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Kino Hospital collection, 1972-2000

MS 808

Biographical Note

In its June 1994 report the Blue Ribbon Health Care Delivery System Commission (appointed by the Pima County Board of Supervisors) recommended that Pima County develop a fully integrated public health system, maintain Kino Community Hospital as a full-service public hospital and establish a community-based governance body to provide the needed direction and support for the county's health system. As part of the implementation process, the Commission recommended the establishment of an interim decision-making body – the Pima County Integrated Health Care System Coordinating Council – to assume oversight until the legal requirements could be put in place to establish the community-based governance body. Based on Board of Supervisors action taken June 21, 1994 a Pima County Integrated Health Care System Coordinating Council (SCC) was formed.

The SCC's work culminated in its August 1997 proposal to the Board of Supervisors "relative to the Health System Budget, with the stipulated shift in oversight responsibility to the Health System's Chief Executive Officer who shall report through the newly formed quasi-governance body to the Board of Supervisors." The SCC's recommendations were adopted by the Board of Supervisors on March 3, 1998 including the formation of the new governance body, the Pima Health Care System Commission (PHCSC). Dr. Richard Carmona was appointed Interim CEO and later that year was made CEO (he resigned the position in July 1999).

The PHCSC was disbanded around February 2000. Following continued financial difficulties and based on a multiyear agreement between the Board of Supervisors and University Physicians, Inc. (UPI), the physician faculty practice for the University of Arizona College of Medicine, the County's state license authorizing operation of the hospital was transferred to UPI on June 16, 2004.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains materials pertaining to the history of Kino Community Hospital's governance during the years 1994-2000. During this time there was a concerted effort to implement community-based governance of the hospital. Three entities moved this effort forward. They were the Blue Ribbon Health Care Delivery System Commission (1993-1994), the Pima County Integrated Health Care System Coordinating Council (1994-1997) and the Pima Health Care System Commission (1998-2000). The collection consists primarily of correspondence, reports, some handwritten notes and some news media items. It also includes several relevant background documents dated prior to 1993. The collection was compiled by its donor, Ms. Sylvia Campoy, while she successively served as a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission and as chairperson of both the Pima County Integrated Health Care System Coordinating Council and the Pima Health Care System Commission.

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There are no restrictions on this collection.

Copyright

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Kino Hospital collection (MS 808). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries

Processing History

Processed by Michelle Nicole Boyer in 2023.

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