The significant part of the article quoted is:
"It is neither reasonable nor possible to dissolve these partnerships and precipitously move these trainees to other hospitals throughout the United States. To do so would trigger site visits from the accreditation agencies, which would likely result in the closure of our programs and our school along with the loss of health care for Louisiana’s citizens."
The partnerships referred to are the contracts between LSU and the private hospitals. It's possible that the private hospitals would leave their contracts if the State budget didn't fund enough money. However, even with funding, the site visits could still take place simply due to the continuous uncertainty of annual funding threatening the future existence of the LSU programs.
The issue of state funding from the state budget happens every year - this is Louisiana. Louisiana government as a whole always has budget issues and the state always passes a budget without reducing budgets for LSU medical training. Louisiana politicians love to make bold statements, and get attention from the local press.
My salary went up by about $3500 this year. Remember salary and resident funding is mostly paid for by Medicare from the US government budget - not Louisiana state. LSU medical school pays for part of faculty salary - rest is from the private EM group that owns the hospital contract.
We just had a site visit because we have had faculty leaving and new faculty joining. Additionally, ACGME was concerned about our board pass rate from 2012. Our program has had a large amount of change since then, and the current program director made many of those improvements. He was not the program director that trained our past graduates who had issues passing the boards.
We had no issues continuing ACGME accreditation after the site visit. Our current and last year’s graduates have had well above average ITE scores. These are the classes that the current program director selected from the match and trained all 3 years.
For the person/people trying to find dirt on the program, you will notice that next year one of the residents from the current second year class will be missing. He choose to resign and switch to Internal Medicine residency. He did this on his own accord, and our program was very supportive of him. He was not fired.
This is still a hidden gem of a program with an excellent training experience and awesome lifestyle outside of medicine.
Edit- I believe in me telling you ahead of time before any published record that one of our second year residents is switching to IM - will prove that I am indeed a current resident of the program.
