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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #975 |
| Operational Support for the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital |
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| Requester: |
Dean Joseph A. DiPietro |
Organization: |
College of Veterinary Medicine University of Florida |
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| Project Title: |
Operational Support for the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital |
Date Submitted |
1/15/2004 9:21:14 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Smith |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| The teaching hospital is a statewide resource, which accepts referral from Pensacola to Key West. It provides top-notch care for domestic animals such as dogs, cats, and horses as well as animals from the wide array of zoological and theme parks in the state including alligators, tigers, and bears, ornamental fish, endangered wildlife, and marine animals. Other activities in the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) address animal health and enhance productivity of food animals including diary and beef cattle. |
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| Recipient: |
College of Veterinary Medicine University of Florida |
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Contact: |
Joseph A DiPietro |
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2015 SW 16th Avenue |
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Contact Phone: |
(352) 392-4700 |
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Gainesville 32610 |
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Contact email: |
dipietro@mail.vetmed.ufl.edu |
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| Counties: |
Alachua |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| Funds are requested to improve support of the operation of the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital (VMTH). Justification for this request is based on costs that have increased over the last five years associated with teaching veterinary students and training house officers in the facility. Annually, the VMTH must absorb $1,530,000 in costs by writing-off bad debt and indigent care ($50,000), residency training programs ($1,000,000) as well as costs associated with training DVM students in the hospital ($175,000 in necropsy costs associated with hospital deaths, $55,000 in infection control and $250,000 in teaching subsidies). In reality, the VMTH is a teaching laboratory where clinical training is provided for DVM students and residents. VMTH patient care programs are essential and critical to the college's training programs. The hospital also provides a forum for clinical research activities and translational research in which basic research discoveries are taken from the bench and applied to patients. |
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| Is this a water project as described in Chapter 2002-291, Laws of Florida? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Improved services for citizens who seek VMTH services for their animals and enhanced educational experiences for DVM students and clinical trainees. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$300,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$300,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
None |
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Cash Amount |
$ |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$300,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
Documentation provided to univ. vice-presidents justifying this need during 2003 Program Reviews. |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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No |
