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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[May 18

Contract with Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center to Provide Computerized Axial Tomography Scans for University of Illinois Hospital Patients

(20) The University of Illinois Hospital does not as yet have a computerized axial tomography unit, popularly known as a "CAT scanner." Equipment of this type substantially extends radiologic diagnosis of a variety of conditions, particularly those involving diseases of soft tissues. Use of the computerized axial tomogram has become standard medical practice in certain areas, most notably neurosurgery. It has thus become necessary for the hospital to arrange for tomography elsewhere, until the University can acquire a unit of its own. The Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center is willing to enter into an agreement whereby patients at the University of Illinois Hospital may have access to the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center's computerized axial tomography unit, on a cost-for-service basis. The cost of the services provided will be paid in accordance with standard rates in effect at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and will not exceed $100,000 for a one-year period. Patients will be billed according to University of Illinois Hospital policies. The contract would become effective July 1, 1977. Funds are available in the Hospital Income Fund. The Chancellor at the Medical Center, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, has recommended that this contract as described be approved. The Vice President for Administration concurs. I recommend approval.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Neal, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson.

Contract for Supervisory Control System, Science and Engineering Offices Building, Chicago Circle

(21) The President of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of a contract in the amount of $22,795 to J. Livingston Company, Elk Grove Village, the low bidder, for the furnishing of all materials, labor, and services necessary for the installation of a supervisory control system for the Science and Engineering Offices Building at the Chicago Circle campus. The project is a continuation of an ongoing program whereby the supply and exhaust fans and duct damper systems of a building can be controlled from a central supervisory control console in the Utilities Building. It is anticipated that the work will begin on June 6, 1977, and be completed by September 1, 1977. Funds for the work are available from gifts from private sources.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Neal, this contract was awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson.