Wednesday, September 6. 2000 The University Daily Kansan Section A·Page 3 Med Center in negotiations for Menninger partnership By J. D. McKee writer@kanson.com Kansan staff writer The University of Kansas Medical Center is among at least two health care organizations pursuing a partnership with the Menninger Clinic of Topeka. Gov. Bill Graves has been leading an effort to keep the clinic in Kansas after Menninger announced in June that it would have to leave Topeka because of declining revenues. But Patrick Burnau, senior vice president of Meningerian, confirmed that the clinic intended to stay in Topeka, though he said no decision on the national research center had been made. "I do not anticipate a hasty decision." Burnau said. Burnau said Menninger was looking for the best location and the best opportunity to reach out to people nationwide. He also said it would consider the financial resources available, although the main goal for Menninger was to be the preeminent psychiatric group in the nation. Chancellor Robert Memenway said he thought it would be difficult to tell at this point what Menninger would do. "KU and the governor worked hard to put together an attractive proposal to keep Menninger in Kansas," Hemenway said. "But Menninger will still have to decide where its people will be deployed." Menninger also is concerned about maintaining the quality of its clinical care, Hemenway said. Staying in Kansas, however, could have significant advantages. The central benefit, Hemenway said, would be having two major and successful medical organizations coming together. "The sum of the partnership would be greater than the individual parts," Hemenway said. The financial perks the partnership would bring to the University are yet to be determined because a lot of negotiating remains and contracts must be established. Don Brown, communications director for the governor, said he was wary of predicting what Menninger would do. "I'm quite certain that Menninger will look at all the options and take time before making any decisions," Brown said. "This will affect them and the future of thousands of employees." Brown said because of the aggressive path Kansas took, he thought that the Kansas talks were more advanced than others. Kansas has been proactive, Brown said, ever since it became aware of Meninger's situation. But Brown said he was confident that a part of Menninger would remain in Kansas. "We were the first to respond," he said. "We didn't wait for Menninger to come to us and ask what we could do for them." "The key is where the national research center will be," he said. Meningen's executive board is expected to make a final decision by the end of the month, Burnau said. — Edited by Warisa Chulindra The Associated Press KANSAS CITY — The Kidney Institute at the University of Kansas Medical Center received a $1.95 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that will help create a new home for the institute. A matching grant from the University will allow the Kidney Institute to remodel and move into the upper floors of an existing research building at the a touch of Irish in downtown Lawrence Money to be used to remodel, move Kidney Institute receives grant because of excellent science and excellent clinical work," said Jared Grantham, a nephrologist and professor at the Med Center. "We know we have excellent science because we compete with the Harvards and Yales for funding. And we have a kidney transplant program with the best outcomes in a four-state region." The disease affects more than 600,000 Americans each year and is the most common of all life-threatening genetic diseases. Med Center, the institute said. Earlier this year, the Kidney Institute received three National Institutes of Health grants worth about $12 million. Those grants are being used to study polycystic kidney disease, a life-threatening genetic disorder for which there is no known cure or treatment; establish a PKD research center at the medical campus; and conduct magnetic resonance imaging of the kidneys of patients with PKD. "We received those grants Med Center, the institute said. The new home for the Kidney Institute will be about 20,000 square feet, nearly twice the size of the current center. It will bring together 35 researchers who now work at different locations around the campus. The project is scheduled to be complete in winter of 2002. 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