DHR Health terminates medical school partnership with UTRGV, official details - KVEO-TV

by: Alejandra Yanez

Posted: Oct 12, 2022 / 01:54 PM CDT

Updated: Oct 12, 2022 / 01:54 PM CDT

EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — DHR Health has terminated an statement with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, ending its relation arsenic a teaching tract for school’s residents and fellows, according to a assemblage email obtained by ValleyCentral.

According to the interior email sent by UTRGV president Guy Bailey, the assemblage learned of the termination Monday.

“This benignant of termination betwixt wellness systems and universities is not unusual,” Bailey wrote, “but successful the tone of transparency, we wanted you to perceive the quality from america first.”

DHR Health was not instantly disposable for comment.

The improvement is portion of UTRGV’s “natural improvement and undoubtedly reflects the information that our healthcare ngo nary longer aligns with a for-profit, physician-owned wellness strategy similar DHR Health,” Bailey wrote.

UTRGV and DHR Health person been partnered since May of 201, the president wrote. UTRGV has affiliation agreements with 3 different hospitals crossed the Rio Grande Valley.

For residents and fellows of the hospital, UTRGV said it is moving to notify the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education of the termination and vouches to “support programs during this modulation period.”

Healthcare for patients nether the attraction of a UTRGV-employed doc located astatine DHR Health volition not beryllium instantly affected, Bailey’s email stated. However, helium explained that, eventually, the assemblage volition modulation those physicians to a UTRGV site.