Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 294]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Assistance — No Grant" program of the Illinois Department of Public Aid. The program is designed to help the medically indigent pay for hospitalization. Hospital Central Services, a shared services corporation affiliated with the Chicago Hospital Council, has developed a training program to improve hospital employees' ability to aid people in applying for the program. Improved assistance to patients is expected to increase revenues for medical care provided to those who are eligible for the program and who cannot pay without such aid. The cost of the training program will include fees for professional services and expenses and will not exceed $15,000. Funds are available in the Hospital Income Fund. The Chancellor at the Medical Center, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, has recommended approval. The Vice President for Administration concurs. I recommend approval. T h e student advisory v o t e w a s : Aye, M r . C o n l o n , M r . M a t t h e w s , M r . V o l g m a n ; n o , none. O n m o t i o n of M r . N e a l , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved by the following v o t e : Aye, M r . Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , Mr. Lenz, M r . Livingston, M r . N e a l , M r s . R a d e r , Mrs. Shepherd, M r . V e l a s q u e z ; n o , n o n e ; absent, G o v e r n o r T h o m p s o n .

Contract with Medicus Systems Corporation, Medical Center

(19) The current shortage of nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital has made more acute certain long-standing problems resulting from the lack of a formal staffing plan for nurses. No systematic study has yet been made of how much nursing care, of what type, is needed by the particular patient population of the hospital. Thus, ready means are not available for anticipating the need for nurses based on hospital census projections, for responding to sudden demands, for shifting assignments to cover shortages of nurses, or for developing a plan for recruiting new nurses. Medicus Systems Corporation is widely known as having developed a method for conducting a patient-based nurse staffing study and subsequently installing computerized management systems for assignment of nurses to patient units. The hospital wishes to engage the services of the Medicus Systems Corporation for this purpose. The cost of the services provided will be paid in accordance with hourly professional rates currently charged by Medicus Systems Corporation plus any necessary miscellaneous expense. The total charges will not exceed $80,100. The contemplated starting date is June 1, 1977, the work to continue for no longer than eight months. Funds are available in the Hospital Income Fund. The Chancellor at the Medical Center campus has recommended approval. The Vice President for Administration concurs. I recommend approval. T h e student advisory v o t e w a s : Aye, M r . C o n l o n , M r . M a t t h e w s , Mr. V o l g m a n ; no, none. O n m o t i o n of M r . Livingston, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved by the following v o t e : Aye, M r . Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . Lenz, Mr. Livingston, M r . N e a l , Mrs. R a d e r , Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. V e l a s q u e z ; n o , n o n e ; absent, G o v e r n o r T h o m p s o n .