An Arizona House-Senate conference committee approved a proposal to strip the Arizona Board of Regents of authority over hospitals affiliated with UA Healthcare for 18 months, according to an Arizona Daily Sun report.
UA Healthcare is the product of the two-year merger between University Medical Center and University Physicians Healthcare, both in Tucson. The proposal would leave the existing board of UA Healthcare to do what it wants with University Medical Center and Kino Community Hospital, unrestrained by the regents.
The control battle stems from the regents recommendation to shrink the UA board from 27 to nine, and for the new CEO to be a hospital administrator and physician. Some legislators then said the regents were engaged in a power grab.
Sen. Andy Biggs (R-Gilbert), who called the 18-month change in control a “cooling off period,” first crafted a plan to permanently take the regents out of an oversight role and create an entirely new board, with members chosen by Republican legislative leaders and the governor.
Read the Arizona Daily Sun report on UA Healthcare and the Board of Regents.
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– Arizona Senators Want to Change Control of University Medical Center
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