Special BOT meeting on Fri

[Richard the LIONhearted]

Any thoughts on what this could be?

A special meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees will be held via conference call at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15. The purpose of this is to consider a matter involving the University's medical enterprise. This meeting is open to the public for listening purposes on an audio feed at wpsu.org/trustees online.

 

[919_Lion]

A surgeon will remove their heads from their arses?

 

[MontereyLion]

A surgeon will remove their heads from their arses?

Scientifically impossible.

 

[Phil's Rug]

 

[The Spin Meister]

Any thoughts on what this could be?

A special meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees will be held via conference call at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15. The purpose of this is to consider a matter involving the University's medical enterprise. This meeting is open to the public for listening purposes on an audio feed at wpsu.org/trustees online.

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Announcing a radical new transplant procedure. They will transplant intelligence, character, class, morals, and integrity into several key BoT members. Newer, powerful anti-rejection drugs have been developed to stop host from rejecting such foreign materials. Intensive monitoring and therapy will be necessary to track the development of these new characteristics.

 

[The Song Remains the Same]

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Emergency funding to help pay MSU’s victims. After all, Joe HAD to know what was going on East Lansing.

 

[LurkerLazarus]

They're out of champagne. They need to get some ordered, quickly.

 

[ThePennsyOracle]

Joyner has made great advances in the field of felching and the university wants to create a new medical department based on his research.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

 

[bkmtnittany1]

I was wondering why the onion dip truck was driving around campus!

 

[psuro]

A surgeon will remove their heads from their arses?

 

[Art]

I was wondering why the onion dip truck was driving around campus!

Did you see the same one that I did?

 

[drblue1977]

This is just a down payment to reimburse you for your travel expenses and .........cooperation.

 

[baircub1!]

Any thoughts on what this could be?

A special meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees will be held via conference call at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15. The purpose of this is to consider a matter involving the University's medical enterprise. This meeting is open to the public for listening purposes on an audio feed at wpsu.org/trustees online.

Think its about naming rights for the new State College Gambling Casino...

 

[BobPSU92]

Any thoughts on what this could be?

A special meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees will be held via conference call at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15. The purpose of this is to consider a matter involving the University's medical enterprise. This meeting is open to the public for listening purposes on an audio feed at wpsu.org/trustees online.

Stupid question. Is "the University's medical enterprise" a fancy way of saying Hershey Medical Center? Currently that is the enterprise, yes?

 

[psuro]

Stupid question. Is "the University's medical enterprise" a fancy way of saying Hershey Medical Center? Currently that is the enterprise, yes?

No. This is the Enterprise. Please keep up.

 

[BobPSU92]

No. This is the Enterprise. Please keep up.

PSU is buying a medical spaceship? Well, it is only someone else's money.

 

[LurkerLazarus]

"I'm a doctor, Jim, not a member of the Board of Trustees. There's a limit to what I can do."

 

[RandyL]

When you guys roll, you roll.

 

[PSU73]

...a little late because the road is already littered with it; but hey, keep it going.

 

[Nitwit]

Any thoughts on what this could be?

A special meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees will be held via conference call at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15. The purpose of this is to consider a matter involving the University's medical enterprise. This meeting is open to the public for listening purposes on an audio feed at wpsu.org/trustees online.

I wouldn't be surprised if we are expanding Hershey Medical through a merger. It's happening all over ( at Penn, Jerfferson, etc) for example. Adding more hospitals to the network generally makes sense, as its harder for the smaller groups to compete for Doctors and patients. It's also more efficient to funnel the more serious cases to the main hub. Not sure who the targets might be, perhaps a Geisinger or Lancaster General who are both already big in center all Pa. This all pure conjecture on my part, but if they're not doing this, perhaps they should.

 

[bkmtnittany1]

Did you see the same one that I did?

The rear one is just for Barron!

 

[ThePennsyOracle]

Not sure who the targets might be, perhaps a Geisinger or Lancaster General who are both already big in center all Pa. This all pure conjecture on my part, but if they're not doing this, perhaps they should.

I can say with 100000000% certainty it will not be Geisinger. Don't you remember how well that went before?

