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Jan. 11, 2021

New COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trial opens in Colorado

Aurora, Colo. (Jan 11, 2021) – Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and UCHealth on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus are now recruiting potential study participants for another COVID-19 investigational vaccine clinical trial. This is the third COVID-19 vaccine trial underway at UCHealth locations. The investigational vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, which contains a protein antigen ... Read More

Jan. 8, 2021

UCHealth providing COVID-19 vaccines to people 70 and older; health care system has provided first-shot vaccinations to more than 32,000 people

Aurora, Colo. (Jan. 7, 2021) – UCHealth has now provided the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to more than 32,000 people as well as second doses to an additional 1,000 health care workers. UCHealth began offering vaccines to people age 70 and older last week and continues to vaccinate those in this group as ... Read More

Dec. 17, 2020

UCHealth deploys BioIntelliSense BioButton™ Vaccine Monitoring Solution to health care workers receiving COVID-19 vaccine

Aurora, Colo. (Dec. 17, 2020) – As UCHealth begins administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers today at University of Colorado Hospital on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, some recipients will be wearing the BioIntelliSense BioButton medical device as a foundational step in developing a scalable post-vaccine monitoring program that could ... Read More

Dec. 15, 2020

Colorado’s first COVID-19 vaccine administered to a hospital worker at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital

Fort Collins, Colo. (Dec. 15, 2020) – UCHealth administered the state’s first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a health care worker Monday afternoon at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins. Minutes later, UCHealth Memorial Hospital provided the state’s second COVID-19 vaccine to an emergency department nurse in Colorado Springs. Kevin Londrigan was the ... Read More

Dec. 8, 2020

UCHealth Memorial receives multiple shipments of beds in preparation for possible surge of patients needing to be hospitalized with COVID-19

Colorado Springs, Colo. (Dec. 8, 2020) – UCHealth Memorial Hospital received a shipment of 30 rental ICU beds last week to prepare for a possible increase in patients who are admitted to the hospital and need critical care due to COVID-19. In all, the hospital rented 52 ICU beds in recent weeks for a potential surge ... Read More

Dec. 4, 2020

UCHealth begins treating patients with new antibody drug aimed at keeping high-risk people with COVID-19 out of the hospital

Aurora, Colo. (Dec. 4, 2020) – UCHealth has received a limited supply of a new experimental COVID-19 drug that may lessen the severity of illness in high-risk people, keeping them out of the hospital. UCHealth was allocated nearly 650 doses of the drug – called bamlanivimab – for use at four locations across Colorado. Supplies of ... Read More

Oct. 29, 2020

UCHealth launches second COVID-19 vaccine trial

Loveland, Colo. (Oct. 29, 2020) – UCHealth researchers in northern Colorado are now recruiting participants for a study that will test a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The study, which is the second vaccine trial to launch at UCHealth, will include approximately 1,500 participants ages 18 and older who are at higher risk for exposure due to their ... Read More

Oct. 21, 2020

UCHealth integrates behavioral health experts into primary care clinics, enabling patients to access treatment for mental health needs

Aurora, Colo. (Oct. 20, 2020) – Behavioral health experts are now working hand-in-hand with primary care physicians at about 30 UCHealth primary care clinics across Colorado, providing crucial resources to patients experiencing anxiety, depression or other challenges. The addition of these services is part of a commitment UCHealth made a year ago to invest at ... Read More

Oct. 6, 2020

UCHealth marks 2,000th COVID-19 hospitalized patient to recover, leave hospital

Aurora, Colo. (Oct. 6, 2020) – More than 2,000 patients recovering from COVID-19 have now been discharged from UCHealth hospitals throughout Colorado, able to continue their recoveries either at home or in post-acute care centers. Overall, UCHealth has cared for almost 30% of the state’s patients hospitalized with COVID-19. “We are encouraged seeing these numbers of ... Read More

Sept. 17, 2020

UCHealth presents El Paso County Sheriff’s Office with lifesaving ‘Stop the Bleed’ kits

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 17, 2020) – UCHealth’s Memorial Hospital Foundation and Memorial’s Injury Prevention and Research Institute (MIPRI) presented 175 Stop the Bleed kits this week to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. The kits will ensure deputies in El Paso County – a geographic area nearly double the size of the state of ... Read More

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