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A number of you have shared questions and concerns about how new federal policies may impact patient care, research, service, teaching and learning at UW Medicine. We are committed to supporting our community while navigating this uncertain terrain, and to sharing information as transparently and swiftly as possible. UW Medicine leaders are working closely with UW leadership, the Washington Attorney General’s Office, and our external affairs team to closely evaluate and monitor federal policy changes and the possible impacts they could have on our work. It is important that we remain aligned and coordinated in our response and communications given the rapidly changing environment so that we can provide informed updates and guide our decisions. To ensure you can stay informed with the most recent updates in real time, we have developed an information hub, UW Medicine Federal Policy Updates page (UW NetID required), where we will post the most recent communications, updates, FAQs, resources and other relevant information for the UW Medicine community. I also want to address four areas in which we are receiving many questions:
I will be providing regular communications such as this when appropriate, to keep you apprised and informed of new information as it becomes available, and to answer questions you have. To ensure we best understand your questions and concerns around federal policy changes, we have created this form, which you can use to share them with us. You will have the option to share anonymously. Your feedback will help ensure we are able to be most responsive to our community’s needs. Thank you for all that you do to support our mission of improving the health of the public for all people, and thank you for continuing to support one another. Sincerely, Timothy H. Dellit, MD (He, Him, His) |