UConn Health Center = New Hospital? Update

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Subject: [SpinLyme] UConn Health Center = New Hospital? Update

Date: Apr 17, 2009 8:19 AM

UConn should not be rewarded with a new hospital for participating in
the biggest medical crime EVER:
http://www.actionlyme.org/UCONN_NO_HOSPITAL.htm

If they try it, there will be a class action against Corrupticut based
on Blumenthal's lawsuit against IDSA.

Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.courant.com/news/health/hc-uconn-still-alive-0417.artapr17,0,6659592.story

HOSPITALS
Connecticut Lawmakers Try To Keep Hospital Merger Idea Alive

By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER | The Hartford Courant
April 17, 2009

Lawmakers hoping to keep alive plans to remake the UConn Health Center
on Thursday recommended authorizing $50 million in bonding for the
effort, despite Gov. M. Jodi Rell's opposition to the UConn plan.

The $50 million recommended by the legislature's finance, revenue and
bonding committee represents a small piece of the $475 million in
bonding that the UConn proposal calls for. And it may mean little if
Rell maintains her position that the proposal is too costly for the
state during an economic crisis. Rell controls the agenda for the
State Bond Commission and has final say on what bonding projects move
forward.

But state Rep. Cameron Staples, the finance committee's co-chairman,
said the move was intended to make sure that discussions about the
Health Center's future move forward. UConn's John Dempsey Hospital is
considered outdated and inadequate for current medical standards, and
Staples said that state officials must come up with an alternative.

"Doing nothing is not necessarily an appropriate response," he said.

Related links

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UConn Officials: Rell's Stance On Hospital Merger A Mistake
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Rell's Letter: Health Center Plan Intriguing But Unaffordable
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Bed Space In Hartford-Area Hospitals Graphic
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Proposal Makes UConn Health Center, Hartford Hospital Partners

The UConn proposal calls for merging the Health Center with Hartford
Hospital to create a two-campus "University Hospital." It also calls
for the state to fund the cost of building a new, $475 million
hospital to replace Dempsey and pay an estimated $13 million a year in
labor costs.

UConn leaders have fought vigorously for the plan, saying it is
necessary to save Dempsey and to enhance the medical school. They have
also argued that the potential for job growth from a new academic
medical center would make it a worthwhile investment for a state that
is losing highly skilled young workers to other states.

In announcing her opposition last month, Rell called the proposal
intriguing but unaffordable, a view that Rell spokesman Adam Liegeot
said Thursday that she still holds. "The state cannot afford to take
on the debt service that would be necessary to build a new hospital,"
he said.

The merger proposal itself also still needs approval from the
legislature and Rell.


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news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci


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