Reducing excessive medical costs associated with high hospital readmission rates is a pillar of health care reform. From 2007 to 2011, as many as 19 percent of patients in the United States returned to hospitals less than a month after discharge, accounting for an estimated $15 million in preventable hospitalization costs.
In an effort to prevent adverse outcomes for chronically ill and aging patients and reduce the burden of cost on the government, Medicare providers have implemented transitional care management programs (TCMs) as a bundled component of Medicare payment plans.
Please join Gina Vessels, SRAS Post Award Manager, for one of our informational sessions on the monthly financial reports distributed by Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) for grant accounts. There will be a general review of the report structure and discussion of the information within the report, and there will be ample time for questions and discussion after the presentation.
In a recent article in the journal Nature Biotechnology, University of Kentucky Assistant Professor Nathan Vanderford and doctoral candidate Heather Norman-Burgdolf describe a course developed to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows be prepared for the realities of the job market.
Every year, doctoral graduates enter the job market in search of tenure-track professorship positions at universities throughout the world. Unfortunately, the number of new Ph.D.
Five days before Christmas, University of Kentucky researcher Ying Liang, MD, PhD, received what she described as the best gift ever: a letter of notification that she received a prestigious R01 grant, totaling $1.88 million over five years, from the National Institutes of Health. Not only was it her first such award, she scored at the second percentile, an uncommonly high score indicating that her proposal was nearly flawless.
A glimpse of her CV and her obvious passion for research render the award somewhat less surprising.
University of Kentucky Provost Tim Tracy and Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Dr. Michael Karpf announced Monday that Dr. Robert DiPaola, director of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Vice Chancellor for Cancer Programs, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, has been named dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
Dr.
In response to multiple department requests, the SRAS created a report to provide monthly department-level information for chairs/directors and department administrators pertaining to grant budgeted funds vs. actual expensed funds. The report uses information from BW (the reporting tool for the University’s financial system) to establish a burn rate to estimate how each grant is expensing and will expense over the course of the grant life.
Every day throughout 2015, University of Kentucky physiologist Ken Campbell laced up his running shoes and took off for a 5-kilometer run, regardless of his schedule, plans or location.
Regular running routes were plotted through his neighborhood and around the university’s campus. When traveling on business, he explored new territories and scenery on his runs. He also logged many miles running next to students on treadmills at the Johnson Center. Nothing stopped Campbell from completing a "5K a day."
Dr. Gregory Bix has been given honorary status in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Bix will be an honorary clinical lecturer in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. His appointment will expire in 2020.
Bix, an associate professor in the University of Kentucky's Departments of Neurology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, and the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, is also the director of the Center for Advanced Translational Stroke Science and the Paul G. Blazer, Jr. Endowed Professor of Stroke Research.
According to Dr. Larry B.
The SOPs for the SRAS are currently being reviewed and updated. An updated draft of the SOP for Reconciliation has been posted to the SRAS SOP website. You can find it by clicking on Reconciliation.
NIH recently released revised application guides and supplemental instructions for applications with due dates on or between January 25, 2016 and May 24, 2016. These applications will continue to use Forms C.
SRAS has a Useful Information Page that contains a wealth of information to assist College of Medicine faculty, staff and trainees with the grant development and management process.One new item has recently been added, a document entitled “PADR at a Glance”.This new documen
University of Kentucky researcher Bradley Taylor recently received a five-year, $3 million research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to better understand the physiological mechanisms of chronic pain.
For many patients recovering from an injury, pain disappears after the injury heals, but for others, pain persists for months, years or even decades.
UK HealthCare's Kentucky Neuroscience Institute (KNI) has been re-designated a Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC) by The Joint Commission (TJC) and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
UK HealthCare was first designated a CSC in 2014. It is one of 96 U.S. institutions — and the only one in Lexington — with CSC-designation.
With the recent changes to the PI Reports that are distributed each month by Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA), we’re providing some informational sessions to all faculty and staff interested in understanding & interpreting these reports. It took a bit longer than expected, but we have scheduled several sessions to review the information included in these reports. Our first sessions are as follows:
The semi-annual proposal deadlines for the American Heart Association are coming up in January 2016. In addition to alerting your Pre-Award GPS as soon as possible of your plans, here are a few helpful hints as you start working on your propo
