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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2003
Hospital wins high acclaim
BY MICHELLE WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
UNC Hospitals once again
ranks among the best medical cen
ters in the country, according to
U.S. News & World Report.
The magazine’s 14th annual edi
tion of “America’s Best Hospitals”
recognizes 203 medical centers in
17 different specialities, such as
cancer, digestive disorder and
gynecology.
UNC Hospitals, ranked every
year for the past decade, made the
top 50 list in eight of the 17 cate
gories.
“We just have outstanding fac
ulty and nurses, and we work very
hard,” said Jeffrey Houpt, dean of
the School of Medicine and CEO of
the Health Care System.
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sign 10, you hope you get five. It’s a
contingency plan of oversigning by
a little bit to make sure your roster
stays intact to make sure you can
win year in and year out.”
Like in the NBA, baseball teams
have hordes of money to shower on
young players, and Sferra accepts
that losing a committed player is
simply a part of college baseball.
“If Major League Baseball wants
to pay a kid $1 million, we say,
‘Congratulations, good luck to you
and invest wisely,’” Sferra said.
“How many times has somebody
waved $1 million in front of you?”
Getting the call
While baseball and basketball
coaches find out at the last minute
when a player decides to go pro, col
lege soccer coaches generally have
time to plan for player absences.
Elite male and female collegians
often play for U.S. national teams,
too. During a world championship
year, such as 2003, college coaches
have to step aside when a national
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ground." He said obesity is result
ing in sll7 billion in medical costs
and lost productivity.
He added that the country
annually suffers $132 billion in
costs associated with Type 2 dia
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said, only elderly people were
afflicted with Type 2 diabetes
but more and more children now
are developing the disease due to
their sedentary lifestyles.
Zeisel said “Get Kids in Action”
will consist of three major compo
nents. A research phase will go into
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In addition, 52 of the hospital’s
doctors were recognized by various
organizations as some of the top
physicians in the nation.
Karen McCall, vice president of
public affairs and marketing at the
hospital, added that UNC was
identified as one of four academic
medical centers that excels in both
research and primary care.
“Because of the mission and
amount of research and how it gets
translated to medical care, (it)
means that we are innovative,” she
said.
What further sets UNC
Hospitals apart from the rest of the
pack is how it combines teaching
with patient care to allow patients
to select from a wide range of
options, the report said.
coach calls a player up to the squad.
However, the national team
schedules are usually set at the
beginning of the calendar year,
allowing college coaches plenty of
time to plan for a player’s absence.
This fall, North Carolina
women’s soccer coach Anson
Dorrance will likely be without
defender Catherine Reddick for the
first half of the season. Reddick is
a virtual lock to play for the United
States in the FIFA Women’s World
Cup, Sept. 21-Oct. 12 in the U.S..
“We’re already prepared for (los
ing Reddick),” Dorrance said. “It’s
not as complicated as everyone
thinks. On every roster, you’ve got
reserve personalities and ambi
tious, talented kids who are dying
to play. So all that happens is a kid
that normally wouldn’t have a
chance to start or play as much is
now thrust into that role.”
UNC men’s soccer coach Elmar
Bolowich will also be without key
players during the 2003 campaign.
Freshmen Corey Ashe, Michael
Harrington and Jamie Watson will
be unavailable until September,
while sophomore Ford Williams
will miss the postseason because of
four North Carolina counties and
explore potential plans for fighting
obesity and ways in which families,
communities and doctors can
work together.
The project’s educational phase
will develop tools for obesity and
health education, Zeisel said, and
an outreach program will provide
student athletes with opportuni
ties to motivate children to be
more active.
Andy Horrow, Gatorade’s direc
tor of communications, said UNC
and his company are “well
aligned” as partners to help the
public understand that childhood
obesity is a direct result of inactiv
News
In addition, Houpt said, recent
program expansions, the construc
tion of new facilities such as the
Women’s Hospital and the
Children’s Hospital, and the hiring
of new department heads have led
to UNC’s success.
The research areas that made
the top 50 were the programs in
cancer (24th), digestive disorders
(18th), ear, nose and throat (37th),
geriatrics (48th), gynecology
(21th), hormonal disorders (37th),
kidney disease (36th) and respira
tory disorders (42th).
In order for a hospital to make
the rankings, it needed to be a
member of the Council of Teaching
Hospitals, have affiliation with a
medical school or have at least nine
of the 17 specified items of medical
separate international tourna
ments with U.S. national teams.
To Bolowich, the key to making
up for personnel losses is depth.
“What I try to do is have 18 capa
ble players on our squad,” Bolowich
said. “In that event we can afford to
have one or two injuries and one or
two players at the same time leav
ing the program for a short period.”
Dorrance and Bolowich, like all
college coaches, are in the precari
ous situation of fielding the
strongest team possible, while help
ing players reach their best. Part of
becoming the best sometimes
means playing for a national team.
“Asa coach, you’re certainly going
to be sensitive to their ambitions,”
Dorrance said. “Now let’s face it:
Part of their ambitions are to make
these national team rosters. So as a
collegiate coach, you’re participat
ing in the success of their goals by
helping them every way you can.”
Finding a fix
There are no signs that college
coaches will get a reprieve in trying
to keep their rosters full of the best
talent at all times, but is there a sit
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and drinking.
Horrow said the $4 million
grant essentially was defined by
what the School of Public Health
thought it needed to ensure the
success of the partnership.
