HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	110
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting an audit of the university clinical, education and research associates PROGRAM.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, University Clinical, Education and Research Associates ("UCERA") is a domestic nonprofit corporation that is organized to provide funding to build and sustain the infrastructure of the John A. Burns School of Medicine ("JABSOM") at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; and

 

     WHEREAS, specifically, UCERA is a faculty practice organization that is created to support the clinical, academic, and research activities of JABSOM; and

 

     WHEREAS, among other things, UCERA is organized to provide additional resources to recruit, retain, and develop qualified faculty at the University of Hawaii and to provide healthcare to the general public with special attention to the poor and other underserved populations of Hawaii and the Pacific; and

 

     WHEREAS, UCERA's board of directors consists of the Dean, Vice Dean, and clinical department chairpersons of JABSOM, at-large faculty members, and community representatives, including hospital representatives; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2009, UCERA experienced a $6,900,000 deficit in funding, which eventually required the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to forgive the amount and absorb the debt under its own budget; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Legislature is concerned that the operating practices that caused the $6,900,000 deficit may be continuing; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, the Senate concurring, that the University of Hawaii Office of Internal Audit is requested to conduct an audit of the University Clinical, Education and Research Associates; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the University of Hawaii Office of Internal Audit is requested to submit findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature not later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents, the President of the University of Hawaii System, the Director of the Office of Internal Audit of the University of Hawaii, the Dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, and the President of University Clinical, Education and Research Associates.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

UCERA; Audit