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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

(January 7

Resolution

Be It Resolved, 1. That the Marine American National Bank of Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, be and is hereby designated a depository of the University of Illinois in connection with an agreement to provide lockbox depository account services to the University of Illinois, and that funds so deposited may be withdrawn upon a check draft, note, or order of the University of Illinois. 2. That all checks drawn on or payable against said account shall be signed by any two persons from time to time holding the following offices of this institution: President of the Board of Trustees Secretary of the Board of Trustees 3. That the Marine American National Bank of Champaign be and it is hereby requested, authorized, and directed to honor and to charge this institution for any and all checks drawn in the name of this institution upon said account with said Bank when bearing or purporting to bear the facsimile signature(s) of any officer(s) or any other person(s) heretofore or hereafter authorized to sign checks on behalf of this institution upon said account(s), no matter by whom, by what device, or how the actual or purported facsimile signature (s) may have been placed thereon, if such a signature(s) have the appearance of the facsimile specimen (s) from time to time filed with said Bank. O n m o t i o n of M r . Wolff, t h e foregoing resolution w a s a d o p t e d . By consensus, t h e board agreed t h a t o n e roll call v o t e w o u l d b e taken and considered t h e v o t e o n e a c h a g e n d a i t e m nos. 17 t h r o u g h 2 8 inclusive. T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e individually discussed b u t a c t e d u p o n at o n e time. ( T h e record of board action appears at t h e e n d of e a c h i t e m . )

Contract for Organ Transplantation Processing, Chicago

(17) The chancellor at Chicago has recommended that a contract be executed with the Regional Organ Bank of Illinois (ROBI). With the passage of the Federal National Organ Transplant Act in 1984, and ensuing recommendations of a National Task Force on Organ Transplantation, direction was given to the organization of small regional organ procurement agencies. In 1986, the Illinois Transplant Society, in the name of all participating transplant centers, successfully obtained a start-up Federal grant for the establishment of a regional organization, currently known as the Regional Organ Bank of Illinois. As of July 1, 1987, the Illinois bank has been in operation and responsible for all organ procurement, processing, and distribution of organs in Illinois and northwest Indiana. Prior to its inception, these functions were handled by twelve agencies, eight of which were university-based transplant centers. (The University of Illinois was one of the eight university centers and the key tissue-typing laboratory for the agencies.) It is expected that organ procurement costs will be reimbursed by third-party payers. Medicare, which coven approximately 80 percent of kidney transplant patients, pays the hospital as a direct passthrough for all costs related to kidney procurement Medicaid payment is limited to the ICARE per diem payment which is marginally higher for transplant days.