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Volume 8| Issue 11| Through December 16, 2014

 
     
           
 
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UCHealth tells employees to take a hike A base wage increase, that is. The bump to eligible employees totaling some $17.7 million will show up in paychecks Dec. 12. >>More
                                                       
UCH launches lung cancer screening program The November announcement follows CMS's decision to pay for low-dose CT screenings for Medicare recipients at high risk for lung cancer. But UCH leaders say deriving the greatest benefit from the screenings will require careful operational and clinical decision making. >>More
Medicine, faith, and fitness combine in lung cancer fight
Targeted drug therapy from clinical trials at the Cancer Center helped Jon Wilmot (near left with daughter Marlee and wife Leann) battle back from an unexpected stage IV lung cancer diagnosis. But Wilmot also credits a devotion to exercise, his family -- and to a higher power. >>More
              
A colonoscopy alternative? No, the anxiety-inducing procedure isn't going away. But a new DNA test provides another option. Most importantly, it shows great promise in its ability to detect colorectal cancer, the third-deadliest form of the disease. >>More
"Anything for the shot"

In "This Hospital Life": Retiring echocardiography supervisor Doris Peterson (left) devoted the majority of her professional career to mastering ultrasound imaging. Along the way she produced influential three-dimensional images of aortic valves, took echocardiographies of great apes, and never stopped learning and teaching. Plus: "What You Read." >>More

          
Preparing for care at the bottom of the world Providers from the hospital and the School of Medicine provided six days of emergency medical training for a group of marine techs with a challenging work environment -- research vessels sailing to and from Antarctica. Right: techs in the Burn Center used a mannequin to practice delivering emergency care to a burn "victim" with the help of Clinical Nurse Educator Linda Staubli (center). >>More
Around UCH
A round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: flu season arrives (left); get a shot or get suspended, Medical Board tells medical staff; toy story arrives at UCH; new names for gift shops; more. >>More
           
Treasure in Periop, BMT Staff from Pre-op and the PACU (right) and the BMT Department are the latest winners of the hospital's "Teams We Treasure" award. Their secrets? Flexibility, collaboration and communication.  >>More
UCH in the News Calorie countdown; mental health breakdown; hidden heart disease; deadly football; more. Mentions: Michelle Barron; Dawn Comstock; Amy Huebschmann; Gordon Lindberg; Thomas Maddox; Harley Rotbart; Peter Sachs; Linda Staubli; William Vandivier; Richard Zane. >>More
              
Check out our Facebook page News, views, and stories of inspiration on UCH's Facebook page. Give us a like!. >>More

Dean Krugman's news The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine. >>More

           
         
Magnet Four-Peat

Many months of preparation and thousands of pages of documentation paid off as the hospital earned a place among the elite institutions worldwide with a fourth straight Magnet nursing designation. >>Go

                                       
UCHealth Beefs up Patient Bill-Pay Options

The nearly 100,000 UCHealth patients with My Health Connection accounts can now use them to pay hospital and physician bills, update insurance info and more. The aim: greater customer satisfaction and control and more phone time for customer-service staff to answer billing questions. >>Go

                                                  
  
UCH Bundles up to Prevent CLABSIs
With its central line infection rates exceeding benchmarks for academic medical centers, the hospital is renewing its emphasis on prevention bundle checklists and increasing its emphasis on getting to the root causes of infection. >>Go
             
MD's Long Run to Restore Cartilage

CU Sports Medicine orthopedic surgeon Cecilia Pascual-Garrido, MD (above), blends a devotion to long-distance running with research into how stressed joints might regenerate protective cartilage. >>Go

                                       
  
B'Day for Pioneering Renaissance MD

The Health Sciences Library threw a 500th birthday bash for Andreas Vesalius, whose groundbreaking publications in anatomy helped to revolutionize medicine. The gathering also celebrated the library's recent purchase of English translations of Vesalius's work. >>Go

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