These include paying off debts, retaining tuition benefits and handling tenure during this transaction. This realization led them to seek out a partnership. DeGioia stated that MedStar would provide support for a greater number of doctors. The pipeline of patients needs to be larger than that which the Medical Center currently has, which raises the issue of space. They have settled on the Kober-Cogan space to resolve this issue.
Parking is a key concern as well more of it is needed, but the space is currently capped.
A critical question is determining what it will take to reposition academics in a post-transaction environment. In recent years, the Medical Center has been losing money in its research enterprise. DeGioia admitted that the research enterprise does not have a large endowment, in part due to the relative newness of the operation. DeGioia argued that they are more clear today than ever before on what the economic conditions are, but that there are still issues with which they need to grapple. The student body at the Medical Center is not sizeable, and the hard dollars simply are not there as they are on the Main Campus.