There is no question that Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania are richly blessed to have one of the op ten academic medical centers and associated hospital systems in the United States. Last year I observed with wonderment the acquisition of two intercontinental jets to fly the imperious leadership of UPMC to visit their international assets. So [...]
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Resistance to Change
The human impulses related to change is probably as old as our knuckle dragging ancestors. Presented only as English literature, there [...]
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Hubris Seems to be Flying High at UPMC
The Trib reported last Sunday (May 6, 2007) that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has leased a second corporate jet. The second jet is a Bombardier Global Express valued at between $30 million and $50 million with a monthly lease payment estimated at $280,000.
A UPMC [...]
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Mr. Jennings in known to express strong policy positions with respect to healthcare reform and is frequently referred to as America's "Health Care Thought Provocateur. At the age of 33, assumed first CEO position at St. Luke's Memorial in Utica, New York and won the prestigious Young Hospital Administrator of the Year Award from the ACHE in 1983. In 1993 became CEO of Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital. [Read More]