Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 491]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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treasury. This clinic building should now be erected, since we have taken over the serum laboratory. Dean Davenport requests that the balance of the general building fund of the College of Agriculture, amounting to $2975.91, be transferred and added to the $5000 specifically appropriated, and that enough be added from Agricultural funds to make $8400, and that the building be constructed at once. I recommend t h a t this be done. On motion of M r . A b b o t t , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n was concurred in, b y the following v o t e : Ayes, M r . A b b o t t , M r s . B l a k e , M r s . B u s e y , M r . C a r r , M r s . E v a n s , M r . H o i t ; noes, n o n e ; a b s e n t , M r . H e r b e r t , M r . Lowden, M r . T r i m b l e , M r . W a r d .

AGREEMENT W I T H DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC W E L F A R E

(5) The agreement between the University and the Department of Public Welfare for the construction and operation of a group of hospitals in Chicago. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS FOR CONSTRUCTING AND OPERATING A GROUP OF HOSPITALS IN THE

CITY OF CHICAGO. Suggested Plan of Cooperation Between the University of Illinois and The Department of Public Welfare As the Illinois Department of Public Welfare is about to construct a group of hospitals in the city of Chicago, and as the University of Illinois is desirous of enlarging and improving the facilities of its College of Medicine, in the city of Chicago, and as the University of Illinois College of Medicine desires to make use of the clinical facilities of the hospitals for teaching purposes, and as the Department of Public Welfare desires to avail itself of the professional staff of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, a plan of cooperation is agreed upon by the University of Illinois and the Department of Public Welfare, as follows: Basis. The functions of the two parties to this agreement are to be kept distinct in the same manner as is customary in private hospitals, in so far as possible. The administration and executive direction of the hospitals, including the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, the State Psychiatric Institute, the State Surgical Institute for Children, and the University Clinical Institute shall be in the Department of Public Welfare. The staff officers of the hospitals shall be members of the faculty of the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois and shall have the use of all facilities necessary for conducting medical instruction and research. They shall have no executive authority. The President of the University of Illinois and the Director of Public Welfare shall each appoint three members of a committee to work out details of the plan of cooperation and the report of the committee, when