Press Enterprise: Hospital for UC Riverside’s medical school is ‘absolutely critical,’ legislator says

" Since UC Riverside’s medical school debuted in 2013 with the dream of expanding healthcare access in the underserved Inland Empire region, the university has relied on partnerships with area hospitals to provide hands-on training.

“They call it locally a hospital without walls,” state Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, said. But that arrangement, Roth said, isn’t going to work much longer.

....... Roth lobbied colleagues in the just-completed legislative session to authorize a UCR hospital — somewhere in Riverside County, not necessarily on the campus or even in the city of Riverside — by approving Senate Bill 1199. The bill he co-sponsored with Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, R-Yucaipa, easily passed the Senate, 39-0, in late May."

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