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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1990
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504 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 9 MEETING, COMMITTEE ON THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Trustee Downey, chair of this committee, asked Chancellor Stukel to present a report on the University Hospital. (Materials for this meeting had been distributed earlier. A copy is on file with the secretary of the board for record.) Dr. Stukel summarized several characteristics of the hospital, indicating that opportunity appeared ripe for development in the areas of neurosciences, cardiac services, transplantation, and oncology. He presented a vision for the hospital, developed by several committees working within the hospital for the last year, that included affiliations with hospitals of different types to strengthen the educational opportunities of the University Hospital. He also stressed the need for greater collaboration between the basic sciences and the clinical sciences. Chancellor Stukel then explained the need for consultants to aid the hospital in reaching the goals that have been set through the work of various strategic planning activities conducted over the last year. One of these consulting projects will be to prepare a business plan for the hospital. Another will be to institute a quality improvement program within the hospital, designed to save approximately 8 to 14 percent of the hospital's personnel budget. The third will be with a consultant who will help the hospital build in the areas noted earlier as possible areas for development. All of these projects will be aimed at making the hospital better able to support itself. Dr. Stukel then reviewed a financial status report for the hospital for the year to date. (A copy of this report is filed with the secretary of the board for record.) Dr. Bazzani then reported on recent events involving MedCare HMO and brought the board up to date on what had occurred since their last meeting. He indicated that the University had severed its agreement with MedCare, resigned its seat on the board, and that the Illinois Department of Public Aid has been ordered to continue their agreement with MedCare to provide funds to MedCare for health care for public aid subscribers. Dr. Bazzani noted that while MedCare HMO provided a good model for providing health care to a diversified group of subscribers it was not in the best interests of the University to be involved with MedCare at this time and that the agreement the University had with MedCare HMO exists no longer. The meeting of the Committee on the University Hospital adjourned at 2:15 p.m. BOARD MEETING RESUMED The board reconvened in regular session at 2:30 p.m. to receive a report from Student Trustee Catherine Caporusso and Ms. Eva Lyford, a student from the Chicago campus, on the condition of the east side of the Chicago campus and the need for restoration for this area of the
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