I am pleased to honor your request. The table below breaks out FY15 projected spending by spending category. 

It shows the consolidated spending from two types of funding sources: the hospital’s allocation from line item 4590-0915 in the FY15 General Appropriation Act, which also funds the Tewksbury Hospital, the Massachusetts Hospital School and the State Office of Pharmacy Services. 

It also includes revenues generated by reimbursement from state and county correctional health care systems for services rendered to inmates and detainees. 

The budget is developed to support a clinical mission that provided over 82,000 inpatient days and 16,000 outpatient encounters this fiscal year. 

The exact budgets for the other state agencies that contribute to the hospital’s mission would need to be obtained from them, as I can only access the portion of the budget that the Legislature funds through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

As a brief overview, the object codes that delineate different budget categories can be summarized as follows:

·         The hospital’s payroll (object code AA) pays the salaries for approximately 545 full-time equivalent employees.

·         Object code EE funds administrative supplies used by all hospital departments, from paper clips to copy machines and journal subscriptions.

·         Object code FF funds operational supplies, the most costly of which are pharmaceuticals ($5M), followed by supplies for the O.R. and clinical laboratory.

·         Object code JJ funds operational contracts for dietary services, laundry, reference lab testing and other services procured using the Commonwealth’s contracting procedures.

·         Object code HH funds services provided by individual contractors for services such as billing compliance.

·         Object code LL funds leased or rented equipment for medical beds and medical equipment maintenance.

·         Object code MM funds medical service contracts for internists and sub-specialists, temporary nurses, respiratory care therapists, the medical residency program and operating room clinicians.

·         Object code NN supports the maintenance and repair needs of the hospital.

Object Code	Object Code Descriptor
AA	Salaries	42,835,530
BB	Employee Expense	15,000
CC	Special Contract	19,704
DD	Workers Comp/Ins	741,468
EE	Administrative Expense	348,049
FF	Operational Expense	9,575,199
GG	Utilities	2,400,735
HH	Consultants	346,245
JJ	Professional Consultant	4,822,314
KK	Equipment	119,526
LL	Lease/Maintenance	1,299,186
MM	Direct Care Consultants	10,209,922
NN	Infrastructure	1,300,352
RR	Client Services	92,568
	TOTAL	74,061,797

Thank you for your inquiry. I hope this information is responsive to your question.

Paul Romary, CEO

Lemuel Shattuck Hospital

170 Morton St.

Jamaica Plain, MA  02130

617-971-3201