Haha, to parrot Haro and liltxcat, I really didn't go to lecture either, and when I did it was usually just to socialize
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Ok, so I watched the townhall meeting from yesterday.
-They ended up releasing 2450 employees, not the 3800 originally planned.
-about 90 3rd year students are back in Galvy.
-since Ike, 1500+ babies have been delivered and 127k+ outpatient visits have taken place.
-about 750 hospital admissions have occurred since it opened this month, with the census being 224 yesterday morning (basically operating at capacity). The ED has seen around 2600 people.
-They expect a couple of clinics in the League City facility under construction to open in Dec.
-Aiming to reopen the trauma center in the spring, probably as a lvl 3 at first.
-will not handle indigent/unsponsored? care at the same level as before. According to their projections, if they did so they'd lose $250+mil/year by 2013, and it was a main reason UTMB's finances have been relatively unstable for a long time.
-Consulting firm to release its analysis to the Regents and the legislature in a few weeks. They'll give details and pros/cons for about 3 different possible configurations...
1. keep everything on island and invest in new facilities here.
2. relocation of most of inpatient capacity to mainland
3. split inpatient capacity betweeen mainland and island facilities.
Calendar said to expect the legislative session to heat up mid-March through May. They're asking for 336 mil in emergency funding, in addition to funds for items and funding they would have asked for anyway (including 40 mil for a new education building, and ~18 mil each for research in ID, burns, and brain research).
liltxcat, what did they tell you guys about 3rd year at your meeting?
