City of Corona
Staff Report
400 S. Vicentia Ave.
Corona, CA 92882
File #: 22-0427
REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION
DATE: 04/18/2022
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: City Manager’s Office
SUBJECT:
Letter of Support for California Senate Bill 1199 - the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine Teaching Hospital.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The City Council will consider a letter of support for Senate Bill 1199, sponsored by California State Senator Roth, to secure an acute care teaching hospital in the County of Riverside for the purpose of training University of California, Riverside School of Medicine (UCR SOM) medical students, medical residents, and medical fellows. UCR SOM’s current model relies on community health partners for clinical slots and residency training programs.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
That the City Council authorize the Mayor to sign and submit a letter of support for Senate Bill 1199 to secure an acute care teaching hospital in the County of Riverside for the purpose of training University of California, Riverside School of Medicine medical students, medical residents, and medical fellows.
BACKGROUND & HISTORY:
California State Sen. Roth introduced Senate Bill 1199 (SB 1199) on February 17, 2022, for the purpose of securing an acute teaching hospital in the County of Riverside. Existing law establishes the University of California (UC), 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 ten (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 (UCR), School of Medicine medical students, medical residents, and medical fellows.
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ANALYSIS:
A physician shortage issue is one that affects the entire state. It is projected that the State of California will be short 4,700 primary-care physicians by 2025 and 8,800 by 2030. In the rapidly growing and ethnically diverse area of Inland Southern California, the shortage is particularly severe, with just thirty-five (35) primary care physicians per 100,000 patients, far fewer than the recommended range of sixty (60) to eighty (80) primary care physicians per 100,000 patients. In real numbers, Inland Southern California has a shortfall of 1,500 primary care physicians.
At the time of its inception in 2013, the UCR School of Medicine (UCR SOM) was the first new public medical school in California in more than forty years. However, UCR SOM is the only UC medical school without an accompanying teaching hospital. With the current model of relying on community health partners for clinical slots and residency training programs, UCR SOM is reliant on these partners and the staffing and capacity limits of the Inland Southern California region’s healthcare delivery system.
A teaching hospital training facility is critical to the success of the UCR SOM mission because it is well recognized that where physicians train, they remain and practice medicine. The class of 2021 saw eighty-six (86) percent of students stay in California, and thirty-eight (38) percent remain in Inland Southern California for their residency program. Our region can further increase the number of students who stay and train if UCR had its own teaching hospital to provide clinical training slots and residency training programs.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
No financial impact.
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS:
This action is exempt pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the Guidelines for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which states that a project is exempt from CEQA if the activity is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects that have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the action is not subject to CEQA. This action supports establishing the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine Teaching Hospital, and there is no possibility that approval of the report will have a significant effect on the environment. Therefore, no environmental analysis is required.
PREPARED BY: DENZEL MAXWELL, ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER REVIEWED BY: ROGER BRADLEY, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER
Attachments:
1. Letter of Support for Senate Bill 1199 (Roth) - the University of California, Riverside School of medicine Teaching Hospital
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