Thursday, May 19, 2016 uihealthcare.org Traveling orthopedic surgeons improve rural care Today High: 69 Low: 51 Orthopedic patients living in rural areas are more likely to be older, overweight, and less physically Sunny active, but only 30 percent of rural hospitals are staffed with a full-time orthopedic surgeon, Iowa Now reports. A new study from the UI finds that visiting consultant clinics (VCCs) staffed by visiting Tomorrow High: 71 Low: 48 orthopedic surgeons can improve patient outcomes in rural areas by increasing access to physicians. Partly sunny A nod to Quad: Second-oldest UI residence hall coming down After nearly a century of housing UI students, Quadrangle Residence Hall just saw its last resident pack up and move out, Iowa Now reports. The two-story building, constructed on the west side of campus in 1919–20, will be razed over the summer to make way for a new College of Pharmacy building. The building was originally intended as military barracks in WWI, but before construction was done, the war ended. During WWII, the U.S. Navy rented the dorm for cadets, including Nile Kinnick and John Glenn. New vendors, services at Iowa City Farmers Market The Iowa City Farmers Market is in full swing every Wednesday and Saturday at the Chauncey Swan Parking Ramp and every Tuesday at Mercer Park, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reports. Customers can now pay with credit cards. They go to the information table to buy tokens valued at $5 and $1. Construction stalls on new Hy-Vee near North Liberty A Hy-Vee spokeswoman announced yesterday that construction has halted on the Hy-Vee planned for the southeast corner of Forevergreen and Crosspark roads in Coralville near the border with North Liberty, the Press-Citizen reports. A completion date is not set, but they still plan to move forward with There were construction as they “continue to evaluate the best store format and design that will meet customers’ 935,740 clinic needs in this growing area.” visits in 2015, UNI president leaves for smaller Ohio college which includes University of Northern Iowa President Bill Ruud is leaving after three years to become head of the visits to UI smaller, private Marietta College in Ohio, The Gazette reports. Ruud, 63, will start there July 3. An Hospitals and interim president for UNI will be named at the June meeting of the Iowa Board of Regents. Clinics, outreach, and UI Mitt Romney ends recruiting efforts for an independent candidate Community Republican Mitt Romney won’t launch a third-party presidential campaign of his own and has stopped Medical Services. trying to recruit somebody else to do it, CNN reports. It’s the latest blow to the Never Trump movement. Egypt plane crashes in Mediterranean; terror attack possible An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off of Crete early this morning, The Associated Press (AP) reports. Egypt’s aviation minister said the crash was more likely caused by a terror attack than technical problems. EgyptAir flight 804 made abrupt turns and suddenly lost altitude just before vanishing from radar at around 2:45 a.m. Egyptian time. Study: Mom’s voice works like a charm on your brain Children recognize their mother’s voice in less than one second, and it lights a child’s brain up in areas related to emotion, reward processing, facial recognition, and social functioning, CNN reports. In short, a child’s ability to communicate socially is in a large way affected by how he or she reacts to mom’s voice. Google shows off new products at developer’s conference Google showed off Google Home yesterday, a voice-activated assistant and Amazon Echo competitor, ABC News reports. A new virtual reality platform and a smart messaging app were also revealed. Snoop Dogg, ex-NBA player Peterson host game to help Flint Snoop Dogg and former Toronto Raptors player Morris Peterson are hosting a celebrity basketball game, “Hoop 4 Water,” on Saturday to help Flint amid the city’s crisis with lead-tainted water, the AP reports. Jeff Hornacek to be new Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek will be the new coach of the New York Knicks, ABC News reports. Hornacek was fired by the Phoenix Suns in February after the team lost 19 of 21 games and 14 straight on the road. MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON BACK Produced by UI Health Care Marketing and Communications Read Noon News online at medcom.uiowa.edu/theloop Please recycle! UPCOMING EVENTS ▪ The Carver College of Medicine and the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute are hosting Science Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. through September in the courtyard connecting MERF, PBDB, and BSB. Today there will be six food trucks, a mini simulator that tests texting and driving safety, and live bluegrass