{"id":145662,"date":"2021-07-28T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=145662"},"modified":"2021-07-28T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T23:59:49","slug":"uh-queens-affiliation-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/28\/uh-queens-affiliation-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>, Queen\u2019s Health Systems agreement expands medical education, research"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_145664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145664\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/manoa-jabsom-exterior-rainbow.jpg\" alt=\"jabsom exterior with rainbow\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/manoa-jabsom-exterior-rainbow.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/manoa-jabsom-exterior-rainbow-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/manoa-jabsom-exterior-rainbow-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and The Queen\u2019s Health Systems (Queen\u2019s) announced a three-party affiliation agreement between <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (<abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>), Queen\u2019s and University Health Partners of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> (<abbr>UHP<\/abbr>). This affiliation agreement, expected to be operational by September, will expand medical education and research, engage the next generation of healthcare professionals and improve the health and well-being of the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> is currently working with another one of its valued healthcare partners, Hawaii Pacific Health, to develop a separate affiliation addressing the departments of Pediatrics, <abbr title=\"obstetrics and gynecology\">OB\/GYN<\/abbr> and Family Medicine. <\/p>\n<p>The new affiliation agreement with Queen\u02bbs will benefit patients and the community by: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strengthening and enhancing the education of the next generation of medical students, residents, fellows and other health professionals in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Attracting and retaining talented faculty, physicians and researchers in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Expanding clinical and research programs and providing opportunities to create innovative models of care. <\/li>\n<li>Enhancing teaching, research and community service missions.<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging and creating pathways for the next generation of healthcare professionals to provide care in our state.<\/li>\n<li>Improving each organization\u2019s ability to meet the needs of vulnerable communities and address health inequities.<\/li>\n<li>Accelerating the achievement of improving the overall health of communities served.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A key component of this affiliation agreement is the creation of a combined physician group to be named The Queen\u2019s University Medical Group (<abbr>QUMG<\/abbr>). This group of more than 450 providers, representing 17 specialties, will further strengthen high quality, compassionate care, innovation, research and education in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the <abbr>QUMG<\/abbr>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> faculty will be employed and supported by <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s largest clinical site for training medical students and more than 100 residents and fellows from <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>. Queen\u2019s will ensure the medical group has the support needed to meet educational needs. <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> will oversee the academic activities of the faculty, and <abbr>UHP<\/abbr> will help sustain support of <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>\u2019s teaching and research mission.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This opportunity to align the clinical care and academic roles of those working at Queen\u2019s to enhance training of our learners will transform medical education and research at <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>. We look forward to working with Queen\u2019s through this new affiliation to help support <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s healthcare training and service needs for the future,&rdquo; said <strong>Jerris Hedges<\/strong>, dean of <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By unifying our practices, we will strengthen the education and development of the next  generation of caregivers in a culturally grounded way, infuse research and innovation into our delivery systems, and expand and improve key clinical programs,&rdquo; said Jill Hoggard Green, <abbr title=\"chief executive officer\">CEO<\/abbr> of The Queen\u2019s Health Systems. &ldquo;We look forward to enhancing our already strong and longstanding partnerships with the university to achieve our shared goal of  improving the health of our communities, both now and in the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The affiliation agreement will also engage the next generation of healthcare professionals and improve the health and well-being of the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1307,31,1286,1106,9],"class_list":["post-145662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-family-medicine-and-community-health","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-obstetrics-and-gynecology","tag-pediatrics","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145675,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145662\/revisions\/145675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}