Kansas University Hospital leaders say they’re close to a “broad outline of an agreement” with Kansas University Medical Center in the contentious, ongoing negotiations that will shape the hospital and school’s future.

The hospital’s president and CEO, Irene Cumming, delivered that message this morning in Kansas City during a briefing to the hospital’s board. The tentative agreement includes a commitment by the hospital to contribute roughly $12 million more to the medical center next year for an additional 39.5 residency positions, with the goal of adding 75 more in coming years, KU Hospital spokesman Dennis McCulloch said.

In addition, the two have agreed that the group of outpatient medical clinics associated with the school, Kansas University Physicians, Inc., will become aligned with the hospital’s physicians in one organization. That would remove the physicians’ group from under the medical center’s control, McCulloch said.

The hospital board did not take any action. McCulloch said details of the agreement still need to be worked out, including what it means for Saint Luke’s hospital, with which the medical school plans to begin a new affiliation.

“The broad outlines of an agreement are close, but the hospital wants to make sure that the details and the direction of these broad outlines and the intent of them are really agreed upon,” McCulloch said.