UT adopts plan for UTMB - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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The resolution, adopted at a special boardf meeting, includes renovating the hospital to provide about 220 inpatient beds and atraumq center. Callendar has been asked to work with the boarcd to develop a business plan for the new tower and to applt any dollars received to restorse theremaining storm-damaged structures at UTMB. Last presented the board with three optionwfor UTMB, which was damageds by Hurricane Ike last September. The health care consulting firm had concluded that the best optionj for financial stability was to move all of the UTMB inpatienyt hospital capacity inlandto UTMB’s newly develope d League City campus.
“We are confident a financially viable healtgh care delivery system for the institutionj based on a robusy and comprehensive business plan willbe developed,” H. Scot t Caven Jr., regent chairman, said in a statement. “Thde board wants UTMB to succeed and prosper to servr future generations of and we believe the resolution adopted today representws a responsible step in establishing a successfu l health care operation for the islanfd and region necessary to supporgt the mission of a comprehensivr academichealth center.
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