Post by pavel on May 13, 2016 2:04:34 GMT -6
University Medical Center warns LSU, Tulane medical schools of deep cuts to residency programs
The company that oversees the University Medical Center is warning LSU and Tulane medical school officials that "drastic expense reductions" forced by state budget cuts could mean the end of the schools' residency programs.
In an interview Thursday (May 12), LCMC Health CEO Greg Feirn blasted House Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry, whose committee passed a series of cuts that will lead to those reductions. On the floor of the House of Representatives, Henry told lawmakers that Louisiana's partnerships with hospitals like UMC "are a bad deal for the state," saying, "that's why they're being re-negotiated."
Feirn, who oversees the largest of the hospitals in the public-private partnership system the state set up to replace Louisiana's state-run hospitals, called Henry's comments "extremely frustrating."
A 2011 study projected it would cost Louisiana $127 million in 2017 to operate a newly constructed New Orleans charity hospital. But with private partnerships in place, Feirn said it costs the state $20 million after UMC makes its $88 million annual lease payment on the building it occupies on Canal Street.
Read more: www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/umc_warns_lsu_tulane_medical_s.html
The company that oversees the University Medical Center is warning LSU and Tulane medical school officials that "drastic expense reductions" forced by state budget cuts could mean the end of the schools' residency programs.
In an interview Thursday (May 12), LCMC Health CEO Greg Feirn blasted House Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry, whose committee passed a series of cuts that will lead to those reductions. On the floor of the House of Representatives, Henry told lawmakers that Louisiana's partnerships with hospitals like UMC "are a bad deal for the state," saying, "that's why they're being re-negotiated."
Feirn, who oversees the largest of the hospitals in the public-private partnership system the state set up to replace Louisiana's state-run hospitals, called Henry's comments "extremely frustrating."
A 2011 study projected it would cost Louisiana $127 million in 2017 to operate a newly constructed New Orleans charity hospital. But with private partnerships in place, Feirn said it costs the state $20 million after UMC makes its $88 million annual lease payment on the building it occupies on Canal Street.
Read more: www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/umc_warns_lsu_tulane_medical_s.html