CSNbbs

This side for the medical side of things! $1.4 Billion...from the article

Highlights of the joint operating agreement include CHI, through its wholly owned KentuckyOne system in Kentucky, injecting $543.5 million of investment into the university medical operations during the first five years of the JOA, expanding to $1.4 billion over 20 years, including:

•$75 million annually for academic and program investments and another $95 million over the first three years for “key service lines and departments”;
• $70 million for IT infrastructure upgrades at UMC;
•$15 million for discretionary spending by U of L for each of the first three years, targeted on statewide health efforts;
•and $3 million dedicated for research annually and $7.5 million per year in capital investment for technology.
CHI, through its KentuckyOne subsidiary, will maintain University Hospital’s current levels of charity care by supporting the Quality and Charity Care Trust agreement supplemented by hospital operations, according to a news release.

http://insiderlouisville.com/news/2012/1...ntuckyone/

This is great news. I love this :

"So the CHI merger is not only back, it’s done, though apparently minus U of L having to abide by the Religious and Ethical Directives of the Roman Catholic Church."

Very important to not let religious views affect the quality of healthcare.
CJ

Agreed, Jim. That's apparently the main reason Conway advised against the previous deal.

As a Louisvillian and I Catholic I have been hurt by the way people of our community have responded towards this merger. After the great tornado in the 1890's there was a great yellow fever outbreak in Louisville, state health officals quarentined the area and basically left people to die, the little Sisters in the area did not abide this and brought food medicine and went in to the qurentined area and treated the sick and dieing. In that same tradition when the University Hospital which carrys the brunt of indigent care and emergency trauma was becoming dated and insolvant, the local community and state and local goventment refused to step in and pay what was needed to help make it the hospital it needs to be, so they turned to a Catholic Organization to help, when they agreed to take over and pump money into the hospital the State AG and local paper started a smear campaign against Catholic morality that turns my stomach. I had no idea how much antiCatholic senitment there was out there. The whole we will take your money but you have to leave you morals and belifes outside attitude is disturbing to me. They were not eliminating access to procedures they were just moving them to nearby clinics outside of their buildings. People could still get their tubes tied and abortions they just could not do it in the facilites the Catholic organization owned. And it would be one thing if the majority of these procedures and births were at University Hospital, but they aren't the majority of these in the area were already being done at Hospitals right down the street or other Suburban or Baptists hospitals nearby. I am not argueing about the procedures themselves I am fine with the compromise, I am not trying to push Catholic Morality on others, but I not cool with the amount of anti Catholic fervor it kick up around town and in the paper, or the idea that Catholic organizations have to forgo their belifes if they come in contact in a helpful way in the community. The local rag already has the blood of hundreds of catholics including some of my ancestors on it's hands from the Bloody Monday riots it provoked in the 1850's sad to see thing don't change much..