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Volume 7 | Issue 24| Through June 10, 2014

 
          
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Performance reviews skirt paper jam Employee performance reviews begin in June. They're still crucial for raises and possible incentive payouts, but the process is now paperless and designed to be easier. >>More
                                             
The six-pack you can't buy In this month's "Campus Diary": Cosmetics Center Medical Assistant Tina Voss (right) is ab-solutely happy with the results of her fitness training. Plus: Clinical Lab's crazy coats; a proud computer geek; our man on the flying trapeze; more. >>More
 
                       
An honor for UCH's microbe fighters The hospital's Infection Control team will be nationally honored next month for their work in containing a potentially deadly outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bacterial strain. >>More
Cancer patient's uncertain journey continues Stage IV lung cancer  patient Carlo Spivey (right, with Infusion Center nurse Molly Harish, RN), was on track to return to his childhood home in Cleveland with his three-year-old son. Then circumstances changed. Part 2 of our series. >>More 
Lacking legs, lending ears 
The psychological devastation of losing a limb has been ranked somewhere between surviving the Holocaust and serving on the front lines of war. The Amputee Support Group at UCH helps patients weather the emotional storms and manage their health. >>More
When the physician becomes the patient
In "This Hospital Life": Three  years ago, a lung cancer diagnosis suddenly put University of New Mexico oncologist Ian Rabinowitz, MD (right), in his patients' shoes. Rabinowitz is fighting back with the help of the Cancer Center's Ross Camidge, MD, and a clinical trial at UCH. He's also learned some valuable lessons about treating patients. Plus: "What You Read." >>More
Around UCH Twister-time at UCH (below); next episode of "Scrubs"; an ACE nurse honoree; "Teams We Treasure"; chip in for the Burn Center golf tourney; more... >>More
                                      
A celebration of "U" The hospital held its first quarterly "Celebrating U" event May 21. The honorees: 13 employees who exemplify UCHealth's "Standards of Excellence." Far right: Katie Walsh, manager of supply chain informatics, receives congratulations from Supply Chain VP Laurie Tuka. Walsh was honored in the "Service" category. >>More 
       
Getting more art into science "Frankenstein," "La Boheme," "Rent," "The Doctor" (left)... All of them are artistic works that help to explain the challenges of science and medicine. Efforts are underway on the Anschutz Medical Campus to weave the arts and humanities into med students' curricula.
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UCH in the news Sippable sunscreen; investigating MD medicare overcharges; a swing at pediatric stroke; more. Mentions: Edwin Jose Asturias; Tim Bernard; Ross Camidge; Meghan Donnelly; Joan Hart; Patricia Huguelet; Therese Jones; Allison Kempe; Marilyn Levi; Theresa Pacheco; Stacy Salomonsen-Sautel. >> More
           
           
                           
ORs Get a Head Start on AIP 2 Build-Out Staffing
Last year, the inpatient ORs had to scramble to staff surgical spaces that opened in the new tower. With four new ORs slated to open next year, nursing leaders and HR recruiters are getting ahead of the game by hiring early. >>More
       
Health and Respiratory Screenings Debut in June
For the first time at UCH, all employees will be required to complete an annual electronic health screen. Also new: required annual N-95 mask fittings for staff in the Respiratory Protection Program. Above: How to fit a mask. >>Go
                                     
  
Rx for Pharmaceutical Waste Disposal
The hospital generates a mountain of pharmaceutical waste every month, hazardous and otherwise. Rounding last week aimed to help staff dispose of it - including nicotine patch wrappers - the right way. >>Go
                         
  
Growing Numbers Turned on by the "Fat Switch"
It's a cellular mechanism so complex that even researchers need a cheat sheet to remind them of how it works. But CU renal disease and hypertension specialist Richard Johnson's explanation for rising obesity rates is gaining an influential group of adherents. >>Go
                                    
  
Drawing Inspiration by Inspiring Others
Respiratory Care Services Manager Scott Reistad (above) calls inspiring others to greatness his "life's mission statement." Mission accomplished: Reistad was recently named "Leader of the Year" by the Colorado Society for Respiratory Care. >>Go
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The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine. >>Go
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