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  • 06/01/12 Agriculture Secretaries Dan Glickman and Ann M.... Source: PR Newswire PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) will release a report identifying actionable steps the public and private sectors can take to reduce rising health care costs associated with the decline of our nation's physical health and nutrition.
  • 05/15/12 Accretive Health asks Daschle, Shalala for advice on... Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN The Chicago-based company that was subject of a scathing report in April from Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is convening national policy leaders to set standards for how hospitals should inform patients about the money they owe for health care.
  • 05/12/12 University of Miami job cuts could have major impact... Source: Miami Herald - Miami FL When Nobel Laureate Andrew Schally arrived in South Florida six years ago, he was greeted with great fanfare and named a distinguished professor of pathology at the University of Miami medical school.
  • 05/10/12 South Florida private sector is getting less help from... Source: Idaho Statesman - Boise ID University of Miami administrators this week revealed a plan to cut as much as 5 percent of the private school's total workforce, largely blaming cutbacks in government subsidies tied to its medical school and hospitals.
  • 05/09/12 UM Medical School Plans to Lay Off 800 People Source: NBC/ABC - WTLV NBC 12/WJXX ABC 25 First Coast News - Jacksonville FL University of Miami officials say the medical school is planning to lay off as many as 800 people.

Background on donna shalala

Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) served for eight years as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton and has been president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, since 2001. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President George W.

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