Watch the Regents' Special Session - Morning of June 23

As we have noted in earlier postings, the Regents had an unusual off-cycle meeting yesterday via Zoom, mainly to deal with the issue of UC Health's partnership with Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital system that won't perform certain procedures such as abortion for religious reasons.

The morning session of the full board, however, did not have official regental discussion of that matter, although it did occupy most of the public comment period. Among the opponents of a continued partnership was state senator Wiener who spoke in the public comments. Others made similar arguments. But there were individuals on the other side, including representatives and patients from Dignity. Apart from the main issue, there was a comment on the use of fetal tissue for research and another related to construction of student housing. 

There was then a meeting of the Health Services Committee which followed the usual format. There was discussion of the coronavirus situation, the use of CRISPR technology with regard to sickle cell and other diseases, and community benefits provided by UC Health. Certain construction was approved for UC-San Francisco and Children's Hospital.

As usual, we have preserved the recording of the meeting since the Regents "archive" their recordings for only one year. You can see the morning session at:

https://archive.org/details/regents-board-health-services-committee-6-23-21-am-2