Box 027

Re: Correspondence with John T. Ashley about home health care program, foundation to deliver patient care services outside the Hospitals, ambulatory internal medicine, prescription liability, subsidizing primary care practitioners, administrative duties, laboratory costs, maintaining quality services, and a grant proposal for General Electric Foundation.

Re: Hook's notes after a meeting with John T. Ashley who proposed cutting costs by 7 million dollars, loss of referral physicians, delinquent medical records, obtaining a pager, ambulatory care leadership, patient costs, and Blue Ridge Hospital.

Re: Topics include acquisition of a Gamma Unit, praise from a satisfied patient, problems with the Simon Paging System, Nephrology residents, and food and drink restriction policy.

Re: Obtaining admission lists, availability of beds, budget adjustments, enhancing revenue, removal of vending machines, difficulty of maintaining adequate amount of nurses, and the appointment of Michael J. Halseth as interim executive director.

Re: Surgical Transition Lounge, unlocked file cabinets, last pod on 8th floor, relationship between Augusta Hospital Corporation and UVA Hospital, additional residents, placement of directory signs, movement of departments, and various "housekeeping items."

Re: Improving productivity and reducing costs throughout the hospital.

Re: Admissions, organizational charts, and lists of departments and managers by division, complaints by overcrowding, lack of cleanliness and inadequate patient care, discharge summaries, audit, and graphs and charts dealing with cash flow projections.

Re: Service-specific admission and patient days graphs, internal audit, revision of hospital organization, Biennial Evaluation and Planning Report 1986-1998, hospital nutrition center, surgical furlough policy, notification program, North 4 patient care unit, and space issues.

Re: 1958, "We're Going to Have A New Hospital"; "New Hospital Dedicated, April 14, 1961"; "The Early Years of The University of Virginia Hospital: An Analysis of Patient's Records."

Re: Information collected through Hook's years for evaluation by Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals; included is a 1981 recommendation for future compliance and 1990 Mock Survey for JCAHO.

Re: Hook comments in depth on the 1985 Hospital Long Range Plan.

Re: Correspondence regarding University of Virginia relationship between Veterans Administration Hospital, Salem, Virginia and Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia.

Re: 1988 proposed agreement between Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, Virginia and UVA Hospitals.

Re: The Towers were used as rehabilitation units in the early 1980's; by 1988 the University terminated the lease of the Towers.

Re: Development of the Extended Care Facility in the Towers which opened in the fall of 1971; concern about railroad noise, locating student health services in ECF, house staff coverage, transportation difficulties, the towers fee schedule, tower's statistics, laboratory space for Department of Pathology, and indigent care.

Re: Topics involving the Towers, such as stocking periodicals and textbooks about chronic diseases, organization of the Medical Services in CCF, house staff coverage, Family Practice Program involvement, transportation of patients, and relationship to endocrine laboratory.