Regents committee recommends restructuring of UC Health’s governing body

By Suhauna Hussain

The UC Board of Regents’ Committee on Health and Governance met Wednesday to discuss the restructuring of the UC Health governing body, which could expand to include nonregent voting members.

The changes, which include the creation of a policy and proposed amendments to a bylaw and standing order, are aimed at providing increased oversight to UC Health’s governing process. In November, the board will decide whether to recommend that the Committee on Health Services, which exercises primary jurisdiction over UC Health clinical enterprise, be restructured to incorporate members with relevant expertise.

The committee, as the recommendation currently outlines, would be assigned new responsibilities and consist of 13 members total, including six regents, the executive vice president of UC Health, two chancellors whose campuses include medical centers and four nonvoting advisory members.

Regent William Pena — along with several other board members, including Regents John Perez and Bruce Varner — said at the meeting that while it is useful to have outside advisers, he does not think the nonregent members should have a vote, elaborating that it isn’t prudent to have nonregents vote in a position of delegated authority to spend significant amounts of money.

“I would be hard-pressed to support any proposal that waters down the regents’ ability to make decisions,” said Regent Eloy Ortiz Oakley at the meeting.

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[Source]: Daily Californian