Susan,

For this pending application (and for future ones), consider where the fiscal management of the project will "live" within your organization. The accountability for the project will be tied to such things as your organization's federal tax identity number, so if the preponderance of the project's costs will occur in the hospital side of the organization (as opposed to within the foundation or the parent company), this is probably where you should focus.

Consider also that the organizational entity which applies will also be the organizational entity which accepts the responsibility for compliance matters. Such issues as research misconduct policies, human subjects regulations, etc., are more likely to be administered, tracked and supported in the entity which would have the relevant authority.
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Molly Daniel
Grants Specialist
Planning Department
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center
1000 Health Center Drive
Mattoon, IL  61938
tel. 217.258.2195
fax 217.258.4135
email: xxxxxx@sblhs.org
http://www.sarahbush.org

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org]On Behalf
> Of Susan Sutherland, Ph.D.
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:20 PM
> To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
> Subject: [RESADM-L] Identification of SO
>
>
> Dear fellow administrators,
>
> First, let me start by saying that I am a real novice at NIH
> submissions, and hope that you all will pardon the apparent
> simplicity of my question.
>
> Our hospital is preparing to submit our first electronic
> proposal, and we've run into a stumbling block in simply
> registering at Grants.Gov and eRA commons. There is a
> discussion among several people as to which
> hospital-associated entity should be responsible for the
> application,  who should be the signatory official, etc.
>
> The 3-entities are (1) the Hospital itself, (2) the Hospital
> Foundation, and (3) the Parent company, consisting of
> multiple hospitals, real estate holdings, investments, etc.
>
> In case it is important, I should mention the research is to
> be performed in the hospital by hospital employees.
>
> Thanks for sharing your expertise!  Please feel free to
> e-mail off-line if you prefer.
>
> -Susan
> xxxxxx@msj.org
>
>
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