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Monday, April 30, 2018

Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part Two: Creating a graduate health education and biotechnology research initiative on the St. Elizabeths campus

Combined with creating an expanded community health and economic development program as outlined in the previous entry:

-- "Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River"

and the follow up entries:

-- (this one) Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St. Elizabeths campus
-- Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program

the construction of a new United Medical Center hospital should be paired with the creation of a biotechnology, health, and science education and research development program on the adjacent St. Elizabeths East Campus

The city has been trying to develop that campus for the past decade, mostly unsuccessfully.

Speculative proposal for a biotechnology, science and medical education and research program at Walter Reed.  A few years ago I fell in with some people who tried to get the city to reconsider its pretty simplistic approach to the redevelopment program for the old Walter Reed medical campus in Northwest DC.

Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C.Instead of tearing down the hospital--at 2.1 million square feet it epitomizes Jane Jacobs' recommendation that city's retain a large stock of old buildings to seed innovation--we called for keeping it and using it as the foundation of creating new medical and health education programs like new medical, pharmacy, and dental schools, among others, and biotechnology and science development programs.

The aim was leverage proximity to the biotechnology sector in Montgomery County, including the National Institutes of Health, hundreds of private sector businesses, the FDA, United Therapeutics which is based in Silver Spring, and health and biotechnology education programs at DC's various universities.

In doing the research for the proposal, I was surprised to find a report out of the University of Baltimore which stated that 40% of the jobs in biotech were held by people with high school, associates, and bachelor degrees.  So there was a great opportunity for workforce development as part of the proposed program.

The proposal also included a multifaceted arts center of a couple hundred thousand square feet (modeled after GoggleWorks in Reading, PA; Cablefactory in Helsinki, La Friche in Marseilles, etc.) a big maker space with analogue and digital equipment, a nonprofit organization incubator and other initiatives.

But for various reasons, this proposal did not move forward.

The city had already committed to the retail and residential program it has, and the people leading the effort for changing the approach didn't have a lot of credibility, although I wrote a killer proposal, which included a justification for how the city could justify shifting to a different path and "changing its mind."

If we had been able to obtain the Letter of Intent that we needed from a particular medical school to commit to moving the proposal forward we probably could have shifted the discussion, especially because that LOI would have meant that the local university we were working with would have gone forward on the project as a partner. Instead they moved on to other projects, including building a new science building on their campus.

The proposal died.

Still, it's a great model of a program that could be implemented for the St. E campus in combination with the creation of a new UMC, which already has a variety of allied health professions teaching at the hospital currently, in association with UDC.

Note that as one example, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, today comprised of a medical school, school of biosciences, and school of allied health professions, grew out of old military barracks buildings adjacent to Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Today the center boasts Nobel Prize winners, over 3,600 faculty and 7,000+ other workers, educating more than 3,000 students, residents, and postgraduate fellows, on an annual budget of more than $1 billion.

Urban research parks and cross-university collaborations. Some universities work to strengthen the commercialization of their scientific research through the creation of allied and adjacent science parks, where units of the institution commingle with firms and nonprofit institutes. Examples include the University Park science-research park at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the biotechnology park in East Baltimore, spearheaded by Johns Hopkins University and Hospital System.

In Greensboro, North Carolina, North Carolina A&T and the local campus of the University of North Carolina have jointly developed the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which anchors an affiliated science park.

Large scale urban research districts with multiple anchors. Complementing the existence of university and medical campuses, some communities have developed large scale collaborative research and practice districts with multiple anchors, such as the University Circle District in Cleveland, anchored by the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University and the Texas Medical Center in Houston. TMC, branding itself as a “leader in collaborative medicine,” is home to 54 health-related institutions including hospitals, multiple medical and nursing schools, research institutes, and other academic programs.

Other cities are working to create their own knowledge districts by developing new collaborative efforts with the participation of multiple academic partners at the outset.

Examples include the University District in Spokane, Washington, where five universities and the community college system are developing a 50-acre higher education and medical district adjacent to the city’s Downtown on the waterfront ("Campus evolution: WSU kicks Spokane development into high gear," Spokane Spokesman-Review), and the aforementioned Cornell University and Technion Institute project in NYC

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a similar district has developed around Kendall Square ("Alexandria Real Estate’s empire grows in Kendall Square: The area’s life sciences boom puts the developer on top," Boston Globe) involving private entities, MIT, and Harvard.

Other examples include the Phoenix Biomedical Campus and the Mars Discovery District in Toronto.

Health-centered redevelopment programs at Brooks City Base and March Air Force Base.  DC has had a hard time making much headway on redeveloping the St. Elizabeths Campus. 

As mentioned, unlike other communities aiming to redevelop old military facilities around business, technology, and science uses to stoke economic and jobs development, the Walter Reed development will focus on residential and retail with far fewer jobs than the 8,000 that were there when the campus was a medical facility. 

(Although separately Children's Hospital was able to carve out a portion of the campus, which they will use for medical research--that space would have been ideal for the development of a medical education campus.)

While researching, I learned about a couple of other initiatives that were similar to what we proposed but weren't referenced during the planning phase for WR.

At the redeveloping Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, the University of the Incarnate Word has created a medical school using the old base hospital as a foundation, and the new school complements the university's programs in pharmacy, optometry, nursing and allied health professions, and physical therapy.

In Riverside County, California, the redevelopment of the March Air Force Base includes the creation of the March Life Care Campus on 236 acres of the base.

When completed and anchored by a 150-bed hospital focused on mental health care, the redevelopment will include emergency care, continuing care, assisted living residences and skilled nursing facilities, research and medical office buildings, retail and restaurants, child care and fitness facilities, a performance space and a hotel. The campus will support 7,200 full-time health care related jobs.

Personalized medicine research initiative in Northern Virginia. The INOVA Hospital System, the dominant hospital group in Northern Virginia, is building a wide-ranging research, education, and clinical treatment program focused on personalized medicine based on genomic analysis and related breakthroughs, on a 117-acre campus in Fairfax County (which formerly housed Exxon-Mobil operations) with 1.2 million s.f. which they purchased for $180 million. The first new project will be the construction of the INOVA Cancer Center, which will cost $200 million for an 180,000 s.f. facility.

The initiative includes an agreement with the University of Virginia to create a new medical school as part of the program.

-- "Behind Inova's $100 million venture fund plan to invest in the region," Washington Business Journal
-- "Personalized medicine could mean big business to DC area companies," Washington Post
-- "Inova lures U-Va. to Northern Virginia with $112 research center," Washington Post

The creation of new medical schools.  While it seems like there are already too many doctors the reality is that there aren't enough primary care physicians.  As a result, new medical schools continue to be created.  Over the past few years,  new medical schools have opened in New Jersey, New York, Florida, California, Missouri, and elsewhere, including the Texas example of UIW.

An advantage of being new is the ability to introduce new curricula and methods.  For example at some of the new medical schools, students immediately go through EMT training ("Trial-by-Fire: Training New Medical School Students as EMTs," Time Magazine) as a way to bring them into contact with patients at the outset of their education and training.

