Medical Staff Update

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VOLUME 25 • NO. 9 • OCTOBER 2001


		Medical Staff GENERAL MEETING Thursday, Nov. 1, location TBD 5 p.m. refreshments 6:15 p.m. business meeting

		JAZZ DOC & FRIENDS Palo Alto Medical Foundation internist Terrigal Burn was a featured performer at a September Bing Music Series presentation in the hospital's atrium. Burn played a selection of Latin jazz rhythms with local bass player Seward McCain and saxophonist Gordon Fels, not shown.

New hospital budget approved. . . Web sites launched Form Ethics panel - When monetary and medical interests collide MediBase projects seeks duplicate medical records Nurses and hospitals agree to contract extension Three associate deans appointed for academic affairs New Cancer Center Breaks Ground September 11 - Late night visit saves emergency physician New training PAST ISSUES (Search archives) Web Design: Tyler Holland Joanna McClean MacWorks Graphics Studio

	NEW HOSPITAL BUDGET APPROVED; OUTLOOK APPEARS BRIGHTER
	Efforts to improve revenues and reduce costs at Stanford Hospital and Clinics have resulted in lower-than-expected losses in the last fiscal year and a 2001-02 budget that officials say is far brighter than the scenarios envisioned a few months ago. Although final numbers are still being computed for the 2001 fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31, officials put the hospital's losses at $28 million. Last month, the hospital's board of directors approved a 2001-02 budget with operating expenses of roughly $741 million, with an expected loss of $9.8 million "Considering what we were facing, that gets us pretty close to reaching a break-even point," said Mike Peterson, interim president and CEO.