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q4A- COUNCIL OF TEACHING HOSPITALS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 202/223-5364 AGENDA EXECUTIVE COMMITNE MEETING #68-3 Thursday and Friday, May 9 and 10, 1968 Hotel Dupont Plaza 1500 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 202/483-6000 Thursday, May 9, 1968: 6:30 p.m. Reception Dupont Room (Lower Level) 7:00 p.m. 1. Dinner Meeting 2. Presentation S. Douglass Cater, Jr.12 Robert Q—Marston, M.D. 10:00 p.m. Recess • Friday, May 10, 1968: 9:30 a.m. Reconvene -7 Conference Room -- 4th Floor, Dupont (to allow for early Circle Building, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. checkout from Dupont 202/223-5364 Plaza, if desired. A "working lunch" will 3. Approval of Minutes, Executive Committee Tab 1 be served at 12:30 in Meeting #68-2, January 11 & 12, 1968 the Conference Room) 4. Report on Action Items from Executive Tab 2a".41. Committee Meeting of January 11 & 12 '0 • \-.0A exs-C 1.) e. zskeo Q., to Implement "A Guide to C c;.-C 1-1mu_s.eTs-1-00°' • Report on Study Hospitals" (see page 6 of Minutes of Committee Meeting #68-2) Consc-c-o-C,k- tr' Gite to- Executive MC, a---e c-)INcx.A)k • e.p)P1 Status Report on Membership Tab 3/ • c-0 _AR C.9,-ci . 7. New Members Elected by Mail Ballot: A. Scott & White Memorial Hospital* Temple, Texas 1. Special Assistant to the President of the United States 2. Acting Administrator, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, and Director Division of Regional Medical Programs, National Institutes of Health -2- B. Nussa Municipal Hospital* San Juan, Puerto Rico C. Grasslands Hospital* Valhalla, New York D. Wilford Hall USAG Hospital** Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio, Texas E. Veterans Administration Hospital** Providence, Rhode Island F. University of Arizona** Tuscon, Arizona 8. New Applications for Membership Tab 4 A. Nominated by a Dean 1. Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital Chicago, Illinois 9. Other Membership Possibilities A. Hospitals Offering 3 of 5 COTH Required Tab 5a Residencies and Internship Programs B. Hospitals Offering 2 of 5 COTH Required Tab 5b Residencies and Internship Programs C. Hospitals with Internship Programs and Tab 5c 3 Residencies (But Not Those Required for COTH Membership) 10. Inquiry into Possibilities for Membership -- Tab 6 Postgraduate Medical Institute Boston, Massachusetts 11. Progress Report on Contracts A. Teaching Hospital Information Center (signed and ongoing --'see Tab 2e) B. Study Regarding Effect of Recent Social Legislation on Patient Population in Teaching Hospitals (In Negotiation) 12. Report of Committees A. Committee on Modernization and Construc- tion Funds for Teaching Hospitals 1. Minutes, Meeting of 2/19/68 Tab 7awe/ 2. White Paper Tab 713*-* 3. Concern -- AHA Definition of a Tab 7 Teaching Hospital B. Committee on Financial Principles for Teaching Hospitals 1. Minutes, Meeting of 1/25/68 Tab 7dte/ 2. Recommended Addition of Frances J.. Sweeney, Jr., M.D., Hospital Director, • Jefferson Medical College Hospital, to _3 Committee Tok ra Statement of Financial Prin- Tab ciples (not reviewed by Committee) -741/ 415 Regional Conferences on Health Care Tab 75r. Costs * 1967-68 half-year dues ** Dues become effective July 1, 1968 1. -3- C. AAMC-COTH Committee on Federal Health l'12_111K Programs and Federal Health Legislation D. COTH-AHA Presidential Officers Meeting Tab 74 13. AHA Statement on Financial Requirements of Tab 8 Health Care Institutions and Services 14. Resignation of Lee Powers, M.D., and Successor 15. Commemorative Resolution -- A. J. "Gus" Carroll Tab 9 16. COTH Regional Meetings A; Agendas from Western, Midwest/Great Plains, Tab 10a1// Northeastern, and Southern Meetings B. Recommendation from Southern Regional Tab 10b,i Meeting C. Correspondence from Committee of Interns Tab 10c and Residents of the New York Municipal Hospitals to the City of New York 17. Annual Meeting -- 1968 Tab 11 18. Position Statement by Association of Hospital Tab 12 Directors of Medical Education 19. COTH Permanent Membership Certificate Tab 13t, 20. Information Items A. Report on Progress of Completion of COTH History B. Coth Hospitals Participating in PAS Tab 14a and MAP C. Council of Academic Societies Workshop Tab 14b1/ on Graduate Education 21. Future Meetings of the Executive Committee Tab 15V- 22. Other Business 23. Adjournment -- 4:00 p.m. COUNCIL OF TEACHING HOSPITALS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 202/223-5364 MINUTES MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (#68-2) Hotel Dupont Plaza 1500 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 Thursday & Friday, January 11 & 12, 1968 Present: Lad F. Grapski, Chairman LeRoy S. Rambeck, Chairman-Elect Stanley A. Ferguson, Immediate Past Chairman Matthew F. McNulty, Jr., Secretary Ernest N. Boettcher, M.D., Member Leonard W. Cronkhite, Jr., M.D., Member Charles R. Goulet, Member LeRoy E. Bates, M.D., Member Charles H. Frenzel, Member C. T. Stewart Hamilton, M.D., COTH Member to AAMC Executive Council (Friday only) Dan J. Macer, Member