April 9, 2025
Community-Centered Healthcare: Meeting Evolving Needs in Princeton
Jim Demetriades
CEO of Penn Medicine Princeton Health
Community-Centered Healthcare: Meeting Evolving Needs in Princeton
Jim Demetriades
CEO of Penn Medicine Princeton Health
Lynne Durkee, introducer, and Jim Demetriades
Minutes of the 26th Meeting of the 83rd Year
President George L. Bustin called the meeting to order at 10:15 a.m. and member Joan Fleming led us in the invocation.
One hundred twelve members and one guest attended the meeting. Paul Kerns Murphy was the guest of Colin Hill. Mr. Murphy will be submitting an application for membership.
President George Bustin called for a moment of silence in remembrance of Richard Oliver Funsch, a member since 1999.
President Bustin announced that books written by next week's speaker, Edward Aldridge, will be available for $20--not the regular $34.95, so bring cash to the next meeting!
President Bustin announced that Kathryn Trenner would be taking the minutes for today's meeting.
Julia Denny read the minutes from the prior meeting, "Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth Century Bestiary," with speakers Thomas Keenan and Deborah Schlein.
Member Lynne Durkee introduced the speaker, Jim Demetriades, CEO of Penn Medicine Princeton Health.
Mr. Demetriades earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in Healthcare Administration as class valedictorian from the University of Scranton and an MBA from Temple University. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Reserve Medical Service Corps Officer in the United States Navy.
Mr. Demetriades has worked for the Princeton Healthcare system for a combined 21 years: Princeton Health for 6 years and then again commencing in 2010 and continuing to present for Penn Medicine Princeton Health, leading the overall move of the facility from downtown Princeton, planning and executing the move 13 years ago, and the subsequent merger as Princeton Health transformed into a part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and is now named Penn Medicine Princeton Health, where Jim Demetriades is CEO.
Penn Medicine Princeton Health is presently composed of:
Acute Care/Outpatient: 231 beds;
Behavioral Heath: 116 beds;
Home Care: in 6 counties;
Princeton Physicians: 219 employed at 32 locations;
14 operating rooms;
507 volunteers; and much more!
Construction is underway to provide a complimentary 1200-spot car parking garage with spaces for ebikes and bicycles. It should open in June 2025. Better access to physician offices should be completely constructed by September 2025.
The $401-million-dollar Cancer Center construction plan has just been approved and should break ground in September 2025 and open in May 2028. Its $50-million capital campaign has already received $32 million in donations.
The facility does not have lots of extra land, but is expanding its geographic footprint to Hillsborough, Robbinsville, Pennington, Lawrenceville, Manalapan, Monroe, and even Bucks County. Doylestown is 26 miles due west by road and St Mary's hospital has been facing serious challenges. Penn Medicine Princeton Health had 48,000 patients a year during the pandemic and now has 60,000 a year, and with all the huge housing developments under construction around it, the facility must grow to meet the growing needs of the community.
Politics is affecting insurance, and Medicaid will be facing cuts, supplies are being stockpiled as the supply chain struggles, and there is a shortfall of physicians and midlevel medical providers.
Should medical school be cut from 4 to 3 years; should students skip the typical intervening year and years of residencies, should physician assistants, nurse practitioners, technologists and medical records specialists take over more functions?
And finally, how does Penn Medicine Princeton Health compete/cooperate with urgent care centers and other hospital systems. All of these issues reflect a state of constant change.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathryn Trenner
One hundred twelve members and one guest attended the meeting. Paul Kerns Murphy was the guest of Colin Hill. Mr. Murphy will be submitting an application for membership.
President George Bustin called for a moment of silence in remembrance of Richard Oliver Funsch, a member since 1999.
President Bustin announced that books written by next week's speaker, Edward Aldridge, will be available for $20--not the regular $34.95, so bring cash to the next meeting!
President Bustin announced that Kathryn Trenner would be taking the minutes for today's meeting.
Julia Denny read the minutes from the prior meeting, "Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth Century Bestiary," with speakers Thomas Keenan and Deborah Schlein.
Member Lynne Durkee introduced the speaker, Jim Demetriades, CEO of Penn Medicine Princeton Health.
Mr. Demetriades earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in Healthcare Administration as class valedictorian from the University of Scranton and an MBA from Temple University. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Reserve Medical Service Corps Officer in the United States Navy.
Mr. Demetriades has worked for the Princeton Healthcare system for a combined 21 years: Princeton Health for 6 years and then again commencing in 2010 and continuing to present for Penn Medicine Princeton Health, leading the overall move of the facility from downtown Princeton, planning and executing the move 13 years ago, and the subsequent merger as Princeton Health transformed into a part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and is now named Penn Medicine Princeton Health, where Jim Demetriades is CEO.
Penn Medicine Princeton Health is presently composed of:
Acute Care/Outpatient: 231 beds;
Behavioral Heath: 116 beds;
Home Care: in 6 counties;
Princeton Physicians: 219 employed at 32 locations;
14 operating rooms;
507 volunteers; and much more!
Construction is underway to provide a complimentary 1200-spot car parking garage with spaces for ebikes and bicycles. It should open in June 2025. Better access to physician offices should be completely constructed by September 2025.
The $401-million-dollar Cancer Center construction plan has just been approved and should break ground in September 2025 and open in May 2028. Its $50-million capital campaign has already received $32 million in donations.
The facility does not have lots of extra land, but is expanding its geographic footprint to Hillsborough, Robbinsville, Pennington, Lawrenceville, Manalapan, Monroe, and even Bucks County. Doylestown is 26 miles due west by road and St Mary's hospital has been facing serious challenges. Penn Medicine Princeton Health had 48,000 patients a year during the pandemic and now has 60,000 a year, and with all the huge housing developments under construction around it, the facility must grow to meet the growing needs of the community.
Politics is affecting insurance, and Medicaid will be facing cuts, supplies are being stockpiled as the supply chain struggles, and there is a shortfall of physicians and midlevel medical providers.
Should medical school be cut from 4 to 3 years; should students skip the typical intervening year and years of residencies, should physician assistants, nurse practitioners, technologists and medical records specialists take over more functions?
And finally, how does Penn Medicine Princeton Health compete/cooperate with urgent care centers and other hospital systems. All of these issues reflect a state of constant change.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathryn Trenner