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Show IK Former Pleasant Grove man receives UVRMC Extra Miler Award for savings in laboratory I By making a minor modification in an incubation procedure in the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Laboratory, Harley Jense, microbiology supervisor, has saved his department $1,388 a year, which is a savings that can ultimately be passed on to patients. And for that he has won the hospital's Extra Miler Award, which was instituted by hospital administration to encourage employees em-ployees to find cost savings and provide better service to patients. Tom Helton, laboratory manager, explained that Jense modified the required CO-2 level needed to grow bacteria in the lab and found that by reducing the percent of CO-2 he got the same results only at a lower cost. Jense has been at UVRMC for almost 20 years. At the present time he and his wife, Norma, are living in Highland with their five children. Jense is originally from Pleasant Grove and graduated from BYU with a degree in microbiology. "We had always heard that you could cut down on the percentage used and get the same results," Jense said. "So we decided to fool around W1th it a bit and at f, J it down from lo percent to' ) an percent and it was too low tv 1u when we brought it back up b v 0,0 percent and found that it s 198 worked and saved us money " 1 Jense said he thinks ever? r 1 ployee should be looking fora: " improve things in their area o(i M and to help cut costs. le t PR ourselves and everyone el cj W volved when we are looking !j' ? ways to improve," he said. MA In his time away from workte' 1. said he enjoys hunting andthei v of doors, along with raising how |