Of course, existing medical schools tend to expand and their impact grows over time ("UB Medical School opens with aim to be 'catalyst for change'," Buffalo News).

Other higher education health programs.  Pharmacy, bioscience and biotechnology, allied health professions, nursing, and other programs could be developed as part of the program. This could involve relocating and/or expanding existing programs and creating new programs and facilities.


Union Square Campus, Greensboro.

In Greensboro, building from the collaboration between NC A&T and UNC, the Union Square initiative downtown is leveraging the city's many institutions of higher education and has developed a new center for local nursing workforce training and academic programs, including the launch of a new doctoral degree granting program, with the major hospital system as the primary healthcare industry partner, in a consolidated facility that opened in 2016 ("A center for nursing: Union Square Campus opens," Winston-Salem Journal).

The next phase of the Union Square Campus development is moving into cyber-security and product design ("Next phase for Union Square Campus: cybersecurity; product design," Greensboro News & Record)

Workforce development.  The University of the District of Columbia has a nursing school and already offers health professions workforce development curricula in classroom facilities at the existing United Medical Center.

Bioscience high school. The bio/technology program could also be extended to the DC Public School system through the repositioning of at least one of the high schools located East of the River as a bio/technology oriented magnet high school, through the development of joint educational programs, comparable to programs developed at the Research Triangle High School in North Carolina, the Biotechnology High School in New Jersey, and the Phoenix Union Bioscience High School, etc.

Other programs.  The Citizen Science Lab in Pittsburgh, a lab facility open to "unaffiliated" citizen scientists would be an interesting component to add ("The Promise of Community Citizen Science," Rand Institute).  The library and information sciences program for the schools and hospital could be developed in a manner also open to the general public (e.g., the San Jose State University Library is combined with the City of San Jose's Central Library).

Shared BioLab Space/Urban Bioscience initiative. In New York City various life sciences and biotechnology development initiatives include a 50,000-square-foot biotech co-working center, created by the NYU Langone Medical Center in conjunction with national shared lab-space provider BioLabs on the space. According to a press release, at the facility:
BioLabs has hosted a seminar series for the startup community, leveraging the vast knowledge of its sponsor and partner network. Topics to date have included CRISPR technology, clinical trials, IPO, licensing, biologics, and VC funding. Pharmaceutical sponsors offer regularly scheduled office hours on site with employees from various department functions to provide in-person access to BioLabs residents and other invited guests.
The City of New York's LifeSci NYC initiative will contribute $5 million to the center.  Separately, the city's Economic Development Corporation has released an RFP to create a life-sciences hub and is offering up to $100 million in land, funding, and other incentives.

Recommendations

In addition to the broader community health and community economic development program suggested for the hospital project, as outlined in the previous entry, "Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River," this entry calls for the development of a biotechnology and health science education, research and business development initiative, adjacent to and part of the planning process for the development of a new United Medical Center hospital on the St. Elizabeths campus in Congress Heights.

1. Create a companion biotechnology and science development initiative.  Create a coordinating organization.  (One model is the Center for Innovative Technology in Northern Virginia.  Biotechnology programs in Phoenix and Greater Kansas City are others.  Consider building a wet lab building as a way to seed the program, to serve as an incubator for developing businesses.

2. Develop a graduate health education campus adjacent to the new United Medical Center, with medical, pharmacy, and allied health professional programs.  Get a letter of intent to create a medical school with a successful existing organization, such as the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, which has opened medical schools outside of Ireland.  Leverage this anchor to seed the development, expansion, and relocation of other health-related academic programs on site.

Another model is the RFP issued by New York City which resulted in the creation of the science and technology program on Roosevelt Island as a collaboration of Cornell University and the Technion Institute of Israel ("High tech and high design, Cornell's Roosevelt Island campus opens," New York Times).

3. Land anchor companies.  Area firms like Sucampo Pharmaceuticals and United Therapeutics ("United Therapeutics Corp. buys two D.C. buildings," Washington Business Journal) should be brought on board as early entry anchors.  UT, based in Silver Spring, has bought some buildings located in DC, and may have some interest in locating some operations in the city.

4. Create a bioscience high school program and companion workforce development programs.

Benefits

Creating an economic development position for the St. Elizabeths campus.  The value of creating a viable economic development program for the St. Elizabeths program is significant, and will contribute both to the economic improvement of the East of the River section of the city as well as the city more generally, in terms of broadening the local economy beyond its dependence on federal government related activity.

Lowering community health and human services costs.  DC spends a few billion dollars each year on health and human services functions.  Creating and delivering a broader community health program and generating more positive health outcomes will have economic benefits to the city in terms of long term reduction in health care costs, while citizens will personally benefit from improved health outcomes. 

Increasing the likelihood of success for the United Medical Center by developing a broad range, innovative, transformational program.  Like Prince George's Hospital, United Medical Center has had negative economic ("DC CFO says United Medical Center is 'functionally bankrupt': 6 things to know," Becker Hospital Review) and health care outcome issues for a number of years. 

Sometimes this has been a function of management, but often it is a result of providing care to an impoverished population that tends to be sicker than average as a result of poverty, often without health insurance.

By adding a broader community health and biomedical research and education program to the new hospital, it becomes more likely that the hospital will be successful and a positive choice for potential patients rather than a choice of last resort.  This makes it more likely it could support the reinstitution of obstetrics programs ("Dangerous mistakes led to shutdown of United Medical Center obstetrics ward," Washington Post) and other higher volume, higher revenue services.

Positive economic impacts. 

Hospital.  For the purposes of this proposal, it is not unreasonable to extrapolate figures based on other economic impact studies and data produced for similar projects.  A hospital of the size proposed (104 in-patient beds) has on average 622 full-time employees and 263 part-time employees. 

According to the American Hospital Association:
each hospital job supports about two more jobs and every dollar spent by a hospital supports roughly $2.30 of additional business activity.
Although this would be a replacement hospital and without the creation of a broader program such as suggested in these blog entries, outside of construction, additional economic impact wouldn't be expected to occur.

Retail program.  The retail program outlined in the previous entry would also have positive economic impact.  A community pharmacy could be included as part of the retail offer, and could be part of the teaching program for the proposed pharmacy school.  Etc.

Biotechnology and science sector.  The science-education program is a different story.  For example, the study commissioned for the New York City Cornell-Technion project projects that 600 companies and 30,000 jobs will be created, with a $23 billion economic impact over 30 years, generating $1.4 billion in tax revenues over that time frame.

While it is hard to track down exact numbers for the economic impact of Montgomery County’s biotech industry beyond the economic impact of federal research facilities, there are 10,000 scientists working at over 300 firms. The NYC study looked at all jobs, while the data reported in Montgomery are only for workers with advanced degrees, understating actual employment.

Another way is to consider the economic experience of particular companies as a way to consider the possibilities that arise from the addition of new firms active in the local economy. For example, United Therapeutics in Silver Spring is a growing company, adding buildings and employees, with $1.33 billion in annual revenue and a market capitalization of more than $8 billion. They pay about $140 million in federal and state income taxes, as well as property taxes to local jurisdictions.