Lester E. Richwagen, Member Richard D. Wittrup, Member Joseph McNinch, M.D., Director, Southeastern Office, AMA (Invited participant) John Parks, M.D., President, AAMC (Thursday only) Robert C. Berson, M.D., Executive Director, AAMC (Thursday only) Grace W. Beirne, Staff Assistant, COTH Fletcher H. Bingham, Ph.D., Assistant Director, COTH Elizabeth A. Burgoyne, Secretary to the Director, COTH Absent: Harold H. Hixson, Ex-Officio Member, COTH Member to AAMC Executive Council Russell A. Nelson, M.D., Ex-Officio Member, COTH Member to AAMC Executive Council The Executive Committee was joined for lunch on Friday, January 12, by James H. Cavanaugh, Ph.D., Director, Office of Comprehensive Planning and Development, U.S.P.H.S., and by Thomas G. Moore, Jr., Director, Office of Legislation, Office of the Surgeon General, U.S.P.H.S. • I. Call to Order: The Thursday evening meeting was called to order at 8:20 p.m. by Mr. Lad F. Grapski, Chairman, Council of Teaching Hospitals. A dinner and rece- ption, starting promptly at 6:00 p.m., preceded the evening meeting. II. Presentation: Chairman Grapski welcomed the members to the second meeting of the COTH Executive Committee for the 1967-68 Administrative Year. He then presented John Parks, M.D., and Robert permission C. Berson, M.D., President and Executive Director of the AAMC, respectively. They discussed the expanding charac- without ter of the AAMC and the various aspects of mutual activities of medical schools and teaching hospitals, following which there was a general dis- reproduced be cussion. to Not III. Recess: Following Doctors Parks and AAMC Berson's presentation, Chairman Grapski ex- the tended to them the appreciation of the members of the Executive of Com- mittee for joining them. Subsequently, the Chairman adjourned the meeting at 10:00 collections p.m. the IV. Reconvene - Roll Call of the from Committee: Chairman Grapski reconvened the meeting at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, January Document 12, and roll call was taken. Attendance was as noted previously in these minutes. Item 3: Approval of Minutes: ACTION #1 IT WAS MOVED THAT THE MINUTES OF THE OCTOBER 27 and 30, 1967, MEETINGS OF THE COTH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BE APPROVED AS PRESENTED. THE MOTION WAS SECONDED AND APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY. Item 4: Status Report on Membership, FY 1967-68: Mr. McNulty reported that the 1967-68 paid membership to date is 316; unpaid, 18; old members unpaid, 17, and new members unpaid, 1. Item 5: New Applications for Membership: Mr. McNulty brought the Committee's attention to the application for COTH membership submitted by Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey. He recommended approval as the applicant met the internship and permission residency requirements. without ACTION #2 THERE WAS A MOTION THAT MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER BE APPROVED FOR MEMBER- SHIP. THE MOTION WAS SECONDED AND PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. reproduced be Item 6: Inquiries as to Possibilities for Membership: to Not Mr. McNulty presented the recent correspondence with Detroit Osteo- pathic Association, a corporate body of three osteopathic hospitals which AAMC interested the is in joining COTH. He said that the COTH staff had no firm of stand and would accede to the wishes of the Committee Members. Follow- ing, there was a full discussion of the ramifications and possibilities collections the of accepting an osteopathic institution. from ACTION #3 IT WAS AGREED THAT MR. McNULTY SHOULD DISCUSS THE QUESTION OF ADMITTING OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITALS WITH ROBERT C. BERSON, M.D., EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Document AAMC, TO DETERMINE THE AMMC STAND WITH REGARD TO OSTEOPATHIC INSTITUTIONS. FURTHER ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN BY COTH PENDING RESULTS OF SUCH DISCUSSION. Item 7: Report of Committees: A. Committee on Modernization and Construction Funds for Teaching Hospitals: Mr. Frenzel reported on the activities of this Committee, bringing special attention to Actions 2 and 4 of their December 12 meeting; Action 2 being the decision to have that Committee report to the COTH Executive Committee and have COTH report as a unit to the AAMC Committee on Federal Health Programs, instead of the COTH Committee reporting only to the AAMC Com- mittee. •Action 4 was the decision to have members of the Committee on Modernization and Construction Funds contact various members of the Nat- ional. Advisory Commission on Health Facilities on an informal level to permission establish lines of communication for future "input". without In response to a question from Mr. Rambeck concerning the Federal spending "freeze", Mr. Frenzel reported that the Committee took the action of refer- reproduced ring that issue to the COTH Committee on Financial Principles for Teaching be to Hospitals, since it was more properly in their domain, and that the AAMC Not • Committee on Federal Health Programs had discussed it briefly.