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Performance bonus: within reach, but work to do Through the first two quarters of fiscal year 2014, UCHealth employees are on track to receive a performance incentive payout. But improvements are needed in key areas. >>More |
UCH Hep C pioneer hails "breakthrough drugs" They are staggeringly expensive, but Gregory Everson, MD (right), says new, recently approved drugs are yielding unheard-of cure rates of 90 percent and higher for patients with hepatitis C. >>More |
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Sidebar: A life interrupted by a virus Mosezella White (left) isn't sure how she contracted hepatitis C, but it shortened her career and battered her physically and emotionally. After a clinical trial at UCH, she's virus-free after a decade of illness. >>More |
ICD-10 arrives The new (to the U.S., anyway) diagnosis and procedure classification system arrives at UCHealth April 1. For six months, hospitals will dual-code ICD-10 and ICD-9, which goes away for good Oct. 1. Online training began this week. >>More |
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From routine to painful UCHealth is finding the once-routine dealings with payers over managed care contracts have changed since the Affordable Care Act, and sometimes in a more contentious direction. >>More |
Eye Center finds talent close to home A trio of individuals previously with UCH contractors have joined the Eye Center's team, bolstering patient service. Ron Neal (near right) with Eye Center Director Loretta Todaro, moved from patrolling the hospital's parking lots to transporting patients. >>More |
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CeDAR Exec: Pot Proponents Blowing Smoke In This Hospital Life: the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado may have some people on cloud nine, but CeDAR Executive Director Steve Millette fears it will fuel an unwanted growth industry. Plus: "What You Read." >>More |
Weight loss: as much mind as matter? Some people fail to lose weight even after exercising regularly. UCH Endocrinologist Marc-Andre Cornier, MD is exploring why. >>More |
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Around UCH Goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: an emergency exercise in the NICU; top nursing teachers, including CT ICU's Bob Devereaux, RN (left); spotlight on social work; Schroffel ensconced; more. >>More |
Dean Krugman's news The latest on what's going on at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. >> More |
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CEO Search Starts To Yield Results |
A nationwide search for a new president and CEO to lead UCHealth has produced top-flight contenders, says Search Committee chair Chris Osborn (above). If all goes according to plan, a new leader will take the helm this summer. >>More |
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UCH Solidifies South Metro Foothold |
The recently opened Lone Tree Breast Center expands UCH's range of services in the metro area's southern corridor. Above: mammographer Candace Drew with the center's tomography unit, which provides advanced 3-D breast imaging for all patients. >>Go |
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An MD on the Edge |
UCH Sports Medicine surgeon Omer Mei-Dan, MD, is blending his medical expertise and extreme-sports experience in the Fox Sports series "Cutting Edge MD," which debuted this month. >>Go |
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DBS Stabilizes Patient's Shaken Life |
Eric Rinehold struggled for 20 years with the debilitating symptoms of essential tremor. His life has steadied, thanks to two deep brain stimulation procedures at UCH. Above: Rinehold show steady hands to neurology nurse practitioner Christen Epstein. >>Go |
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Into Africa: An MD's Life-Altering Mission |
In this month's "Provider Portrait": UCH sinus surgeon Todd Kingdom, MD (above, center) says last fall's teaching trip to Kenya turned into his own learning experience. >>Go |
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UCH in the News |
Knocking out concussions; ballooning up to lose weight; buying retail medicine; more. Mentions: Dawn Comstock; Jordan Mann; Robert McGranaghan; Paige Patterson; Tom Purcell; Dan Robinson; Robert Valuck; Andrew Winkler; Ban Wong; Holly Wyatt. >>Go |
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