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One point on which people appear to be saying very different things is how content MedStar is with the current location. Some are saying that they can't wait to move and find the facilities to be obsolete. Others say that GU is their most profitable campus in the area and they would be loath to move to another location (which would inevitably be in much lower-income surroundings), but see the writing on the wall that GU is going to kick the hospital out before too long and absorb the space into Main Campus. Whatever their true attitude is - and it may well be undecided or inconsistent - will probably have a significant impact on the direction this goes.

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Howard Federoff, executive vice president for health sciences at the Medical Center, raised in a June letter the prospect of the entire Medical Center moving off campus in the years ahead, as he anticipates that the Main Campus will ultimately need the space and the Medical Center will outgrow the current location.

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Federoff: In five years, we have to have an organization and financial model that produces limited but nonetheless sustainable growth in the Medical Center. It has weathered incredible adversity, and the fact that it has survived suggests we have very talented people here. But we have to look to the future, and that means recruiting young, talented, best-in-class faculty.

Beyond five years, I anticipate that we will need a new physical location. I don’t believe this medical center can legitimately be competitive within the region or nationally if we remain here on the Hilltop. Not because the Hilltop isn’t a great location, but our infrastructure here is tired, and it’s extraordinarily, some might say prohibitively, expensive to renovate for world-class research. Moreover, I believe strongly the entire Hilltop will be needed for the university’s main campus so, like the Law Center, we’ll have to pick ourselves up and move to another location.

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by Dizzy on Jun 12, 2012 2:34 pm • link • report