Educated Girl from Princeton Lands a good job.
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Michelle Obama appointed vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals
May 9, 2005
Michelle Obama has been appointed vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Obama, who was previously the executive director for community affairs at the Hospitals, will be responsible for all programs and initiatives that involve the relationship between the Hospitals and the community. She will also take over management of the Hospitals' business diversity program.
http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2005...509-obama.html
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You Go GIRL!
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Hospital officials say Obama's wife deserved big raise.
Mark Memmott at 12:22 PM/ET, September 27, 2006 in Local news
Officials at the University of Chicago Hospitals say a promotion and large pay increase given to Sen. Barack Obama's wife shortly after the Democrat was elected to Congress were well-deserved boosts for an executive who is "worth her weight in gold." The Chicago Tribune has the story.
"She's terrific," added Michael Riordan, who was president of the hospital in March 2005, when Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs and had her annual salary increased from $121,910 to $316,962.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline...al_offici.html
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"worth her weight in gold." Yea I'll say.
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Obama Requested $1 Million For Construction Of A New Hospital Pavilion At The University Of Chicago. In 2006, Obama requested that the University of Chicago receive $1 million to support its Construction of New Hospital Pavilion. For more than 75 years, the University of Chicago Hospitals (UCH) has provided state of the art medical care on the South Side of Chicago. UCH is one of the largest Medicaid providers in Illinois, and it provided more than $90 million in uncompensated care for Medicare and Medicaid patients this past year. To continue providing the best care for patients from all walks of life, UCH is proceeding with the construction of a new 600,000 square foot facility that will ensure their ability to provide the best care for patients well into the future. Funding will go towards assisting the construction and equipping a new hospital pavilion that will increase the Hospitals' clinical capacity by over one-third.
[Obama Request Letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, 4/7/06]
http://answercenter.barackobama.com/...ZHM9JnBfY2F0cz
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In April of 2006 Barack submits an $1 Million dollar earmark for University of Chicago Hospitals.
Say thats where Michelle works isn't it?
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August 23, 2008
BY TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporters
Sen. Barack Obama's wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don't have private insurance -- primarily poor, black people -- to other health care facilities.
Michelle Obama -- currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital -- helped create the program, which aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment. Hospital officials say such patients hinder their ability to focus on more critically ill patients in need of specialized care, such as cancer treatment and organ transplants.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politic...hosp23.article
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I guess U of C Med center has connections in high places, the uninsured can just go elsewhere.
Change you can believe in!