{"id":31213,"date":"2015-02-02T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=31213"},"modified":"2021-10-06T15:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T01:43:54","slug":"uh-cancer-center-report-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/02\/uh-cancer-center-report-released\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center report released"},"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_11512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11512\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cancer-center.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cancer-center.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cancer-center-260x152.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Report on the Review of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhcancercenter.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center<\/a><\/em> was completed and officially presented on Tuesday, January 27 to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> leadership including <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Vice Chancellor for Research Brian Taylor, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> John A. Burns School of Medicine Dean and Interim Cancer Center Director Jerris Hedges and\u00a0<abbr>UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/UHCancer-Center-Review-Report.pdf\" title=\"Report on the Review of the University of Hawaii Cancer Center\">Download the full report<\/a><br \/> (4 <abbr>MB<\/abbr> <abbr>PDF<\/abbr>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As an advisory report it does not represent the position of the university and is not an action plan. However, it will greatly assist the university in developing the next steps to maintain the center&#8217;s National Cancer Institute (<abbr>NCI<\/abbr>) designation to\u00a0continue to advance the quality of care available to cancer patients in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This report is completely unfiltered and reflects the findings of a group of objective and committed members of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> community who care deeply about <abbr>UH<\/abbr> and the cancer center. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> leadership commends and thanks the task force members for their careful and thoughtful work.<\/p>\n<p>The report&#8217;s goal was to consider the <abbr>UH<\/abbr><abbr> Cancer Center mission and performance to date. That included assessing the financial resources, human resources, facilities, policies, practices and management capabilities currently in place and necessary to ensure the future success of the <\/abbr><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center in its mission to serve <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. The review was intended to clarify and identify the requirements for near-term renewal and long-term designation as an <abbr>NCI<\/abbr> cancer center.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> leadership had already begun addressing some of the issues identified in the report and fully recognizes that there is an urgent need to develop a viable business and operational plan for the current situation. \u00a0The report and initial steps will be discussed at the next meeting of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/audit\/\">Committee on Independent Audit<\/a>, currently planned for February 12, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Task force Report on the Review of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center presented to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28],"tags":[169,9],"class_list":["post-31213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","tag-uh-cancer-center","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\/31213","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=31213"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149345,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31213\/revisions\/149345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}