It’s unanimous: The Memorial task force will recommend that University of Colorado Hospital lease Memorial Health System for the next 40 years. All four City Council members on the task force said they support the CU proposal, joining the opinion of the advisory committee, which also supported the University of Colorado. “We’ll work with it,” [...]
Continue reading …While none of the city council members announced their intentions at this morning’s Memorial Health System meeting, the non-voting members unanimously picked University of Colorado Hospital. Only the four city council members will vote on which proposal moves forward to city council, but the advisory members – Doug Quimby, Phil Lane, Dr. Michael Welch, Carolyn [...]
Continue reading …Hospital systems vying to lease Memorial could end up passing along the millions of dollars of lease costs on to customers through higher costs for care. It’s happened before and could happen here if cost controls aren’t spelled out in the new lease, said Dr. Steve Berkshire, a professor and director of health administration for [...]
Continue reading …Hospital systems vying to lease Memorial could end up passing millions of dollars in lease costs on to customers through higher costs for care, unless price controls are built into a new lease. It’s happened before and could happen here, said Dr. Steve Berkshire, a professor and director of health administration for Central Michigan University. [...]
Continue reading …Memorial: System ‘of the community, by the community, for the community’
December 2, 2011 Comments OffThe Memorial Health System proposal was created with the advice of local health care providers and more than 60 members of the business community. While there were no promises the plan could immediately pay off millions of owed dollars, the theme was creating a hospital system that was “of the community, by the community and [...]
Continue reading …Economies of scale – that was the basis of HCA/HealthOne’s presentation before the City Council’s task force this morning. HCA’s proposal provides a $500 million upfront 40-year lease payment, and lets the city keep about $334 million in the first year. It also provides $1 billion in capital costs, and unlike the nonprofit proposals, an [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Springs City Council released thousands of pages of documents from the remaining four groups bidding to run Memorial Health System for the next 40 years. The four bids from Memorial, Centura, Exempla and University of Colorado that were released today propose a nonprofit system, but their approaches vary. Memorial and Centura want the [...]
Continue reading …Both hospitals in Colorado Springs have been accredited by a national organization for breast care. Penrose-St. Francis Health Services and Memorial Health System received full, three-year accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, a program administered by the American College of Surgeons. This is Memorial’s first year to be recognized for the program, [...]
Continue reading …The fight over Memorial Health System’s future is shaping up to become a David-and-Goliath battle — but there’s no certainty the little guy will win this time. The battle is pitting some of the nation’s largest health care systems against a single, grassroots group that wants to maintain local control of the hospital. The Colorado [...]
Continue reading …The public will have two opportunities to hear the six proposals to lease Memorial Health System. On Dec. 2, when the task force has finished scoring the proposals, it will meet for six hours with bidders to hear proposal details On Dec. 7, a town hall meeting will offer each bidding organization an hour to complete [...]
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