Getting Care at Affiliated Organizations

Presidential Policy on Affiliations with Certain Healthcare Organizations

At UCR Health, we want you to be fully informed about your health care options.

We have affiliations with other health care organizations in order to help patients in many communities access high-quality care. However, some of these organizations have policies that are different from those of UCR Health. For example, some restrict certain diagnostic or treatment services, such as elective abortions and end-of-life care.

Examples of some but not all affiliated organizations that have such policies include Dignity St. Bernadine’s Medical Center, Loma Linda University Health, and certain government-operated facilities. Affiliate sites are subject to change from time to time.

UCR Health is committed to delivering comprehensive medical care that meets patients' needs and promotes health equity. Accordingly, our agreements with these organizations make it clear that UCR School of Medicine and UCR Health staff members, faculty, and trainees working at one of these facilities will have the ability and right to:

• Make clinical decisions consistent with the standard of care and their independent professional judgment, respecting each individual patient’s needs and wishes.
• Inform patients of all their health care options, prescribe any interventions that are medically necessary and appropriate, and transfer or refer patients to other facilities when they determine it is in the patient’s interest.
• Provide any item or service they deem necessary and appropriate in the event of an emergency.

You’ll be informed if a UCR Health provider refers you to an organization with service-restricting policies. We encourage you to ask that organization questions about the restrictions, which may include services such as abortion, end-of-life care, and gender-affirming care. You may seek alternatives for care at UC Health facilities and elsewhere.

For more information, see the full text of the UC Regents’ Policy on Affiliations With Healthcare Organizations That Have Adopted Policy-Based Restrictions on Care and UC Interim Policy on Affiliations with Certain Healthcare Organizations.

For questions, concerns, and or grievances related to affiliating with policy-based restrictions on care, please contact the UCR Health Compliance Advisory Services department via phone at: (951) 827-5733 or via email to: somcompliance@medsch.ucr.edu.