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Show Rampton plans financial help for U hospital By SUZANNE DEAN Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Gov. Calvin L. Rampton said Thursday he will ask the 1972 budget session for a one-time special aporopriation and, over the coming years, wU recommend substantaJJy-increased annual appropriations appropria-tions to help the financially-troubled University Medical Center. The money is needed to wipe out a $1.2 million deficit currently on the Medical Center's books and to set the hospital on a path that will hopefully enable it to keep its budget balanced in the future. Self-sustaining Facility "When the University Medical Center was built, it was represented as a facility that could be self-sustaining," the governor gov-ernor told local newsmen at a press conference held at KUED-TV studios in the Music Hall. "Considering the hospital's teaching function and the fact that as a public hospital it carries a high percentage of unpaid accounts, I think that was a naive assumption." Unpaid Accounts The unpaid accounts are primarily the result of costs incurred by the hospital in (Continued on page 3, column 1) Increased funds aimed at hospital "--g". , , iit '"c uian inromcie. bummer tdition, June 22, 1971 3 t ' v-: ; I Vy.Wi : i i tiflBiftoriiTIiLLjlii ' ' 4 state needed to make the amendment amend-ment effective." Defends Resolution The governor said he felt the resolution passed by a recent State Democratic Convention demanding that all troops in Vietnam be withdrawn by September Sep-tember 15 is now unrealistic because of the "logistic problems." prob-lems." But he defended the convention's conven-tion's action. "1 think they wanted to dramatize the problem," prob-lem," he said. Governor r-ilvin i d . r , -Chronicle staff photo by Alan Thclin eZTT t0n faC6S l0Cal """view- financial problems of University Medical Center eto discuss state government plans. He explained and ideas on revenue shamm proposal. (Continued from page 1) ireating patients unable to pay their bills. The bills have remained unpaid un-paid while the state and Salt 1 lke County have carried on a dispute as to which unit of government must pay medical bills for patients who, though unable to meet their own costs, are not poor enough to qualify for federally-subsidized medicaid oayments. Meet with Officials The governor said he will meet this week with University officials to work out some interim solution to the mounting deficit until the 1972 legislative session can act. He said the t Medical Center may be permit-led permit-led to take out a loan against its S4 million in accounts receivable. receiva-ble. While the Medical Center problems will have to wait for the 1972 budget session, Gov. Rampton said he plans to place ratification of a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment setting set-ting the voting age at 18 in all elections on the agenda for a special legislative session this August. Will Be Ratified "I have every reason to suppose it will be ratified." the i governor said. "And we could come very near to being the final |
