DHM SUMMER 2022 NEWSLETTER
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“We are keenly focused on thriving – building thriving teams, patients, and systems. In this edition of our newsletter, you will see that 16 faculty have been promoted to Associate or Professor of Medicine and will learn about novel care models that we have built to serve our community and how we are working to train our future workforce. We are thrilled to have you on this journey with us.” into efforts to cutting newest in division: Service addition to CARE Clinic that will support Oncology Service learning some recent fast facts
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A Message from Marisha #CUDHMWins IN THIS ISSUE DHM StaySummerDailySpotlightConnected 86-75Stay up to date with the latest wins, recognition, and awards within the DHM. 9 Check in on the daily happenings with the DHM that build
Our Division is proud to announce the promotion of 16 faculty this July! We are happy to report 3 promotions to Professor, 10 promotions to Associate Professor, 3 promotions to Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, and one appointment to Professor with Award of Tenure.
5 Division of Hospital Medicine welcomes 4 Health Innovations Scholars Program (HISP) for an intensive training program where medical students can seek to lead innovative transformation of American Healthcare. Learn more about our program here!
ACCOMPLISHMENTS#CUDHM
3 Division of Hospital Medicine and Section of Hospital Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Colorado (CHCO) are awarded Upper Payment Limit Funds to create cohesive care model for patients at University Hospital and CHCO. This novel care model will feature Internal Medicine-Pediatric trained hospitalists serving both hospitals. See details inside. 4Our novel model has helped reduce preventable ED Visits by 50%. Learn more about this novel service led by Kasey Bowden, NP.
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Top 5 Quarterly Accomplishments
Addiction medicine team reaches 1,600+ patients over the past year. Led by Dr. Susan Calcaterra, the team focuses on patient centered addiction medicine care. Check out the our Addiction Medicine service line page.
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These are just 5 of the many accomplishments for this incredible team. Stay tuned for our next newsletter and follow us on Twitter @CUDivHospMed to hear what we are up to next!
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HIGHLIGHTSFACULTY & DHM We’re Growing! Heather Briggs, MD Jess Coulter, MD Tamaryn Fox, MD We want to give a warm welcome to our newest faculty CUDHM team members! Molly Weinberg, MD Amanda Johnson, MD Michelle Knees, DO Jennifer Doran, MD Claire Brickson, MD Clinical Scholar Leela Chockalingam, MD Clinical Scholar Kendal Flegenheimer, MD Clinical Scholar Dagan Hammar, MD Clinical Scholar Kirsten Salline, MD Clinical Scholar Logan McCracken, MD Clinical Scholar Betsy Desmarais, DO Amie Scott, MD Erica Smith, MD Tuong Phan, MD Ashley Takahashi, MD Neha Reddy, MD Jason John, MD Asta Gurklys, PA-C Alix Armstrong, PA-C Matthew Ferraro, PA-C Parisa Mortaji, MD Clinical Scholar 4
June JulyCEPSPublicationsGrantRecipientsErinBredenberg,MD Assistant Professor, Hospital Medicine An Intervention to Expand Hepatitis C Treatment Among Hospitalized Patients with Substance Use Disorders with Linkage to Specialty Addiction Medicine Care at Discharge August Faculty Featured: 20 First Publishers: 4 Faculty Featured: 6 First Publishers: 3 Faculty Featured: 10 First Publishers: 3 WINS#CUDHM Check out our faculty publications! Click here to see a list of the publications. 5 Paul Cannon, PA-C, MPH Instructor, Hospital Medicine Improving Outcomes in Patients with Alcohol-associated Liver Disease (ALD) Admitted to University of Colorado Hospital Non-Hepatology Service Lines Hillary Landau, MD Instructor, Hospital Medicine Duplicate Charts and the Inpatient Contact Move Process 5280’s Top Doctors of 2022 Catherine Callister, MD AddictionUniversityMedicine Caitlin Dietsche, MD InternalUniversityMedicine Congratulations to these #CUDHM providers for being named one of 5280 Magazine‘s Top Docs! In addition, 192 CU Anschutz providers were recognized on the list that was based on someone “whom they would trust to treat themselves or a loved one“. Thank you all for creating a safe environment people can trust! Cason Pierce, MD InternalDenverMedicineHealth Nicholas Scaletta, MD InternalDenverMedicineHealth Julie Taub, MD Addiction Medicine Denver Health
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About Beth Gillespie, MD, FACP
Undergraduate Climate and Health Education
This August, we have 4 students joining us. They’re focusing on sleep and wellness within the hospital setting and how they can better the environment for more efficient, and restful sleep for patients.
