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Audit gives high marks to KUMC, KU Hospital

The Legislative Post Audit Committee recently released its report on a performance audit for KU Medical Center and KU Hospital. The committee performs audits to ensure tax dollars are allocated effectively. The report addressed questions regarding how spending for research and teaching has changed and how the funds are distributed between the Kansas City and Wichita campuses; how the relationship between the two entities compares to state law and to similar entities in other states; and if the KU Hospital has a "reasonable method for assigning a value to the care provided to indigent patients."

Barbara Atkinson, executive vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center and executive dean of the School of Medicine, said the report is confirmation the medical center is carrying out its commitment to Kansans.

"I am excited by the results of this audit because it reinforces that the KU Medical Center is a high performance enterprise working to add value to our state... I view this audit as a vote of confidence in our academic medical center. Both the University of Kansas Medical Center and KU Hospital can take great pride in the results. We remain steadfastly committed to using our resources efficiently and effectively to improve the health of Kansas," Atkinson said in a prepared statement.

To view the report, visit Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit. To see Atkinson's testimony to the committee, visit Kansas Legislative Post Audit Committee Reports.

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In June 1945, Gertrude Sellards Pearson, a 1901 alumna, and her husband, Texas oilman Joseph R. Pearson, donated $200,000 to help build student housing. In the next 15 years, two residence halls and three scholarship halls opened. One residence hall, named for her, still houses women; the other, named for him, now is home to the School of Education. Pearson, Grace Pearson and Sellards scholarship halls were named for members of their families. For more, see www.buildings.ku.edu.