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Hospital pushes to open new tower sooner With unprecedented patient volume putting ever more pressure on fixed bed capacity, hospital leaders announced plans to open the rapidly rising new inpatient tower, critical care wing and ED five weeks sooner than planned. The first patient beds debut May 6. >>More |
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Longer distances = shorter length of stay The conventional wisdom: General Internal Medicine patients, scattered throughout the hospital, make daily rounds and timely discharge a challenge for physicians. But then hospital leaders saw data showing the teams actually discharged their patients a day earlier than the average for academic medical centers. The result: thousands of bed days and potentially millions of dollars saved. >>More |
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Friends with (employee) benefits They may not be married to their work, but in a work way, they're married to each other. They're "work spouses": couples who count on one another for support and advice -- and warnings that something's stuck in the teeth. Left: the Clinical Lab's Allan Roem and Tina Cline have had a marriage of minds since 1996. >>More |
New center opens doors; hearts, lungs & multispecialists to follow With the debut of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center, UCH aims to become a key referral source for campus providers and community physicians whose patients have a wide variety of complex, difficult to treat lung and heart conditions. Medical Director Todd Bull, MD (right), says the center will involve physicians in many disciplines and integrate clinical care with research and education. >>More |
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Connected to what? In "This Hospital Life": the ubiquitous "smartphone" continues its campus conquest, forging even into previously sacrosanct areas -- like the rest room. We're captivated by the devices, but do they really help us communicate? Plus: "What You Read." >>More |
Another 1 percenter for UCH Research nurse scientist Mary Beth Flynn Makic, RN, PhD (right), this month became the fourth UCH nurse inducted as a fellow of the American Acadmy of Nursing. Only about 1 percent of all nurses in the U.S. make it. Makic has devoted her career to practice and research in the intensive care and trauma settings and to championing nurse-driven clinical projects. >>More |
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Going the extra mile, hitting the right notes 7 East Internal Medicine Unit nurses Andrea Jewell, RN (far left) and David Jimenez, RN (center), recently took to golf carts and iPods to care for their respective patients. For their efforts, they received the DAISY Award for exceptional nursing. >>More |
Physicians catch the entrepreneurial wave There is no shortage of big clinical and technological ideas among physicians, but too often they lack business know-how to take their insights from the drawing board to the bedside. That's changing with the help of physician and entrepreneur Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA (right), a School of Medicine faculty member who recently launched a professional society to help physicians negotiate the often strange worlds of business and marketing. >>More |
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Getting legs under knee replacement patients A new, first-of-its-kind clinical trial at the School of Medicine's Physical Therapy Department compares two approaches to post-operative exercise regimens in patients who have had total knee replacement procedures. The aim: return patients to functional levels of healthy individuals -- and reduce the numbers of readmissions and subsequent procedures. UCH is a patient recruiting site. >>More |
Around UCH Our regular roundup of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Marketing turns over some new leaves; scaring up Boo Bash volunteers; tickled pink at Men for the Cure (right); a really Rad week in November; FNS puts on the dogs; more... >>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 |
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Dean Krugman's news The latest from the School of Medicine. >>More |
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Marketing blog In Media, Marketing, Bits of Business: a billboard in a strategic spot; hospital going mobile. This feature is available exclusively to readers with access to Hub, the hospital's intranet site. >>More |
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for Service Excellence: How Are We Doing? | |
Recent inpatient and outpatient patient satisfaction scores have been much better than some believe, and executive and nurse rounding programs are in place. Now Amy Searls (above) is turning to validating how well the initiatives are working. >>Go |
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Grant Targets ED "Hot Spots" | |
Aurora is one of four U.S. cities to receive a multimillion grant to identify frequent ED and hospital users. The goal: get them more appropriate care and connect them to coordinated community medical, mental health and other support services. The "hot spots" are two Aurora zip codes that, in one year, accounted for nearly 60 percent of all visits by Aurora residents to UCH's ED. >>Go |
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Telemetry Techs Keep the Beat | | From a small "cockpit" on the 10th floor of the AIP, telemetry technicians monitor the heart beats and rhythms of 100 or more patients without ever seeing them. "They're our early-warning system," says nurse manager Maureen Dzialo. >>Go |
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Sidebar: Often Faceless but Hardly Uniform | | The hospital's 15 telemetry techs are a disparate group that performs a vital but under-recognized service for a busy hospital. Above: three techs in the midst of a 12-hour day in the telemetry "cockpit." >>Go |
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UCH in the News | Theater tragedy insights; kids kill the pain; a quick burn for exercisers; more. Mentions: Barbara Block; Ross Camidge; Peter Campanella; Amy Huebschmann; Richard Johnson; Richard Krugman; Edward Melanson; Richard Miech; Elaine Scallan; Tracy Swibas. >>Go
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