Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 290]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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meant control of all business transactions in connection with the work of these hospitals, which includes the employment of all officers and employees; the purchase and issuance of supplies and equipment, assigning space in the buildings among different hospitals and divisions; the control of the admission, transfer and discharge of all resident patients except as hereinafter qualified; providing maintenance for nurses, residents, interns, and patients; and new building construction, including preparation of plans and specifications, letting of contracts, supervision of construction; Physical Plant operation and maintenance, including employment and supervision of staff and purchase of materials. Section 2. T h e position of Managing Officer shall be abolished. T h e chief administrative and executive officer of the Research and Educational Hospitals shall be designated as Superintendent. H e shall be appointed by the University. T h e Superintendent shall perform such duties as may be required of him by the University pursuant to this Agreement. T h e Department may appoint an Assistant Superintendent upon the nomination of the University who shall be responsible to the Superintendent but shall perform such duties with respect to constituent units under the direction of the Department as the latter may prescribe. T h e University agrees, on the request of the Department, to the appointment of the Superintendent by the latter as Superintendent of the constituent units under its direction. Section 3. There shall be established a Joint Committee of four, two to be appointed by the Director of Public Welfare, and two by the President of the University, to which, at the request of the Superintendent of the Research and Educational Hospitals or any Dean or other University administrative officer, may be referred any matters upon which there may be doubt or difference of opinion. Matters upon which this committee cannot agree shall be referred for decision to the Director of the Department and the President of the University. Section 4. T h e Joint Committee shall serve as an advisory committee to the Director of the Department of Public Welfare on medical service and medical personnel problems of the Department; it shall serve as a permanent medium for the exchange of information, suggestions, and proposals between the Department and the University and shall study and report upon all questions of a medical nature which the Department of Public Welfare wishes to bring to the attention of the University for solution. It is expressly understood that the Chicago Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy of the University shall endeavor to develop educational and research programs which will help to relieve the State in the future of its great burdens due to physical and mental disability among its citizens. Other facilities of the University which may be useful to the Chicago Colleges in developing new programs shall be coordinated in such studies. Section 5. On the request of the Department, the Joint Committee shall prepare and conduct examinations for medical positions in the Department of Public Welfare and shall present a list of suitably qualified persons, from which list the Department will make appointments. ARTICLE III

OPERATION: U S E OF CONSTITUENT U N I T S

Section 1. T h e University agrees to provide for the compensation of the medical and scientific staff from the University budget of the College of Medicine for the following units: the University Clinical Institute and the out-patient department (the General Hospital), and the Illinois Surgical Institute for Children. Section 2. T h e University agrees to provide all equipment and supplies, laboratory apparatus, operating room equipment, libraries, and drugs, for treatment of patients and for educational and research purposes, and for the maintenance and operation of the Physical P l a n t ; salaries of residents, nurses, laboratory workers, anaesthetists, physiotherapists, social service workers, business office personnel; and the maintenance of bed service, including medicine, food, and laundry, from the specific appropriations for the operation of the hospital.