The founders of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals chose to locate in the DC area because of proximity to NIH, FDA, and the US Patent and Trademark Office (in Alexandria). The company, now located in Rockville, has 80 employees, 650 patents, about $120 million in annual revenue, and was recently acquired for more than $1 billion ("Sucampo Pharmacueuticals has officially sold for $1.2 billion to U.K. company," Washington Business Journal).  Although it is not clear if the firm will be absorbed into acquiring firm, in facilities outside of the DC area.

Economic impact of medical and health graduate schools.  Another datum is the economic impact of new medical schools. The economic impact of the new medical school at University of California-Riverside is projected to be $150 million per year when the program is fully operational in 2021. A study for the new medical school at Florida State University in Tallahassee states that $2.50 is generated for each dollar invested, while a similar study for the University of Central Florida in Orlando found that $13 was generated for each dollar of investment.

However, the average economic impact of a mature medical school affiliated with a university is $1.7 billion, based on an annual research program conducted for the American Association of Medical Colleges. But the economic impact for a new medical school when there are existing schools is estimated to be less, $882 million.

Other economic impact data can be calculated for the development of related programs in pharmacy, allied health professions, nursing, etc.  For example a study on the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy found an annual economic impact of more than $50 million, with the support of over 600 jobs, and an ROI of almost $30 per state dollar invested in the school.

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At 9:39 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

$20MM donation to U MD Medical School in Baltimore for biotech, by a local inventor with many medical inventions.

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2018/05/09/university-of-marylands-medical-school-gets-20.html

5/10/2018

 
At 3:13 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

wet lab building being constructed in Bethesda:

https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/office/stonebridgecarras-donohoe-aim-to-bring-booming-life-sciences-market-to-downtown-bethesda-88719

 
At 12:09 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Chapman U in Orange, CA, created a pharmacy school, which just graduated its first class and has rec'd accreditation. It has set a goal of being in the top 10 research schools in the industry within the next 10 years.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/07/03/chapman-universitys-school-of-pharmacy-receives-national-accreditation

 
At 10:37 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Discovery Partners Innovation Institute, 62-acre project by Related Companies in Chicago's South Loop. U of I is the lead university institution there. $500M in state funding. Aim to get corporate and other university partners. Mixed use, waterfront site.

Related Companies considering addition of a station of the heavy rail Red Line, among other infrastructure improvements which include road extensions through this previously industrial site.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-illinois-innovation-lab-director-20180823-story.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ori/ct-biz-south-loop-megadevelopment-ryan-ori-20180510-story.html

8/23/2018

 
At 12:40 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

note that the state funded effort in California to fund stem cell research hasn't produced much so far.

https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2018/stem-cells

I think the same is true for a similar initiative in Texas.

2. Interesting NYT interview, "Battle Plain Against Rare Diseases," 9/11/2018 about more ground up, grass roots almost style interventions focused on rare/orphan diseases. Another research opportunity.

3. NYT article, "A Dire Need in Addiction Medicine," 9/11/2018 about the lack of focus in medical teaching on dealing with addiction. It's an opportunity.

 
At 9:32 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

NYU announces that they will provide free tuition for medical students going forward. The idea is that without debt, they won't have to pick high paying specialties, that more will go into primary care.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/08/16/university-offers-free-tuition-for-all-medical-students/axaPQLeN0pvsYW4AkGbVQN/story.html

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note that follow up commentary made the point that the free tuition should be specifically for students pursuing particular disciplines in need.

 
At 11:10 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

It turns out that Columbia School of Physicians and Surgeons did free tuition first, initiated by a large donation from P. Roy Vagelos, a graduate and former Chairman/CEO of Merck.

http://magazine.columbia.edu/index.php/article/doctors-without-debt

9/29/2018

 
At 9:09 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

New York Medical College (Westchester County) has a biotech on-campus incubator, BioInc@NYMC. Includes office space and shared laboratory space, capital equipment includes carbon dioxide, incubators, shakers, freezer space, fume hoods, and centrifuges.

"Striking Gold in the Sandbox of Science"

http://issuu.com/newyorkmedicalcollege/docs/chironian_nymc_summer_2015_v9?e=0/30912026

 
At 9:19 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at City College of NY is an alternative entry program into medical school, for underrepresented populations. The program has a heavy coverage of "community health and social medicine." Students don't take the MCAT, and take the last two years of medical school at one of six participating schools, including New York Medical College.

http://issuu.com/newyorkmedicalcollege/docs/chironian_nymc_summer_2015_v9?e=0/30912026

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/55351409e4b0ed810cea4f42/t/5590615fe4b0c84f9ac21078/1435525471512/SophieDavis_longform.compressed.pdf

CUNY School of Medicine also offers a two year "health professions mentorship program" for high school juniors.

https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/csom/pipeline-program

The Davis program was started in 1973. And laid the groundwork for CUNY creating a medical school which accepted its first class in 2016.

 
At 7:36 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

"Trend of fewer black male doctors has broader public health impact", Atlanta Journal-Constitution

https://www.myajc.com/news/seeking-remedies-for-lack-black-male-doctors/cPIVIpIduwWc4H4eLhBqTN/

10/16/2018

 
At 7:42 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

The AJC piece reminded me of something I had written before in another context:

... there was a great story in the New York Times Magazine a few years ago about Morehouse College and its program supporting premedical students ("A Prescription for More Black Doctors").

And while not a traditional HBCU, the University of Maryland Baltimore County is a national success working with the same kind of student population as HBCUs ("Freeman Hrabowski's UMBC legacy grows as he celebrates 20 years as president," Baltimore Sun).

 
At 8:47 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Expansion of the kinesiology program at McDaniel College:

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2018/10/15/cool-digs-see-mcdaniel-colleges-new-kinesiology.html

 
At 11:01 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Maryland launches training program to attract Israeli health startups

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/11/01/maryland-launches-training-program-to-attract.html

 
At 1:59 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/11/07/this-rockville-biotech-is-expanding-to-a-new-hq.html

RegenxBio's building is part of a 460,000-square-foot campus that ARE markets as its Alexandria Life Science and Translational Research Center, aimed at biotech and research entities, including current tenants National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Advanced BioScience Laboratories Inc., BioReliance Corp., Sanaria Inc. and The Stanley Medical Research Institute.

 
At 12:44 PM, Anonymous Richard Layman said...

Texas A&M to train all health science students in dealing with overdoses.

https://www.statesman.com/news/20181214/texas-aampm-training-health-students-to-respond-to-opioid-overdoses

 
At 4:59 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

fwiw, I've always thought that somehow DC should try to entice Kaiser Permanente, which has a large health care operation here, but no owned and operated hospitals, to run UMC as a joint venture.

Anyway, they've just announced that they are creating a new medical school in Pasadena, not affiliated with a university, and with free tuition and a heavy focus on clinical rotations starting in the first year.

medschool.kp.org

2/21/2019

 
At 4:21 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

biotech sector development in the University City section of Philadelphia, which is anchored by Penn, Penn Hospitals, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, and Drexel.

https://www.philly.com/news/amicus-gene-therapy-john-crowley-20190226.html

Life Sciences Pennsylvania is a trade group for the sector.

