Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 366]

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1977]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Rockford School of Medicine

Institutions Rockford Memorial Hospital St. Anthony Hospital Swedish American Hospital Total Grand Total

Estimated

Annual $ 18 22 35 $ 75 $432 Cost 000 000 000 000 000*

It is further recommended that the chancellor at the Medical Center campus, with the concurrence of the comptroller, be granted authority to approve changes in the amounts of any of the institutions as needed within the $432,000 allocation. Funds are available in the state appropriations to the University for FY 1978. The vice president for administration concurs. I recommend approval.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Conlon, Mr. Overstreet; no, none; absent, Miss Winter. On motion of Mr. Livingston, these recommendations were approved, and authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Mr. Lenz, Governor Thompson.

Contract with West Side Veterans Administration Hospital for the Sharing of Specialized Medical Resources, Medical Center

(32) The West Side Veterans Administration Hospital, located at 820 South Damen Avenue, Chicago, is closely affiliated with the University. Its medical staff are faculty of the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, residency programs are combined, undergraduate medical students are taught in the Veterans Administration Hospital, the colleges of Nursing and Dentistry and the School of Associated Medical Sciences have instructional programs at the Veterans Administration Hospital, and certain research programs are cooperative. In order to minimize duplication of expensive equipment, space, and personnel for certain laboratory and other procedures, the two hospitals have agreed to share certain clinical facilities and programs. Since Veterans Administration patients are entitled to free care, bills for such patients sent to the University Hospital are rendered to the Veterans Administration. In turn, the Veterans Administration Hospital bills the University Hospital for services rendered its patients. Overall, the dollar value of the care rendered at each institution for the other's patients is approximately equal. If the contract is utilized at its anticipated level, there will be a net cash benefit to the University of Illinois Hospital of approximately $20,000. Full utilization of the contract would call for the University Hospital to supply $55,000 in care to Veterans Administration patients, and for the Veterans Administration Hospital to supply $35,000 in services to University patients. In the unlikely event that the Veterans Administration sent none of its patients contemplated by the contract to the University, and the University sent all of its patients contemplated by the contract to the Veterans Administration Hospital, the maximum amount the University Hospital would be indebted to the Veterans Administration would be $35,000. The proposed contract will be effective for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1978. Funds are available in the University Hospital Income Fund to reimburse the West Side Veterans Administration Hospital should this be necessary.

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Based upon a rate of $2.20 per gross square foot per year.