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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s five academic health centers delivered a total of $1.4 billion of community benefits during the 2018-19 reporting period, the most recently completed fiscal year.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Health’s share amounted to nearly $143 million, or about 6 percent of the health system’s total expenses, according to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Health’s . On average, the academic health centers contributed 9.9 percent of their total expenses, which is comparable to benchmark data for a group of 32 academic medical centers nationally, according to a 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ news release.
Examples of community benefits include free or discounted health services, unreimbursed costs for care to Medi-Cal recipients, health professions education, subsidized health services, research, and financial or in-kind support for nonprofit community organizations.
Student regent nominee
Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza, a 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Berkeley transfer student, has been nominated to serve as a student regent, just as she winds up her term as a student representative on the California Community Colleges Board of Governors.
A special regents committee put her name forward last week for consideration by the full board in July. Her term would run for two years, the first (2020-21) as student regent-designate, able to participate in all deliberations, but without a vote; the second (2021-22) as the student regent with voting privileges.
It is this same process by which 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Santa Barbara graduate student Jamaal Muwwakkil gains voting privileges in 2020-21, after serving a year as student regent-designate.
Zaragoza is a geography major at Cal, having transferred in from Modesto Junior College. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation belonging to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and daughter of a Mexican immigrant.
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