It might be noted that Regent Blum did not attend. He also was not at the previous full board meeting when he was due to be censured for activities related to student admissions and was reported to be ill at the time. (The action on censure was removed from the agenda of that meeting.) He may still be ill.
Public comments covered bicycling for health, nurse staffing, nurse layoffs, and physician labor negotiations. A report followed by UC Health VP Carrie Byington on affiliation with Catholic hospitals. She then went on to discuss the coronavirus situation. That report was followed by discussion of the UC-Riverside School of Medicine.
Prof. David Hayes-Bautista of UCLA discussed the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Latino population. He noted that by various measures, the Latino population has better health-related outcomes than the general population despite economic disadvantage. He attributed these outcomes to lifestyle effects. However, the Latino population was disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
At the end of the meeting, there was a brief presentation on clinical quality.
As always, we preserve the recordings of the meetings indefinitely since the Regents preserve their meetings for only one year. You can see the meeting at the links below:
Full meeting:
https://archive.org/details/regents-health-services-committee-part-1-10-20-21.
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