University City Science Center

 
At 3:53 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

DC tech startup, Babyscripts, gets investment from INOVA Health.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/03/19/d-c-pregnancy-app-lands-investment-partnership.html

 
At 2:04 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

nurse in Indianapolis invents device called Guard-a-Port

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2019/03/21/iu-health-nurse-develops-guard-a-port-sons-transfusions/3132891002/

 
At 1:06 PM, Anonymous Richard Layman said...

Sumer 2019 issue of the alumni magazine of Claremont Graduate School has a good article on cutting edge health-related research there.

https://issuu.com/cgunews/docs/cgu-theflame-19summer?fr=sZmI5OTQ3Nzg4

"A New Prescription for Health and Wellness" as well as a feature on research initiatives of various faculty.

8/9/2019

 
At 6:15 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona

2. "I have a PHD in not having money,' NYT 11/26/2019

all the costs for equipment, books, exams, etc. that aren't covered by scholarships for tuition and housing, are especially burdensome for low income students in medical school

 
At 6:11 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

All the more reason to create even more programs aimed at recruiting people of color to the medical professions.

"Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/black-baby-death-rate-cut-by-black-doctors/2021/01/08/e9f0f850-238a-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html

 
At 12:55 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

DC suburban health, biotechnology, data firms getting big investments in response to the pandemic

Silver lining: Pandemic triggers booms in D.C. region’s biotech, data center industries
By Robert McCartney

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pandemic-washington-economy/2021/04/11/63f06174-9954-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html

 
At 4:00 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

The Washington Post: Why a promising diabetes tool never made it to market.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/17/hospitals-venture-capitalists-diabetes-app/

 
At 3:34 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Helene Fuld College of Nursing is an independent nonprofit school in New York. Letter to the editor in the WSJ comments that enrollments and the number of graduates, despite the huge demand, is limited by funding.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nursing-school-helene-fuld-nurse-shortage-education-11631426823

"Education and the Nursing-Shortage Crisis: Qualified nursing-school applicants are rejected for lack of educational resources" 9/12/2021

When hospitals are understaffed, people die. “High Pay for Nurses Fuels Staffing Woes” (U.S. News, Aug. 30) highlights the nursing shortage brought on by the pandemic, which led to crisis pay for nurses willing to travel. Many nurses have left the workforce because of adverse working conditions, and this along with the imminent retirement of baby boomers is leading to one of the most severe nursing shortages in history.

While 176,000 new nurses are produced each year, an additional 80,000 qualified nursing-school applicants are rejected for lack of educational resources, including inadequate faculty numbers and clinical-training sites.

The Helene Fuld College of Nursing graduates 300 registered nurses (RNs) a year. With greater financial resources, this number could be doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. RNs earn an average of $65,000 after graduation. Each graduate helps ease the shortage. The college could readily increase its capacity; all that is needed is money for space and staff.

There are many high-quality nursing resources like Helene Fuld College of Nursing across the country that lack the financial resources to grow. The solution to the nursing crisis is an investment right by your front door.

 
At 1:55 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Biotech/lab space is a hot commodity in Montgomery County.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2021/12/02/pike-rose-tees-up-its-next-phase.html

"Federal Realty tees up next phase of Pike & Rose, swapping in one use for another"

Instead of a 200 unit apartment building, instead they'll be building a 10 story life sciences building of 260K sf.

"The building will be customized to life sciences tenants, Federal Realty said. That includes 15-foot-clear lab floors and 20-foot-clear manufacturing floors, more elevators, loading bays that serve 55-foot trucks, and back-of-house spaces that allow for chemical storage, lab waste handling, air compressors and recycling for biomedical users. It will also have ground-floor retail space, a conference and fitness center and five floors of parking."


Similarly, the former IBM campus in Gaithersburg is getting a life sciences building from Monument Realty.

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2021/12/02/monument-realty-bioscience-gaithersburg.html

 
At 3:41 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Lincoln Property is a Dallas based development firm also active in the DC market. They are doing a project in the Boston Seaport District that will mostly be biotech related lab and office space, with a bit of retail.

Interestingly, the project, which is on state owned property and was the winner of an RFP competition, will include a space for biotech career training.

From the article:

Also included is a two-story life science and technology training center, known as the Pavilion, which is meant to provide STEM training, including to residents of underserved Boston neighborhoods. The life sciences training program Just-A-Start, the Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute and the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council’s nonprofit arm, MassBioEd, are helping to develop the program.

"Take a look at Lincoln Property’s proposed Seaport lab, office project," Boston Business Journal

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2022/01/20/take-a-look-at-lincoln-property-s-proposed-seaport.html

 
At 11:05 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Chicago and N.Y. development firms plan new lab-and-office tower in U. City life-science hotbed.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/sterling-bay-harrison-street-botanic-philadelphia-lab-building-life-sciences-20220201.html

 
At 10:05 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

PhillyVoice.com: Philly's largest life sciences lab planned for Drexel University campus.
https://www.phillyvoice.com/philadelphia-life-sciences-building-drexel-university-city-research/

3/16/22

 
At 9:46 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

"The Philadelphia Inquirer: Penn receives record $125 million to offer free tuition to nurse practitioners to work in underserved communities."

https://www.inquirer.com/news/penn-nursing-gift-leonard-lauder--20220214.html

 
At 4:38 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2022/03/01/Duquesne-University-college-osteopathic-medicine-groundbreaking-fall-2024/stories/202203010106

"Duquesne University breaks ground on new medical school"

The $151 million project, announced in July 2019, is projected to take two years.

Sam Reiman, director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, explained that the new college could help fill a significant gap in health care.

“In 2020, the Association of American Medical Colleges projected the fact that the U.S. would see a shortage of more than 55,000 primary care physicians by 2023,” Mr. Reiman said. “The school of osteopathic medicine will mean more primary care physicians in our communities that need them most, both in urban and rural settings. And it will mean more diverse primary care physicians in our communities, which data also shows will have a meaningful impact on health outcomes.”

When the college opens in fall 2024, it is expected to enroll 85 students with the plan to grow annual enrollment to 170 students beginning in 2026. The college plans to enroll 680 students over all four years by the 2029-2030 school year, according to a recent news release from the university, and employ 60 to 80 faculty members and staff.

 
At 8:37 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)61154-0/fulltext

Comment on an article discussing a concept for a medical school for the 21st century.

 
At 12:57 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Penn, Longfellow to develop $365M life sciences complex in Philadelphia - Philadelphia Business Journal.

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2022/06/09/penn-longfellow-to-develop-365m-life-sciences.html

The University of Pennsylvania has teamed up with Longfellow Real Estate Partners on a $365 million, 455,000-square-foot life sciences and biomanufacturing building at Pennovation Works.

The proposed project at 34th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue is designed with 387,000 square feet of research and lab space that will be in two structures connected by 65,000 square feet of biomanufacturing space. ...

