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LSU Board Meeting Notice

BATON ROUGE – Jan. 22, 2010 – Hospital proposals in Baton Rouge and Shreveport along with coaching salary hikes top the agenda for next week’s meeting of the LSU Board of Supervisors.

The board meeting is scheduled to get underway with committee sessions at 1 p.m. Friday (1/29) at the Board Meeting Room, 3810 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge.  The regular board meeting will follow.  An agenda for the session is attached.

In health care matters, board members will consider approval of a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement among LSU, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, and the State of Louisiana for the hospital to become LSU’s new teaching hospital in Baton Rouge, replacing the antiquated Earl K. Long Medical Center.  Included in plans are the construction of a Level One Trauma Center, an additional 60 hospital beds, and the a new medical education building.  The collaboration goes into effect in December, 2013 in lieu of building a replacement facility for the aging North Baton Rouge public hospital. LSU already has $24 million previously set aside for a new hospital and is seeking an additional $120 million from the Legislature for the Lady of the Lake proposal.

Also up for consideration is a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, which is adjacent to the LSUHSC-S campus.  Shriners and HSC-S have been considering options for creating an LSU pediatric hospital for more than five years. The MOU calls for the Shriners to sell its hospital building to LSU in return for LSU paying the appraised, fair market value of the land, building, and equipment.  The method of payment remains to be negotiated, but is expected to include a provision of in-kind services to Shriners patients.  The Legislature has appropriated $10 million to the HSC-S Foundation to be used for construction of a children’s hospital in conjunction with this proposal.

Elsewhere, LSU coaches, including Baseball Coach Paul Mainieri, are up for pay raises in a series of coaching contract amendments to be considered along with a change in 2010 football ticket prices.  The ticket changes include a new “premium” charge for a Southeastern Conference game that will cost $70 per ticket instead of the previous $50.

A report on campus-by-campus performance indicators is scheduled to be given to the board.  The document is designed to track campus improvement on an annual basis and provide benchmarks for comparing how individual institutions stack up against national counterparts.

View the agenda here: http://www.lsusystem.edu/boardofsupervisors/minutes/

Contact:
Charles Zewe, PhD, LSU System Vice President for Communication, 225-578-3941 (czewe@lsu.edu)

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