music by Slewgrass. Questions? Contact Jennifer Stout at [email protected]. Everyone is welcome! ▪ Register now for the Ethics in Healthcare 2016 conference to be held from 7:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. tomorrow in 2117 MERF. The conference has been approved for both CME and CEU credit. To register, contact the UI Carver College of Medicine CME office at 335-8599. For more information, visit medicine.uiowa.edu/bioethics/ethicsinhealthcare. ▪ The Stead Family Department of Pediatrics will present Pediatric Grand Rounds at noon tomorrow in the East Room (Elevator F, Level 8). Speakers are James Gern, MD, University of Wisconsin, and Miles Weinberger, MD, UI Health Care. Box lunch will be available. Questions? Email [email protected]. ▪ Children age 4 to 17 are invited to take part in the Teddy Bear Clinic, which aims at making health care fun for kids. The free event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday in the UI Center for Digestive Diseases (Elevator F, Level 4). RSVP to [email protected]. Space is limited. ▪ Mindful Parenting is a graduate group for anyone who has completed a mindfulness class through UI Hospitals and Clinics Mindfulness-Based Programs. The group meets from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, from June 14 through July 12. Classes are at UI Hospitals and Clinics. For details or to register, visit uihealthcare.org/mindfulness or email [email protected]. Sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry. GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ▪ Elevator banks K and L in the Pomerantz Family Pavilion will be out of service from 7 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 21. The outage will permit an electrical system upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your patience. Questions? Contact Tom Davin, Engineering Services, 356-2582. ▪ Remember three steps to prevent infection, and we will create a cleaner, safer environment for our patients: clean your hands before and after every patient contact, clean your stethoscope after every patient contact, and go bare below the elbows (recommend no sleeves past the elbows or items on the wrists). Questions? Call 356-1606. ▪ Beginning Monday, May 23, traffic on Hawkins Drive will be reduced for about two weeks to two lanes in each direction from South Hospital Drive to Evashevski Drive. Northbound and southbound traffic flow will be maintained, and flagmen will be on-site. The lane closures are necessary to complete exterior work on the new children’s hospital. We apologize for any inconvenience, and appreciate your patience. Questions? Contact Jason Miller, Capital Management, 467-5512. ▪ May is Skin Cancer Awareness month. Receive 20 percent discounts on EltaMD® sunscreen products during the month of May at the UI Dermatology Clinic (Elevator L, Level 3). Questions? Contact Jess at [email protected] or 384-6831. ▪ May is Healthy Vision Month. Eye exams play an important role in detecting eye diseases in the early stages and ensuring people see their best. Take steps to make your vision last a lifetime. Schedule an eye exam by calling the UI Eye Clinic at 356-2852 and learn more about protecting your vision at GetEyeSmart.org. ▪ Help patients, family members, and visitors find their way. As you travel the corridors, offer help to guests who appear to need assistance. Provide clear directions or “make a difference” by walking guests to their destinations. If you don’t know the directions, dial 101 from any hospital phone; ask a fellow staff member for assistance; or escort the guest to the nearest information desk. This kind of personal attention will exceed our guests’ expectations and improve their experience here. ▪ UI Health Care faculty and staff: when things don’t go as planned with patients or visitors and service recovery is needed, remember the H.E.A.R.T. Model: Hear, Empathize, Apologize, Resolve, and Thank. Use the nearest Service Recovery Toolkit to offer amends. Learn more on The Point. RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS INVITED View additional research studies at uihealthcare.org/studies. ▪ Non-smoking, healthy adults age 18 to 79 with a BMI of 25 or greater and a systolic blood pressure (top number) of 130 or higher, are invited to participate in a research study investigating the effects of a blood pressure drug on vascular and nerve function. Compensation provided. If interested, call 353-5650 or email [email protected]. More staff and faculty news on The Loop: medcom.uiowa.edu/theloop Contact Noon News at [email protected]. Persons with a disability requiring reasonable accommodations in order to participate in programs at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics may discuss their needs with Concierge Services in advance at 356-1900. .