The full Board of Regents and its Health Services Committee met via Zoom on Tuesday, December 14. The full Board met twice. In the morning, it heard public comments. After the Health Services meeting, it approved an item protecting UC employees' retirement benefits from adverse impacts of temporary furloughs and layoffs due to the coronavirus crisis. There were also closed session described - based on the agenda - in a prior posting on this blog.*
During public comments, the Regents heard statements on student health, infertility benefits for students, neurodivergent student accommodations, disabled students, patient safety and overworked nurses, exposure to coronavirus and testing of nurses for coronavirus, PPE, a discrimination grievance, and a UC-San Francisco construction project.
During the meeting of Health Services, there were statements by UC president Drake on health care and on climate change. Executive VP Carrie Byington spoke generally about the coronavirus situation, lost UC Health revenue due to the coronavirus, and the new vaccines. UCLA Assistant Professor Tranh Neville spoke about ICU issues and end-of-life care.
As usual, yours truly has preserved the audio of the sessions indefinitely since the Regents keep their recordings for only one year. You can hear the audio of the first full Board meeting and the subsequent Health Services meeting at:
You can hear the second full Board meeting at:
https://archive.org/details/1-board-health-services-committee-12-15-20/2-Regents+12-15-20+Board.mp3
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/12/mini-regents-meeting-on-tuesday.html
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