Cardiac care wins national award The UCLA
Medical Center was honored at the American Heart Association 2001
Scientific Sessions with the association’s Get With the
Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Performance Achievement Award,
making it one of two hospitals nationwide to receive this honor. A
plaque presented to UCLA Medical Center will be placed in the
Cardiac Care Unit. The award recognizes UCLA’s efforts to
implement a new standard for cardiac care that effectively improves
treatment for patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease.
Under the program, patients are started immediately on
cholesterol-lowering drugs and other cardio-protective medications,
and are given dietary and lifestyle counseling while in the
hospital. By implementing this program, UCLA has cut repeat heart
attacks and one-year mortality rates by half. “By initiating
treatment in the hospital, patients better understand how important
the medications are to their long-term health and were more likely
to remain on therapy,” said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, associate
professor of medicine and director at the Ahmanson-UCLA
Cardiomyopathy Center. The AHA’s Get With the Guidelines
program, now used in hospitals nationwide, is modeled after a UCLA
program called Cardiovascular Hospitalization Atherosclerosis
Management Program. The CHAMP program was the first hospital-based
program of its kind in the country.
MBAs tackle ropes course The UCLA Anderson
School of Business’ orientation program put more than
business skills to the test. All new students found themselves
face-to-face with the Ropes Challenge Course as a mandatory
activity aimed to build teamwork. With a 100 percent participation
rate, 330 MBA students braved the course at Sunset Canyon
Recreation Center.
Wilderness week comes to campus The UCLA
California Public Interest Research Group chapter likes to keep it
wild ““ the environment that is. Today is the beginning of a
week-long campaign called “Keep it Wild” to protect the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as well as national
forests and the Gulf of Mexico. The organization will sell caribou
cookies and set up a canvas for students to paint a mural this
week. The campaign is being launched by student PIRGs across the
nation.
Reports from Daily Bruin wire services.