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Bonus! The UCHealth Board of Directors Tuesday approved the first-ever system-wide employee performance incentive payout for meeting financial, quality and service excellence goals. Thanks to their hard work in fiscal 2013, more than 12,000 employees will share some $17 million. >>More
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In together, out together After two years of stunningly rapid progress in inventing a new system in a changing health care age, UCHealth's leaders moved to combine the separate CEO and president positions. A national search for a new leader will begin soon. Left: Stacey and Schroffel signing JOA that created UCHealth in January 2012. >>More |
Neff to take the helm UCHealth Chief Medical Officer Bill Neff, MD (right), will serve as the system's interim president and CEO beginning Oct. 1. Neff says the system's core value, patients first, will be his guiding light. >>More |
Sidebar: "A diplomat and an ambassador" Bill Neff's longtime colleagues at UCHealth North praise his clinical skill, his commitment to quality and his calm in the eye of many health care storms. >>More |
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Adaptation in the ED Its waiting room is empty, but the ED is busier and seeing more patients than ever. Life for staff has changed dramatically since the April move ot the new space. "It's a different set of stressors that staff are experiencing," says Emergency/Trauma Services Director Rob Leeret. >>More |
Operating-room service The innovative Food and Nutrition Services Department has opened a breakfast and lunch service in the new OR lounge to save time for busy staff. Next up: ditching plate-covering domes to reduce waste and save money. >>More |
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Prying open doors for PT patients A pilot project aims to change hospital bylaws to allow some patients to see physical therapists without a physician referral. Project leaders Geoff Klein and Kelly Albers (left) say direct access could streamline care and reduce costs, but much groundwork remains. >>More |
Olympic training for non-Olympians The Anschutz Health and Wellness Center's Sports Performance Program uses serious science developed by director I�igo San Mill�n to help even non-elite athletes achieve remarkable improvements. The secret: get the lactate out. Right: Professional Research Assistant Kevin Nicol works the numbers with a client. >>More
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The finer points of blood draws, EKGs The hospital's WELLS Center is drawing full houses for a workshop that gives professional research assistants and other health care workers basic training in taking blood and placing EKG leads. It's a key to ensuring patient safety, says Allen Wentworth, who directs the program. Ancillary Health Tech Supervisor Joseph Jazinski, left, teaches the fine points of needle sticks. >>More |
Past meets present at 17th and Quentin The Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation's new extended-care residency for women sports contemporary furnishings but retains touches of the structure's 90-year history. "We wanted a place where women in recovery would feel like they were home," says CeDAR Executive Director Steve Millette. >>More |
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Rock around the block (party); food trucks line up; RTD construction promises more 225 snarls; meeting of the sexes for CeDAR, >>More
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Health and Wellness Incentive Kicks In
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Thousands of employees last week received a $150 incentive payment from UCHealth for taking biometric and personal health assessments last spring. All told, the system doled out nearly $1 million. Not surprisingly, it was cause for a healthy celebration (above). >>Go
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A Shot at Systemwide Vaccination Policy |
For a second year, flu shots will be mandatory for all employees, physicians, contractors and others who use UCHealth facilities. Requests for religious and medical exemptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. >>Go |
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IT Self-Serve on Tap |
You won't be calling India for help with your computer issues, but IT will take another step in September toward a fully centralized call center for all system hospials. >>Go |
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Vertigo Fix Brings Dizzying Volumes |
Otolaryngologist Carol Foster thought a do-it-yourself maneuver she developed to help vertigo sufferers would free up clinic time. Think again. >>Go |
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UCH in the News
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Germophobes rule; sniffing out airline food; putting AEDS on the map; more. Mentions: John Backus, Michelle Cardell, Meghan Donnelly, Thomas Finger, Guido Franks, David Fullerton, Fred Grover, John Messenger, Brett Reece, Barbara Reed, Harley Rotbart, I�igo San Mill�n, Comilla Sasson, Suzanne Sortman.
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