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New York Hospitals Create Outcry in Foreign Deal
New York Citys Health and Hospitals Corporation has signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with a profit-making medical school in the Caribbean to provide clinical training for hundreds of students at the citys 11 public hospitals.
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They say that the contract, with St. Georges University School of Medicine on the island of Grenada, has turned a meritocracy into a bounty system in which struggling city hospitals collect more for every St. Georges student they take, and could squeeze out local students.
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The contract also bans the hospitals from providing clerkships to other Caribbean medical schools a critical provision to St. Georges, which has faced heightened competition in recent years, particularly from Ross University on the island of Dominica, part of DeVry Inc., a publicly traded educational company, since 2003.
The board member who first proposed the exclusive contract, Dr. Daniel D. Ricciardi a 1981 graduate of St. Georges and a rheumatologist affiliated with Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn said he had recused himself from deliberations involving St. Georges. Dr. Ricciardi, who has been on the 16-member corporation board since 2000 and on the St. Georges faculty for about 15 years, said he did not benefit financially from the deal. He was promoted to St. Georges dean of clinical studies and put in charge of United States clerkships shortly before the contract was signed.
New York Citys Health and Hospitals Corporation has signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with a profit-making medical school in the Caribbean to provide clinical training for hundreds of students at the citys 11 public hospitals.
...
They say that the contract, with St. Georges University School of Medicine on the island of Grenada, has turned a meritocracy into a bounty system in which struggling city hospitals collect more for every St. Georges student they take, and could squeeze out local students.
...
The contract also bans the hospitals from providing clerkships to other Caribbean medical schools a critical provision to St. Georges, which has faced heightened competition in recent years, particularly from Ross University on the island of Dominica, part of DeVry Inc., a publicly traded educational company, since 2003.
The board member who first proposed the exclusive contract, Dr. Daniel D. Ricciardi a 1981 graduate of St. Georges and a rheumatologist affiliated with Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn said he had recused himself from deliberations involving St. Georges. Dr. Ricciardi, who has been on the 16-member corporation board since 2000 and on the St. Georges faculty for about 15 years, said he did not benefit financially from the deal. He was promoted to St. Georges dean of clinical studies and put in charge of United States clerkships shortly before the contract was signed.
