Bill Text: CA SB1199 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine: teaching hospital.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-02 - Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. [SB1199 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB1199-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1199
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February 17, 2022 |
An act to add Article 1.7 (commencing with Section 92608) to Chapter 6 of Part 57 of Division 9 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1199, as amended, Roth.
University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine: teaching hospital.
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The University of California provides instruction and performs research at the 10 campuses it operates and maintains in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
This bill would authorize the Regents of the University of California to expend money, upon appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, to secure an acute care teaching hospital in the County of Riverside through acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, lease, management, or operating agreement to serve as an academic medical center for the purpose of training University of California, Riverside, School of
Medicine medical students, medical residents, and medical fellows.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) As used in this section, the following(1) “Inland southern California” means a region in southern California east of the Los Angeles metropolitan area that is composed of the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino.
(2) “UCR” is the University of California, Riverside.
(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) The state’s supply of primary care physicians is significantly below what is considered sufficient to meet patient needs.
(2) In the rapidly growing and ethnically diverse area of inland southern California, the shortage is particularly severe, with just 35 primary care physicians per 100,000 patients, far fewer than the recommended range of 60 to 80 primary care physicians per 100,000 patients.
(3) In real numbers, inland southern California has a shortfall of 1,500 primary care physicians and a shortfall of 331/3 percent in specialist physicians.
(4) According to the California Health Care Foundation, 72 percent of the state’s counties have an undersupply of primary care physicians, with primary care physicians making up just 34 percent of the state’s physician workforce.
(5) The UCR School of Medicine opened in August 2013, and subsequently received provisional accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the nationally recognized accrediting body for medical education programs leading to doctor of medicine degrees in the United States and Canada. At the time UCR School of Medicine opened, it was the first new public medical school in the state in more than 40 years.
(6) The UCR School of Medicine, as a community-based medical school, has a
public mission to expand and diversify the physician workforce and improve the health of people living in inland southern California. The UCR School of Medicine has also made a commitment to serve underserved patient populations.
(7) While state funding to support continued operation of the UCR School of Medicine was initially limited due to budgetary constraints, the state has recently committed significant resources to the UCR School of Medicine to aid in expansion with both a new facility and ongoing resources to accommodate increased student capacity.
(8) As a final step to properly securing the future of the UCR School of Medicine and provide long-term sustainable operational funding, the UCR School of Medicine must secure an acute care teaching hospital in the County of
Riverside to provide a secure public base of clinical training slots for the UCR School of Medicine’s students and critical UCR School of Medicine primary and secondary residency training programs.
(9) This teaching hospital and training facility is critical to the success of the UCR School of Medicine’s mission because it is well recognized that where physicians train, they remain and practice medicine.
(10) The Budget Act of 2021 appropriated $10,000,000 in one-time funding for the UCR School of Medicine to initiate the process of securing an acute care teaching hospital.
SEC. 2.
Article 1.7 (commencing with Section 92608) is added to Chapter 6 of Part 57 of Division 9 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read:Article 1.7 UCR School of Medicine Teaching Hospital
92608.
(a) The Regents of the University of California may expend money, upon appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, to secure an acute care teaching hospital in the County of Riverside through acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, lease, management, or operating agreement to serve as an academic medical center for the purpose of training UCR School of Medicine medical students, medical residents, and medical fellows.(b) As used in this section, “UCR” means the University of California, Riverside.
