So MCP-Hahnemann cut ties with large private practices and eliminated medical staff working at other hospitals but paid through the school, he said. While more than 1,100 doctors received paychecks under Allegheny, the medical school now has about 430 faculty, Ross said. Some quit, while others had been paid through the medical school but are now paid by Tenet. New research is crucial to restoring solvency, which is key to any merger vote by the boards of trustees of the two schools. Ross said he will add 100 faculty members to return the medical school to full function, and more if talented researchers want to joins the ranks.
Medical schools are complex businesses.
The educational apparatus was pretty much intact. But, on both the research and the clinical side, we had to bring in a management team to support the faculty efforts. MCP-Hahnemann recruited top physician Dr. Mark I. Evans. He, in turn, recruited Dr. Ronald Wapner and others from Thomas Jefferson University. MCP-Hahnemann went from having no research in its labor and delivery department to being one of three places researching the ability to diagnose fetal cells found in trace amounts of the mother's blood.