I never thought I would be the student independently studying anything, much less anything involved with health care but then the O’Brien Fellowship happened.
I should say before I get overly involved with what I discovered from my preliminary readings that a campaign I started last year to Save the Tribune from page cuts somehow got associated with the reassignment of the O’Brien fellowship money. I never intended for that to happen, and I personally know that you cannot reassign funds that are donated to you. It was a shame the association happened, and I sincerely apologize that it happened.
But now on to the fun part, when I first saw the topic that Lilly Thomas proposed I was certainly intrigued. I spent the past year and a half writing about health in the city of Milwaukee, and I naturally thought I was a perfect fit for a project about accessibility of healthcare.
When I started to read about the situation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, I was taken aback.
There is an incredibly interesting predicament going on in Pittsburgh right now. UPMC has a tax exempt status on all of their properties, and I cannot help but feel that, UPMC isn’t following the five requisites laid out in act 55. Because of this I would personally like to see UPMC pay taxes at least on some of their properties, but because of the nature of the corporation, and just generally their size and effectiveness in the medical community I think it will be very hard if nearly impossible to challenge UPMC.
I think this independent study is going to be many things: revealing, captivating, research heavy (just to name a few) I could make a list that spans the entirety of this page, but for now I will leave you with this. This upcoming semester is hopefully going to be very revealing when I start looking at situations like Pittsburgh around the United States, and I hope to keep you all informed on what I find.
I should say before I get overly involved with what I discovered from my preliminary readings that a campaign I started last year to Save the Tribune from page cuts somehow got associated with the reassignment of the O’Brien fellowship money. I never intended for that to happen, and I personally know that you cannot reassign funds that are donated to you. It was a shame the association happened, and I sincerely apologize that it happened.
But now on to the fun part, when I first saw the topic that Lilly Thomas proposed I was certainly intrigued. I spent the past year and a half writing about health in the city of Milwaukee, and I naturally thought I was a perfect fit for a project about accessibility of healthcare.
When I started to read about the situation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, I was taken aback.
There is an incredibly interesting predicament going on in Pittsburgh right now. UPMC has a tax exempt status on all of their properties, and I cannot help but feel that, UPMC isn’t following the five requisites laid out in act 55. Because of this I would personally like to see UPMC pay taxes at least on some of their properties, but because of the nature of the corporation, and just generally their size and effectiveness in the medical community I think it will be very hard if nearly impossible to challenge UPMC.
I think this independent study is going to be many things: revealing, captivating, research heavy (just to name a few) I could make a list that spans the entirety of this page, but for now I will leave you with this. This upcoming semester is hopefully going to be very revealing when I start looking at situations like Pittsburgh around the United States, and I hope to keep you all informed on what I find.