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Watch the Regents' Health Services Committee of Oct. 18, 2022
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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COVID slowed yours truly down in tracking the Regents' Health Services Committee meeting of October 18, 2028. But as always, we preserved the recording of the meeting since the Regents remove their recordings - for no good reason - after one year.
Public comments were relatively brief and dealt with medical fellows, Catholic and other religiously-affiliated hospitals that have relations with UC, and Peoples Park. EVP for UC Health Carrie Byington presented her usual review of ongoing COVID developments along with discussion of various educational programs and research programs.
"Employee engagement" programs at the various medical campuses were reviewed. I might note that this sort of human resource practice review really borders on a kind of micro-management by the Regents. There was discussion of employee satisfaction data, turnover, and the like. Regent Pérez was more interested in turnover than reported satisfaction. Regent Makarechian was concerned about pay during the current inflation. There was some discussion about pandemic waivers concerning staffing requirements which might expire. As blog readers will know, UCLA has acquired a mid-city health care facility which now will have to be staffed. There was reference to that issue.
Affiliations with Catholic and other religiously-affiliated hospitals received extensive discussion. There were examples of how certain pregnancy complications might arise in such hospitals that could lead to delays in emergencies. Also discussed were nonemergency situations that still might depart from UC norms. It was noted that UC doctors working within such hospitals might encounter problems of obtaining staff assistance in some situations. Regent Pérez indicated that he had been unsuccessful in getting the major affiliated hospital chains to appear in a public session and pushed for them to come. Regent Chair Leib seemed also to want such appearances. EVP Byington hinted that appearance in a closed setting might be more appropriate.
You can see the entire session at the link below:
https://archive.org/details/regents-health-services-committee-10-19-22.
To hear the text above, click on the link below:
https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/regents%20health%20october.mp3
