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What Do You Do With a Seven-Ton Magnet?
When you’re moving something huge, like a seven-ton magnet for an MRI machine, you can’t exactly take the elevator. This fall when workers installed the MRI magnet on the fifth floor of the new Center...
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A Low-tech Solution to Keep Immunosuppressed Patients Safe
A simple ball gives doctors and nurses a quick view of the air pressure flow in an isolation rooms See the little green ball in the picture above? That gives doctors and nurses a quick view of which...
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Exactly How Do You Collect 12,000 Microbial Samples From a Hospital?
Last month I wrote about the Hospital Microbiome project, Jack Gilbert’s ambitious project to catalog the bacterial species growing in the hospital before it opens and monitor how that environment...
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Skype for Surgery: Videoconferencing System Bridges the Best Minds in Medicine
Visitors see some of the video system in action during a tour of the robotic surgery suite The University of Chicago Medicine’s new state-of-the-art hospital is built for collaboration thanks to its...
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Meet Your Roommates at Our New Hospital
The first patients at our new Center for Care and Discovery will move in on February 23, but they’ll have some roommates already. At the PLOS Public Health Perspectives blog, Beth Skwarecki writes...
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The Science of the Supply Room
The kanban system implementation in our emergency department in Mitchell Hospital In the 1980s, facing intense competition from Japan, U.S. automotive manufacturers began to adopt many of the...
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Patients Officially Moved in to the Center for Care and Discovery
Patient Linda Burnam is all smiles are moving in to her new digs at the Center for Care and Discovery Back in November we told you about the delicate process of moving a 7-ton magnet into our new...
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Bacteria Before and After: Mapping the Microbiome of a New Hospital
Jack Gilbert giving a presentation at the Center for Care and Discovery Symposium on November 10 In February we’ll open the doors of the Center for Care and Discovery to hundreds of patients, medical...
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What’s in a Name? Introducing the Center for Care and Discovery
University of Chicago Medical Center President Sharon O’Keefe announces the Center for Care and Discovery For years, we’ve been calling it simply the “New Hospital Pavilion.” The massive facility...
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Chicago Ideas Week at the Forefront of Neuroscience
Last Friday we hosted our first Chicago Ideas Week event, one of the first opportunities for the public to take a look at the new Center for Care and Discovery. Held in the beautiful seventh floor Sky...
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