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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 21

urged all Illinois hospitals to cooperate with the voluntary program. Each Illinois hospital has been asked to become designated formally as a "certified cost containment hospital." I n addition to hospital efforts designed to monitor expenditures, to report expenditures publicly, and to reduce expenditures, the adoption of a resolution by the governing board of the hospital is required for such designation. T h e resolution is to support the state program of voluntary cost containment, pledge reassessment of operating and capital budgets, and pledge the use of all means to keep hospital budgets at the lowest possible level consistent with sound medical practice and patient care. T h e Executive Committee of the Medical Staff of the University of Illinois Hospital on May 19, 1978, unanimously approved a resolution in support of the voluntary cost containment program. If the Board of Trustees, as the governing board of the hospital, adopts the following resolution, the hospital will request certification as a cost containment hospital and participate formally in the state and national programs. T h e chancellor at the Medical Center has recommended approval of the following resolution. The vice president for administration concurs. I recommend approval. Resolution of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois in Support of the National Voluntary Cost Containment Program Whereas, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, and the Federation of American Hospitals, in recognition of the need to restrain the rate of increase in health care expenditures, agreed to organize a Voluntary Cos* Containment Program foT hospitals and urged each hospital to reassess its operating and capital budgets to see if anything further can be done to reduce these budgets, consistent with sound medical practice, and Whereas, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, and the Federation of American Hospitals have organized a National Steering Committee on Voluntary Cost Containment, which has developed a program to be implemented through state-level voluntary cost containment committees and through voluntary action of individual hospitals, and Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has reviewed these developments and is in agreement with the need for a voluntary cost containment program at the national and state levels, and Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois is committed to voluntary action as a key to cost containment and desires to demonstrate the value of voluntary action in. cost containment, and Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois is empowered by Illinois statute to manage, control, and operate the University of Illinois Hospital, Therefore Be It Resolved, that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois supports the program of the National Steering Committee on Voluntary Cost Containment; has initiated an assessment of the operating and capital budgets of the University of Illinois Hospital to see if additional reductions can be made, consistent with sound medical practice; pledges the use of all reasonable means to keep hospital operating expenditures and capital budgets at the lowest levels, consistent with sound medical practice; and seeks provisional certification by the State of Illinois Cost Containment Committee.

On motion of Mrs. Rader, the foregoing resolution was adopted.

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