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MWD-75-86 1 (1975-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaasv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: r ~COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES 0,1 B-164011(5) JUN 2 1975 The Honorable Paul Findley House of Representatives Dear Mr. Findley: As your office requested,- we have reviewed the adequacy of an audit of the Illinois Trauma Program by Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) auditors. Because your request was prompted by various allegations of improper expenditure and mismanagement of Federal funds spent on program activities, we also reviewed related reports on financial audits, investigations, and management reviews of the program since it became operational in 1971. The reports reviewed were prepared by HEW, the Illinois Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. The program's goal was to develop 45 hospital centers or trauma centers throughout Illinois. The trauma centers were to be staffed and equipped to handle the complex needs of the critically injured. Trans- portation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.provided about $4 million in Federal funding to the program for the basic network components of trauma care centers. In June 1972 HEW awarded the Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Emergency Medical Services and Highway Safety, a 3-year, $4 million demonstration contract to expand the trauma care system to all categories of emergent disease and to strengthen and integrate subsystems of hospitals into a total statewide emergency medical system. HEW INTERIM AUDIT In April 1974 the HEW Audit Agency initiated an interim audit of HEW's contract with the Illinois Department of Public Health for the trauma program. The audit's purpose was to determine whether costs incurred under the contract were reasonable, allocable, and allowable under applicable HEW regulations and the terms of the contract. At the time of the audit, about $1.3 million had been expended under the $4 million contract. The audit was not designed to investigate specific allegations or to assess the program's effectiveness. D q !Mp MWD- 75-86

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