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U.S. News: UCH tops in Colorado again
U.S. News and World Report has ranked UCH as the best hospital in Colorado for the second-straight year. The 2013-2014 edition of the U.S. News Best Hospitals report also listed five UCH specialties among the best in the United States and nine other specialties as "high performing." >>More
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Employee opinions are in
Nearly 11,300 UCHealth employees responded to the system's inaugural Employee Engagement Survey, the system-wide 84 percent response rate topping the goal of 80 percent. That means not only a stronger data foundation from which to improve, but also a whole lot of pizza. >>More
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Big additions, busy times for Facilities Management You think keeping up with your house is a challenge. Try adding 743,000 square feet of inpatient pavilion. The 60-person Facilities Management team has been running full-tilt to keep up with demands associated with the new AIP 2 -- not to mention the new sidewalks, lawns, gardens, parking structures and, indeed, the existing hospital complex. >>More
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Sidebar: Two hours with Bob
Bob Eastridge goes horizontal on the Garden View Café floor to sleuth out the source of a spill. He debugs and recodes the building automation system to cool down an overheating MRI machine. He fixes a shower head. Eastridge is a senior maintenance mechanic at UCH, and to tail him is to understand just how busy Facilities Management is. >>More
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Meet the recruiters They hired 1,400 people across UCHealth last year alone. But who are these people bringing in all these people? A random sampling shows their resumes to be as diverse as those they sift through every day. >>More
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Summer reads at UCH
You'd think we wouldn't have time for books. But indeed we read. Who's paging through (or listening to) The Stand? Darwin's Ghosts? Atlas Shrugged? Oncologist Michael Glodé, MD; Manager of Regulatory Affairs Kristin Stocker; neurologist Steven Ringel, MD; and Business System Analyst Laurie Mooney share their summer reading lists. >>More
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Gesundheit! In "This Hospital Life": It's tough to get one's head around "Obamacare," as the Affordable Care Act is often called, with all its talk of medical loss ratios, grandfathered health plans, co-op insurance plans, lifetime and annual limits and so on. So the Insider decided to learn a bit about an entirely different health care system. >>More
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Around UCH
Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: remembering July 20, 2012 (left); UCH Week at the Wellness Center, one seriously rapt raptor; saving RMLEI trees; "Guinea Pig Club"; >>More
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Check us out on Facebook The latest happenings at UCH are on our Facebook page. >>More |
Dean Krugman's news Get the scoop on happenings at the School of Medicine. >>More |
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Budgeting amid complexity
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The AIP 2 boosts revenues, true. But costs, too. Add health care reform and ongoing expansions into the mix and this fiscal year's budget attempts balance amid a complex landscape indeed. >>Go
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Mission, Vision, Values, and T-shirts
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The University of Colorado Health System's new mission, vision and values statements were months in the making and involved a cast of hundreds. But they're short and sweet -- and on the 16,000 T-shirts, quite fashionable, too. >>Go
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How we doin'?
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The latest Scoreboard results are in -- the financial and quality performance yardsticks on which those employee incentive bonuses depend. How satisfied are our patients? How well do we manage the books? How well do we work together? >>Go
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Eye center expansion: outward and upward
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The rapidly growing clinic -- the hospital's biggest generator of outpatient visits -- broke ground last week on a massive build-out of the RMLEI building that will add nearly 50,000 square feet of new space in the first phase alone. Above: artist's rendering of the completed renovation. >>Go
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UCH in the News
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Weight-loss myths debunked; painkiller overdoses among women; predicting surgical success; cooking up patient satisfaction. Mentions: Osvaldo Cabral, John Corboy, Becky Davis, Victoria Franklin, Kim Gorman, James Hill, Richard Johnson, Daniel Matlock, Gina Moore, Vikas Patel, Thomas Robinson, Diane Skiba, Richard Spritz.
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