Resignations over UST hospital... any ideas??

[Innova_Boy]

I just heard this news thru the grapevine...

any one out there know whats the real score and if its true??

This has something to do to the soon to be built P3billion peso UST Hospital commercial building there in USTe.....


WBR,

[niky]

Let's wait for Doc Otep.... sounds serious...

[OTEP]

Not sure about the details. But yes it pertains to the proposed new medical tower. I haven't been listening to the chismax very much so I'm not really of help. Sorry.

There has been a lot of hoopla going around ever since the medical school and the hospital were classified as separate entities (they used to be together).

[uls]

last i heard, the banks wont release the funds for construction.

The banks dont freakin know who exactly they are dealing with...

mahirap na kasi baka pag dating ng singilan ng utang, magtuturuan ung mga taga UST

[kinyo]

pera na naman ang puno't dulo ... as usual!

[mazdamazda]

I've read about this UST Hospital "issue" several months ago... as I remember:

- A new organization was formed for the "new" hospital, with several priests & nuns as the board.

- This organization is not anymore a "non-profit" organization (like the current UST Hospital), it'll be a corporation with stocks and all.

- The family of the original land donor of the UST site is threatening to get back UST's lands should this push through since in the original contract, it is stipulated there that the whole UST site should only be used for non-profit causes.

- The medical equipment being used by the old UST Hospital is now being transferred w/o prior clearance from the donors to the new corporate UST Hospital.

- The new UST corporation took out a loan to finance the construction of a new building.

[baludoy]

is this it?

http://www.manilamail.com/archive/jun2007/07jun03.htm

[niky]

Holy crow.

Isn't UST supposed to stay non-profit by nature? How the heck did the project get greenlighted?

[smooth]

there's a letter circulating in another forum regarding this issue. sorry, i can't elaborate as i don't have firsthand info.

[mazdamazda]

is this it?

http://www.manilamail.com/archive/jun2007/07jun03.htm

Mismo!

Thanks for digging that up.

[strutot]

is this it?

http://www.manilamail.com/archive/jun2007/07jun03.htm

WOW.. that's one heck of a prime real estate!!! BPI seems to be a very cautious bank, why syndicate a deal without any collateral.. hmmm...

[ale828]

Dami siguro corruption dyan.
While i was in UST a few years back i heard a lot of corruptions going on with the older doctors, the boards or directors, owners, etc.
Looks like even priest are getting in on the act.

[mayana]

Hmm, I have a friend working at the STUH. Matanong nga sya mamaya...

[OTEP]

Hindi na STUH, USTH na.

[kinyo]

2005 pa pala nagumpisa ang gulo dyan ... yung reshuffling of doctors ... accdg to some docs

[mayana]

Hindi na STUH, USTH na.

Ehehe, ganon po ba?

OT: Doc OTEP kilala ka nung friend ko, kung hindi ako nakakamali ng description ko sayo.

[iamkristopher]

Hindi na non-profit?

Hambalusin na ng tax iyan.

[The Prince]

this is somewhat related to the topic,

From The Varsitarian website...

De La Rosa named acting rector
Azpiroz accepts resignations of top UST officials

Fr. Rolando V. De La Rosa, O.P. has been named acting rector of UST, following a directive from the head of the Dominican Order based in Rome for a “new leadership team” tasked to create a consensus on how to proceed with developments in the University and the UST Hospital.

The Prior Provincial of the Philippine Dominican Province, Fr. Edmund Nantes, O.P., who is also UST vice chancellor, has resigned along with Rector Fr. Ernesto Arceo, O.P., and Vice Rector Fr. Juan Ponce, O.P.

The resignations have been accepted by the Master of the Order of Preachers, Fr. Carlos A. Aspiroz Costa, O.P., according to a circular issued last September 11.

Fr. Azpiroz, who serves as grand chancellor of the University, is in Manila for a canonical visitation.

“The Master believes that a new leadership team will be better able to create the consensus necessary for future developments at the University and Hospital, especially as UST begins preparations for its 400th anniversary in 2011,” Secretary General Fr. Isidro Abaño, O.P. said in the circular, which he also read before a meeting of deans, regents, and department heads.

The circular said Fr. Quirico Pedregosa, O.P. had been named vicar over the University and was asked to “remain in the office for the foreseeable future.” Fr. Pedregosa is the master’s assistant for Asia-Pacific and had served as prior provincial of the Philippine Dominican Province.

Fr. De La Rosa, a two-term UST rector and former chairman of the Commission on Higher Education, was appointed acting rector by Fr. Azpiroz and will remain in office until a new rector is named by the Holy See.

The September 11 circular indicated that the plan to spin off UST Hospital into a commercial operation has been stopped and would be reviewed. The country’s premiere university hospital, which separated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery three years ago, was to embark on a P3-billion expansion program involving the construction of a 19-storey tower to house doctors’ clinics and other medical facilities.

But now, the goal of the redevelopment is to ensure that UST will continue to offer the “highest educational standards in the formation of future doctors and allied medical practitioners and the highest level of medical care and services in both its Clinical and Pay divisions.”

“The redevelopment project for the UST Hospital will remain an important priority of UST. Further studies will need to be undertaken in order to find the most effective redevelopment plan,” the circular stated. Kristine Jane R. Liu

[OTEP]

Hindi na non-profit?

Hambalusin na ng tax iyan.

Anong non-profit? Tignan nga nila kung magkano singil nila sa pay parking bago sila humirit ng non-profit $hit na iyan.

[uls]

haha...

basta where there's a pie, people will fight for a piece of it.

the bigger the pie, the bigger the fight.