 

[Richard the LIONhearted]

I wouldn't be surprised if we are expanding Hershey Medical through a merger. It's happening all over ( at Penn, Jerfferson, etc) for example. Adding more hospitals to the network generally makes sense, as its harder for the smaller groups to compete for Doctors and patients. It's also more efficient to funnel the more serious cases to the main hub. Not sure who the targets might be, perhaps a Geisinger or Lancaster General who are both already big in center all Pa. This all pure conjecture on my part, but if they're not doing this, perhaps they should.

Finally! A normal fricken response. My guess is that they will announce a large hub in State College under the Hershey brand. Only a guess.

 

[PA_JOE]

Bob,

Technically the full enterprise is now called Penn State Health (as opposed to Hershey Medical Center).

C’mon man if I can take the time to learn how to use the quote feature correctly you can certainly keep up with the proper names of the University enterprises.

I. AM. OUTRAGED.

Stupid question. Is "the University's medical enterprise" a fancy way of saying Hershey Medical Center? Currently that is the enterprise, yes?

 

[psuro]

Bob,

Technically the full enterprise is now called Penn State Health (as opposed to Hershey Medical Center).

C’mon man if I can take the time to learn how to use the quote feature correctly you can certainly keep up with the proper names of the University enterprises.

I. AM. OUTRAGED.

The board has passed him by. He needs to retire.

 

[Evan Ceg]

The meeting might have something to do with the recently proposed CVS Health-Aetna merger, which would affect the University's health care administration for employees. The University announced in August that on Jan. 1, 2018, Aetna will become the third-party administrator (TPA) for the University’s medical benefits, and CVS Caremark will become the TPA for the University’s prescription drug benefits, both replacing Highmark, which has been the TPA for the medical and prescription drug benefits plans for the past ten years.

 

[PA_JOE]

Puzzle pieces? :

“replacing Highmark, which has been the TPA for the medical and prescription drug benefits plans for the past ten years.”

“I wouldn't be surprised if we are expanding Hershey Medical through a merger.”

 

[Nitwit]

The CVS Aetna merger is a game changer and perhaps the way healthcare will evolve with large mega corporations owning everything. Think of Amazon owning drug companies, hospital chains, insurance companies, physician practices, and medical equipment manufacturers. It could be interesting but I'm not looking forward to it. Right now 25% of the country's GDP goes into healthcare spending, and there are many countries which spend far less but have a higher life expectancy. Some of this could be genetic. On the other hand the quality of healthcare in the USA is the best in the world.

 

[BobPSU92]

Bob,

Technically the full enterprise is now called Penn State Health (as opposed to Hershey Medical Center).

C’mon man if I can take the time to learn how to use the quote feature correctly you can certainly keep up with the proper names of the University enterprises.

I. AM. OUTRAGED.

 

[BobPSU92]

The board has passed him by. He needs to retire.

I need fired.

 

[PSU_sues_ncaa_big10]

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[PSU_sues_ncaa_big10]

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[psuro]

I need fired.

Someone will be knocking on your door with a note. In that note will be a number for you to call.

 

[psu00]

I wouldn't be surprised if we are expanding Hershey Medical through a merger. It's happening all over ( at Penn, Jerfferson, etc) for example. Adding more hospitals to the network generally makes sense, as its harder for the smaller groups to compete for Doctors and patients. It's also more efficient to funnel the more serious cases to the main hub. Not sure who the targets might be, perhaps a Geisinger or Lancaster General who are both already big in center all Pa. This all pure conjecture on my part, but if they're not doing this, perhaps they should.

They tried already. They tried to merge with Pinnacle Health which covers much of the Harrisburg region. The state denied the merger claiming too much of a monopoly (despite Geisinger/ Holy Spirit in town too). Then, somehow, the state allowed Pinnacle to merge with UPMC. There’s not much left for Hershey to merge with.

 

[PSU_sues_ncaa_big10]

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[BudatPSU]

A surgeon will remove their heads from their arses?

I did not know they made a medical instrument that long.

 

[Art]

I did not know they made a medical instrument that long.

Or that surgeons operated backhoes.

 

[BlueBand]

Finally! A normal fricken response. My guess is that they will announce a large hub in State College under the Hershey brand. Only a guess.

Will the hub be wrapped in tin foil with a streamer coming out that says Hershey's? That sounds like my kind of healthcare.