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CU Nursing receives $2 million grant to expand health care in rural areas

CU Nursing receives $2 million grant to expand health care in rural areas

The University of Colorado College of Nursing received a $2 million grant to increase the number of midwives in rural areas of Colorado over the next four...
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Anthem enrollees: Move your maintenance and specialty medications soon
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Anthem enrollees: Move your maintenance and specialty medications soon

CVS Caremark manages all prescription medicine coverage for the University of Colorado’s Anthem-administered plans. With the plan year that began July 1, the...
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Take the mystery out of CU health plans with this on-demand course

Take the mystery out of CU health plans with this on-demand course

Employee Services developed an on-demand resource, updated each year, to explain all your options in detail and take the suspense out of making your annual...
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CU experts: Extinguishing smoking stigma, promoting screening can save lives

CU experts: Extinguishing smoking stigma, promoting screening can save lives

Comedian Kathy Griffin’s recently announced lung cancer diagnosis came early and arose from a non-related health screening. A lucky catch, and an...
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Cell and gene therapy manufacturing hub joins growing bioscience community

Cell and gene therapy manufacturing hub joins growing bioscience community

Healthcare innovation took another leap forward at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on Aug. 12 with the groundbreaking of Bioscience 5, a...
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With a treasure trove of data, CU Anschutz gears up to strike gold

With a treasure trove of data, CU Anschutz gears up to strike gold

Staying competitive in the medical field now requires a new type of mining. While there are no hard hats required, extracting data from a vast array of...
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Tragedy strikes Boulder, injecting sadness, fear, anger into an already vulnerable society

Tragedy strikes Boulder, injecting sadness, fear, anger into an already vulnerable society

When a gunman opened fire this week in a grocery store next door to our Boulder sister campus, he added to a string of shootings that has put the state on an...
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CU sponsoring Go Red for Women, an American Heart Association benefit
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CU sponsoring Go Red for Women, an American Heart Association benefit

The University of Colorado is sponsoring 2020 Denver Go Red for Women , a virtual event benefiting the American Heart Association. The digital experience, set...
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For flu season, give yourself a shot at good health
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For flu season, give yourself a shot at good health

The CDC recommends that you and your family members get a flu vaccine in September or October. Because it takes about two weeks for the flu vaccine to provide...
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Home health care clinicians often lack adequate hospital information

Home health care clinicians often lack adequate hospital information

A survey of Colorado home health care clinicians (HHCs) revealed that 60 percent said they had not received enough information to guide patient treatment while...
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How to stop severe bleeding

How to stop severe bleeding

We live in a world where terrorism and the violent actions of unstable individuals are very real and becoming increasingly more frequent and victims can...
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CU Anschutz poised to lead VR's health care integration

CU Anschutz poised to lead VR's health care integration

A nervous heart patient waiting for surgery suddenly finds herself immersed in an ocean of aqua blue. As she slowly treads the warm water, sparkling from the...
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Flu Shot
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Defend your health – and save sick days – at campus flu shot clinics

Now is the time to build a defense against the flu with an annual flu vaccine. Employee Services and Kaiser Permanente make it more convenient, bringing flu...
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ECHO Colorado receives grant renewal

ECHO Colorado receives grant renewal

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is honored to announce a $3.3 million gift in renewal funding from the Colorado Health Foundation (TCHF) in...
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Patient advocates visit campus to promote culture of communication, consent

Patient advocates visit campus to promote culture of communication, consent

On a recent Wednesday afternoon on the Anschutz Medical Campus, students in the Interprofessional Education and Development (IPED) course welcomed some special...
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Deadline to enroll in CU’s Health Savings Account nears
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Deadline to enroll in CU’s Health Savings Account nears

Employees currently enrolled in the University of Colorado’s Health Savings Account must select their 2017 contribution amounts by Dec. 9. If employees do not...
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Future of health care hot topic at Aspen Ideas Festival

Future of health care hot topic at Aspen Ideas Festival

Advances in translational medicine and research. Top-quality clinical care and patient outcomes. Development of talent. All of these unite at academic medical...
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JFK Partners: 50 Years of Service and Success

JFK Partners: 50 years of Service and Success

By the time Tatum was 8 months old, his mother, Janelle, would watch him at playdates with other babies the same age, and know that all was not right with her...
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OE15
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CU health savings account to debut during Open Enrollment

Benefits-eligible CU faculty and staff may enroll in the HSA during CU’s Open Enrollment for contributions to begin July 1 or at any time after that. To...
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New program aims to help at-risk employees prevent diabetes
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New program aims to help at-risk employees prevent diabetes

CU Health Plan – Diabetes Prevention During Open Enrollment, April 27-May 11, you may access this innovative program by enrolling in any CU Health Plan and...
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Free info session precedes next My New Weigh class

Have you tried everything to lose weight, only to regain? Are you ready for a new way? Discover My New Weigh, medically supervised weight management, available...
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Global picture, personal stories in focus at GLBTI Symposium

The Faculty Council GLBTI (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues) Committee’s third annual symposium brought together about 100 faculty, staff and...
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Health Fair offers learning opportunity

Chair massages will be offered at this year’s Health Fair. The 2014 UCCS Health Fair, scheduled for 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 30 at Berger Hall, has many of...
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Five questions for Mark Earnest

From the beginning of his medical career, this professor of general medicine witnessed many inequities in the health care system and has worked to change the...
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Gift to program will improve wellness at work and home

Pinnacol Assurance , Colorado’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, has formed a partnership with the Colorado School of Public Health to...

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