Anna Ha University of Colorado School of Medicine
Beth recently finished her Climate and health science policy fellowship through CUSOM. As a fellow, Dr. Gillespie had the opportunity to serve as guest researcher with the CDC’s Climate and health program, which expanded her professional network and opened the door to a number of experiences in education, scholarship, and advocacy detailed below. The fellowship also allowed her to focus more time on certain interests she had for years.
Health Innovations Scholar Program (HISP)
As newly-appointed director of undergraduate medical education (UME) within CU’s Climate and Health Program, Dr. Gillespie will continue to advocate for wider dissemination of planetary health curricula for UME. She had the opportunity to write a blog post for EcoAmerica, and worked with other members of the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Environmental Health Interest group (which Dr. Gillespie founded) to deliver two workshops at Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting in Orlando (4/22): Practical approaches to addressing the educational gap in climate and health (Workshop 1) and The physicians role in clinical practice (Workshop 2). She also is clinical lead for sustainability efforts at Denver Health, playing an active role within Denver Health’s environmental sustainability cohort. She looks forward to her new civic role, having recently (April 2022) been elected to serve on the Science & Research Committee under the Sustainability Advisory Council (SAC) within Denver’s Office of Climate Action Sustainability and Resiliency (CASR). Her recent work and impact has spread across the globe featuring important health education and advocacy/service initiative topics.
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The Health Innovations Scholar Program (HISP) is an intensive training program for medical students who seek to lead innovative transformation of American healthcare. Though advances in science, technology, and models of collaboration promise continued discovery and improvement in human health, the care systems designed to bring benefits to patients do not live up to their potential. Medical school typically does not provide the knowledge or skills necessary to drive reinvention of healthcare systems. Using tools from LEAN, design-thinking, and change management, students analyze the existing workflows, identify targets for improvement, and work with stakeholders to enact changes. These projects each lead to meaningful improvements at the University of Colorado, which were presented to high level stakeholders across the respective departments, and sustainable initiatives to improve care delivery!
Neil Chandnani University of Colorado School of Medicine
Our team continues to see increasing growth of our clinical services. While COVID has contributed, we are seeing sicker and more complex patients. We are fortunate to have incredible hospital partners such as our care management teams and hospital and department leadership to support this important mission area. We are also beginning to plan for our new tower.
Collaboration with UCH
For the 11th year in a row, U.S. News and World Report ranks UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, located on the Anschutz Medical Campus, as the No. 1 hospital in the state of Colorado. “While the effects of the pandemic continue to impact hospitals across the country, these rankings are a testament to the dedication and perseverance of UCHealth’s dedicated staff and clinicians in providing the very best care for our patients,” said Elizabeth B. Concordia, UCHealth president and CEO.
Focus on the parts/stages of care for our patients
In academic year 2021 to 2022, we performed more than 1500 procedures and more than 500 ultrasounds. More than 250 procedures were urgent outpatient procedures which may have otherwise required a hospital admission or ED visit. About 10% (~150) were requests for supervision of primary team learners. Looking forward to 2022, we will be working closely with IR to improve patient care and prevent delays. They plan to implement changes to their Order Wizard, automatically encouraging routing of requests to us, and they plan to train us to perform tunneled line removals to help facilitate these often-urgent procedures. We anticipate this will improve outpatient access to care by allowing IR to schedule more outpatient procedures like tunneled lines, ports, and PleurXs.
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Collaboration with Hospitalists
Henry Kramer, MD
With a new tower underway, our team is planning ahead for more streamlined processes and anticipating new challenges to come.
Working with care management and social care team
This recent partnership with IR is just one of many signs we are earning folks’ trust and building a positive reputation across the Anschutz Medical Campus. Here’s what we’re working on:
Geographic Cohorting - Making sure we have the right staff located in the same place • Units, services to cohort, better processes • Ensuring teaching services are co-located Planning for the New Tower on the Anschutz Medical Campus
Interventional Radiology & Hospital Medicine Collaboration
In the News UCHealth hospitals among best in the state including University of Colorado Hospital at No. 1
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Hospitalist Team is caring for more and more patients!
