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Originally posted by Bart View Post
Evidently they were only serving about 8 patients a day, and elective surgery 2 days a week. Now they have to travel to UPMC Williamsport or Muncy, Many of these small hospitals are closing after being taken over by UPMC, Geisinger, or. Lehigh Valley. Berwick closed, and a psych hospital in Wilkes Barre closed.
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IUP and Harrisburg Area Community College enter an agreement
https://www.thepenn.org/news/iup-sig...ibextid=Zxz2cZ
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Things are going very well with the mergers:
The PennWest provost has resigned to pursue other opportunities.
The original Commonwealth provost left after one year to become president at Penn State Sheetz in Altoona. The current provost is a finalist to be president at Eastern Illinois.
Sounds like even the senior leadership is as the recruits say, locked in 1000% committed.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
I didn’t think Pitt had a thing that far away from Yinzerburgh.
Penn Medicine is always my first choice….Last edited by ctrabs74; 02-07-2023, 09:05 AM.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by Bart View Post
Evidently they were only serving about 8 patients a day, and elective surgery 2 days a week. Now they have to travel to UPMC Williamsport or Muncy, Many of these small hospitals are closing after being taken over by UPMC, Geisinger, or. Lehigh Valley. Berwick closed, and a psych hospital in Wilkes Barre closed.
The point is that this isn't just happening in rural areas like Lock Haven. Two hospitals closing in one of the state's wealthiest counties should've raised a few red flags in Harrisburg, but we know what a dumpster fire the political scene is in that state and we'll leave it at that.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostThings are going very well with the mergers:
The PennWest provost has resigned to pursue other opportunities.
The original Commonwealth provost left after one year to become president at Penn State Sheetz in Altoona. The current provost is a finalist to be president at Eastern Illinois.
Sounds like even the senior leadership is as the recruits say, locked in 1000% committed.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by ctrabs74 View Post
The Evil UPMC Empire stretches as far east as Harrisburg and northeast as Williamsport. And they apparently have a hospital in Cumberland, Md.
A variable entering the picture is WVU Medicine starting a health insurance arm and looking to enter PA.
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Originally posted by ctrabs74 View Post
Yeah, we're talking a "Lincoln Riley level of commitment to Oklahoma" right? Because the senior leadership doesn't look as committed as the powers that be in Harrisburg would want you to think.- They're expecting people making $55k to do more work with students they never get to know.
- They're expecting senior leadership to drive all over the state and hold endless Zoom check-ins.
- The consolidation of staffing has made campuses even more like barren wastelands.
- Its crippled alumni relations and fundraising beyond athletics.
- A lot of staff at every level are scrambling to get out. Like seeing job postings as a lifeboat spot on the Titanic. Every search at the PASSHE school I work at has a pool that's 1/3 internal applicants from merger campuses.
- The "Penn West Global Online" is just a rebrand of all the existing online programs from the 3 schools. Nothing new.
- The people who treated university work as a state civil service job to ride out until pension time are the ones who will never leave. They're still there doing mediocre at best work. Enrollment still plunging.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostThings are going very well with the mergers:
The PennWest provost has resigned to pursue other opportunities.
The original Commonwealth provost left after one year to become president at Penn State Sheetz in Altoona. The current provost is a finalist to be president at Eastern Illinois.
Sounds like even the senior leadership is as the recruits say, locked in 1000% committed.
It was tossing up a Hail Mary.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View PostIUP and Harrisburg Area Community College enter an agreement
https://www.thepenn.org/news/iup-sig...ibextid=Zxz2cZ
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Originally posted by Ship69 View Post
With the declining high school enrollments in western Pa., it's really been interesting to watch the western PASSHE schools hone in on central Pa. We're all going for a slice of an increasingly small pie in Pa.
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Originally posted by ctrabs74 View Post
Chester County lost two hospitals within the past couple of years thanks to the lowlifes who run Tower Health: Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville and Jennersville Regional Hospital near Avondale in Southern Chester County. The closure of Brandywine especially hurts because there's basically no hospital between Lancaster and Paoli, not to mention that Coatesville is a low-income minority area. Jennersville, however, appears to have been acquired by Delaware-based Christiana Care, so at least there's some hope for JRH.
The point is that this isn't just happening in rural areas like Lock Haven. Two hospitals closing in one of the state's wealthiest counties should've raised a few red flags in Harrisburg, but we know what a dumpster fire the political scene is in that state and we'll leave it at that.
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