“It’s not going to sell Gatorade,
and we’re OK with that,” Horrow
said. “We feel great about it, in
fact.”
The partnership between UNC
and Gatorade will count toward
the $l.B billion goal of the
University’s Carolina First cam
paign.
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The categories are broken down
further by the medical center’s rep
utation, mortality ratio, nursing
care and technology availability.
McCall said last week’s opening
of the UNC Heart Center in
Meadowmont, the hospital’s new
“stork entrance” and the fact that
the digestive diseases program
continues to lead the Southeast in
clinical trials and research will help
UNC maintain its status as a med
ical leader.
Houpt added that the hospital
will continue to improve in a num
ber of different areas. “We will put
a lot of efforts in patient safety.”
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uation in which everybody wins?
“I don’t know if there’s a total
fair situation, but there has to be
stability for the coaches,” Stansbury
said. “Everyone can win a little bit,
but I don’t see a solution in the
near future.”
Stansbury said he’d like to see his
sport’s draft rules mirror baseball’s.
In baseball, once a player enrolls at
a university, he is not eligible for the
draft until after his junior season.
That means baseball coaches
know they have a player for at least
three years. With extensive pro
scouting in baseball, coaches are
aware well in advance if they’re
going to lose a player to the draft.
Since soccer is played all year
around the world, soccer coaches
aren’t going to get much help here.
Regardless of any changes, there
will never be an end to college ath
letes prematurely departing school.
But if all coaches share Dorrance’s
perspective, then their programs
will do just fine. Said Dorrance, “It’s
just part of the price you pay when
you recruit the elite athlete."
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next project or venture that will
add something for our students or
will add something for the faculty.”
Cole said his plan is to remain
on the school’s faculty after relin
quishing his current post. Even as
he nears the point of stepping
down, he said, he will work for the
continued innovation of the
school. “We have a wonderful rep
utation, and I want to do every
thing in the next two years that I
can do to further that reputation."
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Committee begins
dean, CEO search
BY GREG HORN
STAFF WRITER
The UNC Health Care board of
directors announced Monday that
it has formed a committee to
search for its next chief executive
officer and the next dean of the
UNC-Chapel Hill School of
Medicine.
Jeffrey Houpt, who currently
holds the positions, announced in
May that he will be stepping down
next year. Houpt was the first CEO
of the UNC Health Care System
when it was created in 1998.
Under pressure to have anew
CEO by next May, the board of
directors and the UNC-CH Board
of Trustees created the 13-member
committee, headed by Charles
Sanders, former chairman and
CEO of Glaxo Inc.
“(The boards) have put together
a qualified committee, ” said Karen
McCall, vice president of public
affairs and marketing for UNC
Health Care.
Provost Robert Shelton said the
search will prove difficult because
the position is multifaceted,
encompassing not only the posts of
dean and CEO but also UNC-CH
vice chancellor for medical affairs.
The new dean must “under
stand academic medicine in a
national context of health-care
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If you don’t have the money, you
have to be responsible.”
However, Fulk said the initial
proposal for the project called for
both the cancer center and stroke
center to be funded with a 2 1/2
cent increase in the cigarette tax.
“But then we were told the tax pro
posal would not fly in the House,
so then we looked into a different
source of revenue,” she said.
That different source ended up
being North Carolina’s share of a
national tobacco settlement, which
Black said was “not a reliable
source.”
Black also mentioned that the
proposal, which was part of a “tech
nical corrections” bill, shouldn’t
have been the only major item
under debate and that House lead
ers requested Basnight to first
“wrap up the few things we had left.”
“There wasn’t that much left on
the table,” he said. “Our members
were ready to go home. We had
done all that we could do for this
session.”
Despite the cancer center
impasse, lawmakers were able to
agree on a bill pushed by Gov.
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delivery in this era of managed
care,” he said. In addition, a candi
date needs to understand the spe
cific context of North Carolina in
terms of the priorities of the state
and its lawmakers, Shelton said.
He mentioned as an example
the impasse in the N.C. General
Assembly about the proposed SIBO
million UNC-CH cancer center,
when the House walked away from
negotiations. “(The) CEO will be a
strong voice in cases like that one.”
Houpt also said the position
requires versatility and the “abili
ty to balance the teaching and the
research.”
According to a press release, the
search committee will select two
finalists and then will recommend
them to Chancellor James Moeser,
the board of directors and the
UNC-system Board of Governors.
UNC-system President Molly
Broad will give the final approval.
McCall said she hopes the com
mittee will select the finalists by
the first quarter of next year.
And while the May deadline is
ambitious, Shelton said, he has
faith in the committee.
“lam pretty confident they will
get it done.”
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Mike Easley that shifts S7OO mil
lion in highway money to road
maintenance and public transit
during the next two years. “The
roads need help,” Black said.
He added that the bill did not
pass without some debate because
of an amendment proposed by
Basnight. The amendment would
have required the Department of
Transportation to establish a ferry
service in the Outer Banks
between Corolla and Currituck.
Nevertheless, Black and Fulk
both said the session was marked
by its speed.
For the first time in three years,
lawmakers adjourned before
August; previous sessions ended in
October and December. It was also
the third time in five years that leg
islators balanced the budget by the
start of the new fiscal year July 1.
The Senate will return in
September to consider economic
development and medical mal
practice reform. “I feel good about
the session as a whole,” said Black,
who was in his third year as speak
er. “1 enjoyed this term the most
out of all my terms as speaker.”
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