The building at 3401 Grays Ferry Ave. will add to a growing list of life sciences and biomanufacturing projects proposed for Philadelphia particularly in University City and the Philadelphia Navy Yard. For example, Gattuso Development Partners and Drexel University plan to build a $400 million, 500,000-square-foot life sciences research and lab building on the school’s campus at 3201 Cuthbert St. in University City. Around the corner, Spark Therapeutics is planning a $575 million, 500,000-square-foot gene therapy manufacturing facility that will be developed on Drexel’s campus at 30th and Chestnut streets.

2. "GROWTH FORMULA
Philadelphia region's growing life sciences industry ignites a $4 billion building boom"

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2022/05/12/life-sciences-building-boom.html

Philadelphia is undergoing a life sciences building boom with $4 billion in projects in various stages of planning and development, setting the stage to grow the region’s economy with thousands of new jobs and life-saving discoveries.

Those real estate projects involve 11 million square feet of lab and manufacturing space, according to CBRE Inc. data. Projects range in size and scope and are scattered across the region in existing life sciences hubs such as University City and the Philadelphia Navy Yard to growing clusters in New Castle County, Delaware, and Philadelphia’s suburban counties. ...

Not to be overlooked are a series of high-profile projects in New Jersey, which is also experiencing an increase in life sciences development. For example:

Ground was broken in October on the New Jersey Innovation and Technology Hub, a $665 million, 550,000-square-foot development in New Brunswick that will be a center of innovation, research and development, and medical education;
On 13 acres in Jersey City, a project called the Cove is positioning itself as an East Coast hub for life sciences and innovation;
Liberty Science Center broke ground on a $300 million first phase of SciTech Scity, a 30-acre “city of tomorrow” innovation campus in Jersey City;
In Hopewell, BeiGene Ltd. plans to relocate its U.S. headquarters to a 42-acre site where it broke ground April 29 on an initial 400,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.

 
At 9:57 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Penn reaps nearly $1 billion in revenue from COVID vaccine technology.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/penn-covid-vaccine-technology-mrna-royalties-revenue-20220612.html

 
At 10:20 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2022/08/04/dallas-college-wins-nearly-9-million-to-train-north-texas-future-biotech-workers/

"Dallas College wins nearly $9 million to train North Texas’ future biotech workers"

Already, seven major health employers have agreed to create 1,100 combined entry-level positions that pay at least $15 an hour and include benefits.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/health-care/2021/09/02/biotech-is-sprouting-into-dallas-fort-worths-next-big-thing-based-on-seeds-planted-decades-ago/

"Biotech is sprouting into Dallas-Fort Worth’s next big thing, based on seeds planted decades ago"

D-FW now has more than 60 companies and 27,000 jobs in biotechnology and life sciences.

“In order for biotech to be successful, it has to have technology, investors and a network,” Dallas Baptist’s Fletcher said. “The technology obviously has been building, the investors have been coming, and now it’s a matter of developing the network.”

 
At 9:55 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

D.C. is a world-class city without world-class health care

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/12/dc-is-world-class-city-without-world-class-health-care/

 
At 1:34 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.inquirer.com/news/drexel-salus-university-merger-health-sciences-20230613.html

 
At 1:06 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

University of South Florida's Nursing College are bringing accessible and reliable healthcare to the community through a new mobile clinic.

https://sponsored.chronicle.com/were-taking-nursing/

The Mo-Bull Nurse Medical Clinic is a recreational vehicle-turned-state-of-the-art facility with two climate-controlled treatment rooms, a laboratory/diagnostic center with safe vaccine storage, a restroom, a waiting area, and 5G cellular service.

“Nursing students will have the ability to do their public health clinicals, take care of patients, learn from expert faculty, and then, critically, learn to manage social determinants of health,” Menon said.

 
At 7:01 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.tuskegee.edu/news/tuskegee-university-receives-almost-8-million-for-new-cancer-research-facility

Tuskegee University receives almost $8 million for new cancer research facility

Tuskegee University is one step closer to becoming a globally renowned center of excellence in cancer genomics focused on health disparities in underrepresented populations thanks to a $7.93 million grant to build a new biomedical annex to the Carver Research Center facility.

10/19/22

 
At 1:11 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/10/business/lab-space-vacancy-rates-rising/

 
At 4:40 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

IUP names founding dean of proposed medical school

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/healthcare-business/2023/11/16/indiana-university-pennsylvania-medical-school-dean-miko-rose/stories/202311160098

 
At 1:44 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Banner Health (Phoenix). Innovation initiatives at Banner Health primarily focus on making healthcare easier so life can be better for those it serves. The Banner Innovation Group was formed in 2019. Their approach involves testing new tools first on a small scale to gauge their potential value to the organization and their potential to scale more broadly. Banner's long-term strategy involves improving customer experience via the “digital front door” to provide a modern, seamless experience across customers’ web, smartphone, telephone and in-person interactions with the system. ... To continue identifying new technology tools to test, Banner has established multi-year partnerships with promising technology companies that align with its overall strategic direction.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 1:45 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Baptist Health South Florida (Coral Gables). Since its founding in 2019, Baptist Health Innovations has strategically molded itself into a high-throughput, high-impact business unit by fostering a culture of pervasive innovation throughout Baptist Health's 27,000 employees. The Innovations unit has taken on hundreds of projects, including forging a master IP policy, working on 203 inventions, executing 669 transactions, creating a robust licensing revenue stream, forming a fellowship for innovation to train diverse professionals to commercialize healthcare innovations, and entering an affiliation agreement with Florida International University. In addition, they have entered codevelopment collaboration with new companies, created a $30 million innovation fund, led a successful startup healthtech idea competition, and much more.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 1:48 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Children’s Nebraska (Omaha)... Children's has launched Bright Foundry, LLC, which is a healthcare business incubator designed to support innovation by funding winners of innovation competitions. ... Children’s Nebraska's upcoming expansion, The Mammel Innovation Center, will be a centralized innovation hub focused on digital health, telemedicine, 3D printing and visualization, virtual reality, AI and medical devices.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 1:49 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Cleveland Clinic. Cleveland Clinic comprises over 72,000 researchers, scientists, clinicians and caregivers, each of whom contributes the system's culture of innovation. With this focus on creative solutions, Cleveland Clinic Innovations was created in 2000 and has been driving invention and commercialization ever since. The program has resulted in over 2,4000 patents, more than 800 licenses and over 100 startups. The team has cultivated experience in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and digital health, allowing leaders to have a hand in the development and optimization in the solutions that go to market. Recent life-changing innovations from Cleveland Clinic include the High-Line system for safer IV lines, a precise endovascular navigation technology for safer procedures, and a vaccine for triple-negative breast cancer that is currently in trial.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 1:51 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Hackensack Meridian Health (Edison, N.J.). Hackensack Meridian Health has innovation at its core, and fosters this value in all of its branches and endeavors. The Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation includes 29 laboratories, 185 scientists and $175 million in research commitments across five years. Meanwhile, Hackensack Meridian Health's HMH Research Institute is a connected research ecosystem accelerating discovery, innovation, and translation of scientific breakthroughs to address unmet clinical needs. Internal and external innovation spans precision medicine, new device development, new product and solution development, new business model development, and the operation of network business units. Outside of lab-based research and discovery, HMH applies team member wisdom through innovation challenges that allow innovative ideas from all departments to be heard.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 1:56 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Mass General Brigham (Boston). Mass General Brigham Innovation blends business development and investment leaders with medical inventors, thought-leaders and entrepreneurs. The innovation team handles the commercial application of ideas or discoveries stemming from Mass General Brigham's 80,000 employees. The program's mission is to offer the support needed to create the healthcare treatments and products that better the lives of patients. Alprolix, which helps prevent bleeding in those with hemophilia B, Entyvio, which aids those with Crohn's disease, and Victoza, a noninsulin medication for those with type 2 diabetes, are just a few of the treatments Mass General Brigham helped develop.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 1:57 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

