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 UCH Insider says goodbye -- and hello to a new era
In "This Hospital Life": With this, its 200th issue, the UCH Insider ends its eight-year run. Up next: the UCHealth Insider, a single publication presenting news from across all three regions. Plus: "What You Read." >>More
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CeDAR meets "Sex in the City"
In this month's "Campus Diary": Heather Dines of CeDAR (right) doesn't see the resemblance she's been told she bears to a certain star from a soapy series. Plus: With one UCH-er, the "Ts" have it; UCH patient's ovarian cancer fight proves a stroke of genius. >>More
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 DocLine aims to clear the lines for patient transfers With a new executive physician director, Richard Zane, MD (left), and a modernized phone system, UCHealth is solidifying DocLine, the access service for external and internal referring physicians. "We've made tremendous strides," Zane says of DocLine, "But we're not where we need to be." >>More
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Easing the pain burden for PCPs
Patients prescribed an avalanche of narcotic painkillers for chronic pain has heavily burdened primary care physicians, most of whom have little or no training in managing pain. An initiative led by the Family Medicine Department at CU has developed new tools to help PCPs at UCH help patients manage their pain safely and reduce the risk of addiction and overdose.
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 "Car2Go": one small response to cars to come
The tiny vehicle in front of the Leprino Building (left) and several others situated around the Anschutz Medical Campus are from Car2Go, a company offering short-term transportation for people who need a vehicle quickly. They're one small part of an ongoing search for ways to reduce the ever-growing congestion on campus and the roads leading to it. >>More
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Work on artificial pancreas pumps along Years of effort to develop the mechanisms to take over the pancreas's job of regulating blood glucose and insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes are beginning to pay off. Researchers from the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, including Robert Slover, MD (near right), and David Maahs, MD, have contributed to the work, which could radically improve the lives of people with the disease. >>More
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 New grads settle in
Seven months into their new grad nurse residency programs at UCH, Maggie O'Connor, RN (far left), and Sarah Doble, RN, don't consider themselves old hands. But they've finished their orientations and say they have grown more comfortable in taking the reins of patient care. Third in a series. >>More
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Around UCH
Our round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: Heart Failure Program rocks the Joint; the U flips off the flu; Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit rolls into Vegas (right); SAW grads celebrate; more. >>More
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 UCH in the News
Retiring older drivers; fall-out from exploding drug prices; scrutinizing statins for seniors; more. Mentions: Marian Betz; Peter Chase; Will Cook; Robert Eckel; Joaquin Gallegos; Thomas Jansson; Gina Moore; Manny Rodriguez; Richard Zane. >>More
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News, views, and other good stuff about the hospital and UCHealth. Up now: Peyton Manning/UCHealth "Game Changer video (right). >>More
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Dean Reilly's news The latest about what's going on at the School of Medicine -- from the new dean. >>More
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With New Center, Hospital Seeks Rarified Air
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On Oct. 1, UCH officially launches the Center for Lungs and Breathing (CLB), an ambitious effort to integrate Pulmonology and many other specialties in the service of comprehensive patient care. Plus: Watch video from UCH showing the CLB's benefits to patients. >>Go
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UCHealth Labs Cook up Big Computer Change
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One tick after midnight on Oct. 11, the clinical labs at UCH and Memorial Hospital will go live on Beaker, an Epic application that replaces Cerner. The change promises greater efficiency and patient safety. Poudre Valley Hospital and Medical Center of the Rockies will follow in November. Above: a new wireless "Rover" system will be used by ancillary health techs to speed collection of blood specimens. >>Go
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UCHealth Takes Sepsis Fight to Med-Surg Units
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Sepsis, an often deadly systemic inflammatory response to infection, is damaging, frequently deadly, and very expensive to treat. UCHealth sepsis coordinators, including UCH's Nicole Huntley (above, left, with critical-care specialist Shannon Johnson-Bortolotto) have launched an effort to raise awareness on medical-surgical units of the often subtle signs of sepsis. >>Go
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Group Beefs up for Battle against Malnutrition
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Robin Saucier (above left), manager of Clinical Nutrition at UCH and Burn/Trauma surgeon Arek Wiktor, MD (right), have joined forces to ensure UCH provides inpatients with a frequently overlooked form of therapy: getting the proper nourishment. The two co-chair the recently formed Interprofessional Nutrition Council. >>Go
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Masters of Mentoring, 3Q
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Profiles of a dozen providers recognized in the third quarter for helping new employees and those new to UCH learn the hospital's ropes. Above: Ian Catangay, RN, of the Internal Medicine Unit, is one of the nurses honored. >>Go
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