The CARE clinic aims to improve delivery of cancer care through a proactive and patient-centered approach to complex symptom management and through providing same-day urgent care services tailored to the unique needs of oncology patients. The clinic is staffed by APPs Oncology and Hospital Medicine, representing a first of its kind collaboration between these two divisions. APPs have advanced training in both oncology and internal medicine, which allows patients to receive individualized, patient-centered care.
#CUDHM Service Line Spotlights
We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of a new Med-Peds Consult Service! The overarching goal of the service is to improve the care of the adolescent and young adult population hospitalized at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) and UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH). At UCH, patients under age 18 are admitted with some frequency, as are complex young adult patients with chronic conditions of childhood. For these patients, the Med-Peds Consult Service hopes to provide age and disease-specific recommendations to primary teams and nursing staff, help communicate with outpatient providers and relevant consulting services at CHCO, and facilitate transitions of care.
The service, which will tentatively start on January 3rd, 2023, will be funded by the Medicaid Supplemental Funding Program (UPL) and will be available to consult Monday to Friday during daytime hours. It will be staffed by Med-Peds-trained physicians and will have the ability to consult on both adult patients admitted to CHCO as well as pediatric and young adult patients admitted to UCH during the same business day.
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New CARE Clinic to Support Oncology Service
Looking at What’s to Come
The CARE (Clinical Assessment and Rapid Evaluation) Clinic at the University of Colorado Cancer Center is an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) led clinic that provides intensive symptom-management and urgent care services for solid tumor oncology patients at the University of Colorado Hospital. Oncology patients often experience complex symptoms including pain, fatigue and nausea, often resulting in numerous trips to the emergency department or admissions to the hospital. The goal of the CARE clinic is to provide oncology patients with a cost-effective alternative to the emergency department while undergoing cancer treatment.
Aaron Manning, MD
Med-Peds Service Coming to #CUDHM
Kasey Bowden, NP Medical Director
The Division of Hospital Medicine is currently in the process of building a new tower on the Anschutz Medical Campus. This brand new tower will help support our growing faculty and providers, our care for our patient population and our vision for growth. We are currently looking at a completion date for the Summer of 2023! Please stay up to date with our latest announcements through our marketing efforts.
STAY CONNECTED Announcements Strengthening our Internal Communication We are proud to announce the launch of our new internal intranet for the Division of Hospital Medicine. This intranet will be the onestop-shop for our internal communication. It will house our announcements, initiatives, track important dates and act as a connector for our team. We’re excited to roll this out to our team and better connect our faculty. Upcoming Events Oct 22-23 SHM POCUS Regional Course Click here for more info For social media, newsletter or digital marketing content, please send your submission to Kelsey Hussey, BA at kelsey.hussey@cuanschutz.edu for a chance to be featured! You can also use our hashtag #CUDHM or tag us in your post. A Chance to be Featured Sept 6 Labor Day University@CUDivHospMed@CUDivHospMed@CUDivHospMedofColorado Division of Hospital Medicine # of Writing Sessions: Hospital Medicine Writing Challenge Wrap Up Each year, we hold a Hospital Medicine National Writing Challenge in partnership with Society of Hospital Medicine. The Tyler Anstett – 14,064 Marisha Burden – 9,950 Katarzyna Mastalerz – 9,658 Neha Joshi – 18 Tied: Katarzyna Mastalerz & Molly Horstman – 12 Marisha Burden – 11 Gopi Astik – 8 projects Sonya TG – 6 projects Tied: Molly Horstman & Marisha Burden – 5 different projects 98,179 Total words logged 47 Participants 13 States & two representedcountries 16 Unique Institutions 23 People logged at least one session # of Words Written: # of Different Writing Projects: purpose of this writing challenge is to provide an opportunity to build the daily habit of writing by asking participants to complete a small amount of suggested/required words per day. This years participants included physicians, APPs, and researchers specializing in adult medicine, family medicine, geriatrics, and pediatrics. Their focuses ranged from medical education, quality improvement, research, and clinical operations. See the highlights below! Mark your calendars - the next writing challenge will take place in January 2023. INDIVIDUALS The Quarantinis – 23,204 PedsHM & Friends – 16,591 TJUH Hospital Medicine – 8,826 The Quarantinis – 26 PedsHM & Friends – 25 TJUH Hospital Medicine – 15 The Quarantinis – 9 projects PedsHM & Friends – 6 projects Houston VA Hospitalists – 5 projectsGROUPS 321321