MedStar Health (Columbia, Md.). MedStar Health, the largest healthcare provider in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region, strives to be the trusted leader in caring for people and advancing health — and the MedStar Institute for Innovation has played an important role in that organizational vision for nearly 15 years. Supported by more than 175 talented team members and exceptional collaborators, MedStar Institute for Innovation explores, builds, and scales new ideas that shape the future success of MedStar Health. The institute drives new capabilities and operations — and works to scale and embed innovation within the business — in support of the system’s patients, communities, priorities, and more than 300 care locations. MedStar Health Simulation Training & Education Lab creates, deploys and commercializes education products used by healthcare organizations in more than 40 states, including innovation in virtual and augmented reality, adaptive learning, and more. Its innovation laboratories develop and deploy new capabilities in care, information and business domains, such as remote patient monitoring, patient engagement solutions, intelligent automation, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, 3D printing and venture investing.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 1:59 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

MemorialCare (Fountain Valley, Calif.). ... The 30-year MemorialCare Innovation Fund has partnered with over 50 privately held, early- to mid-stage companies, offering a valuable gateway to accelerate advances in healthcare products and services through investments in healthcare IT and medical device innovation.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 2:03 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

OSF HealthCare (Peoria, Ill.). OSF Healthcare's OSF Innovation, launched in 2016, fosters new ways to support innovative thinking, including launch of local innovation hubs and challenges to elicit over 550 employee ideas to improve care throughout OSF. Innovation Academic Incubator’s total endowment is $135 million, with over $14.3 million awarded to 198 breakthrough projects in partnership with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Chicago, Bradley University and Illinois State University. OSF Ventures invested in 31 companies and has $250 million in total assets under management, providing patients and providers early access to emerging technologies. Digital solutions born in OSF Innovation and operationalized in OSF OnCall doubled mammogram screenings, identified 286,000 patients with chronic conditions for intervention, and enrolled over 100 women in the pregnancy and postpartum program. OSF was named among Fortune’s most innovative companies for 2023.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 2:05 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Ralph H. Johnson VA Health Care System (Charleston, S.C.). The Ralph H. Johnson VA Health Care System supports and empowers employees to develop and implement new solutions that improve care delivery for veterans. Innovation highlights include Charleston Innovates!, a ground-up program that leverages the firsthand knowledge of frontline employees to develop new solutions, the Spark-Seed Spread Innovation Investment Program, which accelerates employee-inspired innovations, a 4D bioprinting facility, a 3D innovation center, the Lowcounty Center for Veterans Research, and more. The 3D innovation center has developed three groundbreaking FDA-approved medical devices, while the 4D bioprinting program was launched, aimed at printing tissue. The system is also spearheading the launch of "VA Next Level'', an AI health coach. The innovation ecosystem has impacted care, employee satisfaction, and employee engagement.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 2:07 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

University Hospitals (Cleveland). The University Hospitals health system created University Hospitals Ventures to identify, develop, and deploy creative innovations that drive definitive, sustainable and scalable value within healthcare. UH Ventures boasts over 400 invention disclosures, more than 500 patents, 60-plus licenses, over 40 outside-in collaborations, and an 18-company portfolio. Internally, UH Ventures hosts innovation days, where departments generate ideas in a collaborative environment. There is also an annual UH Ventures Call for Innovations, which asks all UH caregivers to submit both their problem statements and proposed solutions. UH Ventures also forges relationships between early stage companies and UH caregivers to launch trials and pilots as well as de-risk new products. In 2023, University Hospitals launched the Veale Initiative for Health Care Innovation with the aim of piloting groundbreaking innovations and technology. University Hospitals was honored by Fortune as one of 'America’s Most Innovative Companies' and the No. 1 health system for innovation within Ohio in 2023.

Becker's Hospital Review
12/6/2023

 
At 1:23 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

About Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston, switching its affiliation with a major hospital system and building a dedicated cancer hospital.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/09/business/dana-farber-ceo-laurie-glimcher-has-always-been-trailblazer-risk-taker

 
At 8:39 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I didn't know about the Drew University of Medicine and Science in LA. After many years, it finally created its own medical school, focused on serving disadvantaged communities.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/first-medical-school-class-charles-drew-university-diversity-doctors-los-angeles

 
At 4:23 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.courant.com/2024/01/05/a-mans-brain-surgery-at-uconn-cost-almost-76000-donors-paid-it-to-give-him-time-without-pain/

A man’s brain surgery at UConn cost almost $76,000. Donors paid it to give him time ‘without pain.’

Orphan drugs as a research opportunity.


A man who came to UConn Health seeking surgery for his rare ear disorder is on his way to healing and his dream of becoming an airline pilot.

Rafael Azevedo, of Brazil, suffers from tympanic plexus neuralgia and intermediate nerve neuralgia, causing what he has called “the worst pain in the world.”

His wife, Luana Diniz Tormin, spoke at the United Nations to advocate for better treatment for rare diseases and more funds for care.

The couple came to UConn because of the ability of surgeons, Dr. Ketan Bulsara and Dr. Daniel Roberts, co-directors of the Cranial Nerve and Brainstem Disorder Program, to treat his conditions.

However, without American health insurance for the expensive surgeries, Azevedo had to rely on donors to raise the money.

 
At 9:27 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Health science high schools

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/13-major-health-systems-partner-with-high-schools-in-250m-bloomberg-initiative.html

13 major health systems partner with high schools in $250M Bloomberg initiative

1/16/2024

The following health systems are the inaugural high school partners:

Mass General Brigham (Boston)
Education partner: Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers (Boston Public Schools)

Atrium Health (Charlotte, N.C.)
Education partner: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas)
Education partner: Uplift Education

Duke Health (Durham, N.C.)
Education partner: Durham Public Schools

Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston)
Education partner: Aldine Independent School District

HCA Healthcare TriStar, Vanderbilt Health, Ascension and National HealthCare Corporation (Nashville, Tenn.)
Education partner: Nurses Middle College

Ballad Health (Johnson City, Tenn.)
Education partner: Northeast Tennessee Public Schools (six sites)

Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)
Education partner: New York City Public Schools

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia)
Education partner: Mastery Schools

University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System and other state health systems and hospitals (Demopolis, Ala.)
Education partner: State of Alabama (contingent upon state funding)

 
At 1:56 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2024/01/08/kaigham-gabriel-bioforge-hazelwood-green-cmu-apollo/stories/202401080137

‘A perfect fit’: Pitt hires former CMU professor to spearhead its BioForge development at Hazelwood Green

Kaigham J. Gabriel, a former Carnegie Mellon University professor, has been appointed as chief executive officer of BioForge, the $250 million University of Pittsburgh biomanufacturing facility planned at Hazelwood Green in Hazelwood.

