Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994 [PAGE 645]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The 'Variable Compensation' of a Full Member, Associate Member, Affiliate Member, or other departmental health care provider shall be an amount determined by the Department Plan based upon the Net Professional Fees earned by the Members of the Department during a fiscal year of the plan. On July 12, 1990, the board approved a revision of the MSP that provided that: Faculty may receive variable compensation from the MSP fund based upon the amount of professional fees earned by department faculty during a fiscal year. This provision, while authorizing a variable compensation program, limits variable compensation payments to MSP physician members who are faculty in the College of Medicine. As health care delivery changes, many non-physician providers, such as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, psychologists, etc., are directly involved in MSP related patient care activity. This is particularly true in HMO capitated reimbursement plans. The MSP Board of Directors and the Health Services Policy Council recommend extending the variable salary provision of the MSP Bylaws to non-physician health care providers as a way to enhance productivity and promote collegiality among disciplines. The variable compensation is subject to the availability of funds and to guidelines to be established by the vice chancellor for health services. The guidelines will include determination of eligibility for this compensation. The vice presidents for academic affairs and for business and finance concur. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Gindorf, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Engelbrecht, Dr. Gindorf, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Lopez, Mrs. O'Malley, Ms. Reese; no, none; absent, Governor Edgar. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Malone, Mr. Mathew, Mr. Rose; no, none.)

Amendment and Extension to Supplemental Operating Room Staffing Contract, University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics, Chicago

(22) The chancellor at Chicago recommends an amendment to the contract with First Assist, Inc., Oak Brook, to provide operating room technicians on a temporary basis to the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics (UIH&C). The current contract ends on June 30, 1996, and would be extended for the period of July 1, 1996, through June 30, 1997. The UIH&C Surgical Services Department has been working to enhance the overall efficiency and cost effectiveness of the operating rooms over the past year. As part of this endeavor, the department is changing the staffing skill mix to include operating room technicians and is extending the hours of operations to reduce the need for overtime. The department has also experienced a loss of employees to retirement and other employment opportunities over the past year. As a transitional measure in the establishment of this new employee skill mix and to sustain the delivery of high quality surgical services in the operating room in an extremely tight recruitment market, UIH&C contracted with First Assist to provide operating room technicians on a temporary basis through June 30, 1996. This arrangement has worked very well for the department while it is actively recruiting full-time operating room technicians and trying to accommodate displacements from the current inhouse labor pool. To complete this transition, UIH&C needs to increase the current contract amount by $25,000 for the greater than anticipated use of First Assist, and extend