Future Quality of UW Madison

barrons
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:48:42 +0000

I know exactly how the UW hospitals were established as a public authority with their own board(many of which are UW people) But the Med School is still part of the basic UW as are the research institutes physically attached to the hospital so say the are separate except for legal purposes is really a fine point with no practical meaning. Med students still do their training at the hospital as do nurses. Clinical profs are on both payrolls. So to messy things because of some legal behind the scenes issues is really nothing to do with the fact that in practice UW has a med school and a hospital. It might have some issues for admins but for anyone looking at UW it really is a meaningless distinction. The only reason I mentioned is, as I said, is that including hospital revenues and expenses in the basic university budget throws off numbers. For example the state funds about 15% of the basic UW budget but if the hospitals were included as they are at Umich and Uva the total budget would be grossed up to say nearly twice as much and the state would only pay 7.5% of that number. But that is a meaningless number as the state never paid for the hospital operation in any major way. Get it now?? And who said anything about undergrads? This was about the total UW budget which includes research and everything else.Now is the sky blue?
The website even includes both entities. Talk about hair-spliting for no good reason.

[University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health](http://www.med.wisc.edu/)

http://host.madison.com/news/local/education/campus_connection/article_b74c2f70-3bb7-11e0-8a9b-001cc4c002e0.html

Even the UW’s economic impact report includes both.