Overall, the BioForge complex is expected to total about 230,000 square feet. It is funded with the help of a $100 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The grant is the largest for a single project in the foundation’s history.

 
At 1:18 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/michael-dowling-on-northwells-new-high-school-theres-only-a-workforce-shortage-of-the-future-if-you-dont-do-anything-today.html

1/19/2024

In New York, Northwell Health gives millions of dollars each year to area schools and students. Now the system is partnering with New York City Public Schools and Bloomberg Philanthropies to build a new high school in Queens devoted to healthcare education, marking a big step forward in the direction the health system has worked toward for years.

... In 2022, Northwell signed on as an anchor employer in partnership with New York City Public Schools to combine classroom and work-based learning in partnership with four high schools in Queens and Manhattan. Additionally, the system invests $5 million in its Northwell Community Scholars Program, in which students in seven economically disadvantaged, underrepresented school districts receive mentorship, college preparation, career guidance, shadowing and internship opportunities and financial support to pursue associate's degrees or certificates at area community colleges.

Others initiatives include Northwell's student ambassador program, in which students receive training to communicate with peers about topics directly impacting youth health; numerous medical school pipeline programs, of which 100% of participants have gone to college or a professional healthcare program; and a 10-week management internship for college juniors to gain exposure to healthcare administration and leadership.

 
At 12:35 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/technology/northwestern-clean-tech-spinout-heads-fulton-market

Northwestern clean-tech spinout heads for Fulton Market

1/25/24

A Northwestern University spinout is taking space in the same Fulton Market building as the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago and life-sciences incubator Portal Innovations.
Mattiq, a clean-tech company, leased 17,000 square feet of office and lab space, or about half a floor, at 400 N. Aberdeen St., one of two buildings dubbed Fulton Labs.

The company will move to the new space in September from its current facility at the Illinois Science & Technology Park in Skokie.

Fulton Market has become a hot destination for life-science companies since Trammell Crow began building wet-lab space in a neighborhood that already was popular with technology companies such as Google.

 
At 1:58 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/the-only-us-high-school-inside-a-hospital.html

The only US high school inside a hospital

1/26/24

Cleveland-based MetroHealth system touts the first and only high school to be located inside a hospital.

Lincoln West Science and Health High School, established in 2016, is a year-round school that has a 90% graduation rate, and 25% of its students graduate with a professional certification. In addition, all students graduate with skill-based medical certifications such as CPR. The school graduated its first class in 2019.

Juniors and seniors take classes within MetroHealth hospital while freshmen and sophomores take classes a few blocks away. Each grade has a hospital focus for the year — freshmen get an introduction to medical terminology and careers while seniors participate in internship programs within the system, for example. The lower classes receive monthly education courses on healthcare while upperclassmen have the opportunity to start working in the field and earn professional certifications.

The program exposes students to a broad level of disciplines, from physicians to nurses to technicians to researchers to mental health workers to pharmacists.

"While they're still in high school, students can transition into patient care nursing assistant roles right in our hospitals," Airica Steed, EdD, RN, president and CEO of MetroHealth, told Becker's. "There's similar programs for our ambulatory setting, medical assistants. In fact, we actually just graduated our first cohort of self-trained medical assistant programs."

Looking ahead, MetroHealth is trying to integrate all its school outreach programs to provide more opportunities to students outside of Lincoln West. It is also in "deep talks" about adding a licensed practical nursing program to the high school so students can graduate as LPNs.

"There's endless opportunities for growth," Dr. Steed said. "We are solving a large [staff shortage] challenge if we can scale this across the nation."

Dr. Steed said there are practical models nationwide that other hospitals could follow and customize. She advised that the first step is to collaborate with key players such as the local school district and concentrate efforts to build the program in a successful way.

 
At 12:16 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/25/business/apprenticeships-biomanufacturing-jobs

Biomanufacturing apprenticeships offer new way into biotech

About a dozen workers, many without four-year college degrees, gathered at Northeastern University’s campus in Burlington for a four-month training program sponsored by the nonprofit Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation, or MassBioEd.

... The biotech industry offers a 21st-century version of the ladder manufacturing provided
previous generations. After completing 16 weeks of training in the spring and summer, each
worker would be placed as an apprentice for 12 months in a biomanufacturing plant.

... Training programs are sprouting up across the state to prepare workers for jobs with such titles as cell engineer and formulation technician. The biotech council, known as MassBIO, next month will open Bioversity in Dorchester, an eight-week training program for residents with a high-school degree. Other programs are run by groups such as LabCentral and Year Up and even regional organizations.

 
At 12:27 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

How tens of thousands of Black U.S. doctors simply vanished

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/22/uche-blackstock-legacy-black-doctors/

Discrimination embedded in medicine’s early framework endures today

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/06/medical-school-discrimination-black-doctors/

 
At 5:11 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Future fixers: Local programs work to diversify the medical field
From building on the legacy of the Freedom House to encouraging interest from a young age, creative options aim to close health equity gaps

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2024/02/25/pittsburgh-programs-diversity-health-care/stories/202402250033

Research shows that health outcomes, such as cardiovascular health and fetal mortality, improve when patients see doctors of their same race. They’re more likely to adhere to guidelines and to develop trust.

Finding a provider of the same race is a challenge for many Black Americans who, while making up 12.1% of the U.S. population, as of 2021, represent just 5.7% of all U.S. doctors, according to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges from the same year.

“We know that population health is a population-level problem,” said Trevor Mathey, project manager for the Freedom House program. “We need a health system that is representative of the workforce population.”

Many Black Allegheny County residents face challenging health profiles due in part to systemic racism and poverty, with higher overdose death and maternal mortality rates compared to their white counterparts. In Pittsburgh, Black residents face a lower life expectancy, and are two times as likely to experience fetal death during childbirth than white residents, per a 2019 report from the city’s Gender Equality Commission. More recent data from the Commission has not been released, but other research suggests the COVID-19 pandemic worsened health disparities.

 
At 5:11 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

... Freedom House program
Its moniker paying homage to the first EMT service in America, which Black paramedics started in the 1960s in the Hill District, the six-week Freedom House Program teaches EMT basics, including CPR and first aid, and allows students to shadow health care professionals, such as patient care technicians and medical assistants.

Sponsored in part by UPMC Health Plan and Partners4Work, the program gives students a stipend as well as necessities for success, such as transportation assistance (bus passes, gas cards) and a laptop, and it pairs them with a mentorship with a health care professional.

