplanation process at UCH.
See the "Media, Marketing, Bits of Business" blog (accessible exclusively on Hub, UCH's intranet). >>Go
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