... Talent Attraction Program
Started as a pilot program in August 2022 at Allegheny Health Network Jefferson Hospital, the Talent Attraction Program also aims to increase the diversity of the health care workforce. It’s focused on “allied health” positions, such as ultrasound and lab technicians and phlebotomists.

Funded by the Highmark Foundation, the program covers tuition expenses for enrollees to take relevant courses at CCAC as well as other costs, such as for transportation. As part of TAP, applicants are given a part-time job with AHN and a mentor, and they are guaranteed employment at the hospital system upon graduation.

“You don’t have to be an underrepresented minority to get into the TAP program. What you have to be is dedicated to communities that have greater health disparities,” said Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, senior vice president and chief clinical diversity, equity and inclusion officer at AHN and the academic chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel University.

... The Birthing Hut
Iyanna Bridges said she could have benefited from health care workers who looked like her. After struggling to access pregnancy and birth resources via traditional routes, the 33-year-old founded The Birthing Hut in 2018.

“I wasn’t presented with options,” she said. “I wasn’t listened to, I wasn’t heard, I wasn’t trusted.”

She now owns her own doula service and seeks grant money to provide doula training to other Blacks in the area. “I wanted to be that resource for other women,” she said.

.. Young Scholars Program
And when those kiddos grow up, Larkins-Pettigrew wants to get them excited early about medicine.

AHN has initiated the Young Scholars Program, which will get kids in front of medical professionals and learning about medicine as part of an exclusive six-week program. Ten students will be chosen from an application process — one cohort of K–7, and another for 8th grade to high school — and learn life skills, leadership and self-affirmation, “all those things that help build confidence,” Larkins-Pettigrew said. The older cohort will shadow medical professionals and take trips to health care centers.

The pilot program, starting in June, will be a partnership with the Urban Pathway School, and members of the older cohort will be given a stipend for the course.

 
At 5:34 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Northwell's first-of-kind healthcare high school to open in 2025

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/northwell-announces-site-for-new-high-school.html

The Northwell School of Health Sciences will be established in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens, one of the city's five boroughs, with a focus on graduating high school students into high-demand healthcare roles with family-sustaining pay, according to a Feb. 14 news release. The school is slated to open in fall 2025 and serve about 900 students at full capacity.

Northwell, a New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based health system with 85,000 associates, is among 13 major systems partnering with public schools for a $250 million initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. As part of the initiative, health systems are partnering with 10 public school systems in urban and rural areas across the U.S. to create healthcare career-focused high schools.

Northwell and New York City Public Schools will co-develop the Northwell School of Health Sciences curriculum, according to the release.

Curriculum will offer academic programming, specialized healthcare classes, work-based learning, and the opportunity to earn credentials and certifications along with traditional high school learning and diplomas, the entities said. Graduates will then have opportunities to fill high-demand roles in nursing, diagnostic medicine (including lab technician and technologist roles), physical therapy and behavioral health.

https://www.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/northwell-school-of-health-sciences-announced

 
At 6:23 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/healthcare-business/2024/02/08/university-pittsburgh-carnegie-mellon-university-mark-murcko-biotech/stories/202402080079

'Science is just bloody difficult,' biotech veteran tells Pittsburgh entrepreneurs

BioHybrid Solutions is a Carnegie Mellon University spinout that was founded in 2016 by Alan Russell and fellow CMU scientists Kris Matyjaszewski and Antonina Simakova. The company, which is developing new ways of getting proteins into cells as medicines, has raised $2.9 million in capital and employs 18 people.

BioHybrid Solutions is a portfolio investment company of North Shore-based Innovation Works, a state-funded agency that financially supports startups.

Success in starting a biotech company begins with the science underpinning the startup, which “has to be stellar” and “address a real medical need,” Mr. Murcko told the group. Lean management is also key along with a board that doesn’t micromanage.

“A board can completely screw up a company,” Mr. Murcko said.

Moreover, “avoiding stupid mistakes” will save startups from having to dig themselves out of “messes they’ve created,” he said. “And of course, there has to be enough money” from investors, who may prefer one city over another for a new company to set up operations, say, Silicon Valley over Pittsburgh.

... Life science entrepreneurs have to clearly identify the patients who will be helped by their products and be aware that “manufacturing is way more complicated than you think it is,” Mr. Murcko said. Biotech startups would be smart to have their own in-house labs, which allow research flexibility, rather than relying on contract research organizations.

Developing new medicines and medical devices doesn’t happen quickly, Mr. Murcko said, so entrepreneurs and investors should think in terms of a 10-year timeframe.

“We need to all understand the time horizon” and the “valley of death between labs and the market” when investment capital often lags, he said.

 
At 6:47 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

The Florida Atlantic Biotech Bridge program in the University’s Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (CMBB) is one of the newest and most innovative pathways designed to connect students with industry experts and career opportunities. The CMBB was established in 1997 to prepare students for life sciences careers and to support the local biotech industry.

With more than 700 businesses in the University’s service area specializing in biotechnologies, medical devices and pharmaceuticals, companies are engaging with Florida Atlantic Biotech Bridge to offer distinct student internships that lead to a lifetime of success.

 
At 6:48 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Another field with high demand is nursing, and Florida Atlantic’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing is working to address critical shortages with highly skilled, workforce-ready graduates. Students gain hands-on experience through a variety of academic service-learning opportunities, including those at the college’s two FAU/NCHA Community Health Centers in West Palm Beach and the Louis and Anne Green Memory & Wellness Center on the Boca Raton campus. These facilities benefit the community by addressing health inequities for families who otherwise could not access quality care, while preparing students for careers as competent and compassionate nurses.

The success of the college is evident in its 95% retention rate and 87% four-year graduation rate for students in the “freshman direct” track. Additionally, nearly 100% of low-income students who graduate from the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing move up at least one income bracket within a year of graduating.

 
At 9:17 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/03/05/city-colleges-chicago-nursing-school-university-chicago

City Colleges brings back South Side nursing school
A new facility in Washington Park will return health care training to an area that lost it years ago

City Colleges brings back South Side nursing school

Reporting by David Struett

Nursing school planned: City Colleges of Chicago plans to open a nursing school program on the South Side, bringing health care training back to an area that lost it years ago.

Based in Washington Park: The community college system announced Tuesday it will build a clinical training facility — called the Malcolm X College Learning Center — in the Washington Park neighborhood. It’s a joint effort with the University of Chicago, which plans to open an adjacent clinical lab. The two buildings are expected to break ground in 2025 and open in the 2026-2027 school year.

New chapter: City Colleges began consolidating its nursing programs in 2014, eventually closing programs at all of its campuses except for Malcolm X College on the Near West Side. The consolidation led to a drop in nursing enrollment from about 1,500 to 330 students in 2018, officials said at the time. When fully operating, the new Learning Center could serve up to 800 students a year.

 
At 10:52 PM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

https://www.inquirer.com/health/pcom-wistar-graduate-cancer-program-20240321

PCOM and The Wistar Institute are launching a cancer biology graduate program

 

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