18A:64G-2 - Findings
18A:64G-2. Findings
2. The Legislature and Governor of the State of New Jersey hereby find that the establishment and operation of programs of medical, dental, nursing, health related professions and health sciences education is in the best interest of the State to provide greater numbers of trained medical personnel to assist in the staffing of the hospitals and public institutions and agencies of the State and to prepare greater numbers of students for the general practice of medicine, dentistry, nursing and the health related professions, and find, declare and affirm, as a matter of public policy of the State, that it is the responsibility of the State to provide funds necessary to establish and operate such programs of education, in the most economical and efficient manner, and that, in furtherance of such policy, the school of medicine heretofore established by Rutgers, The State University, (hereinafter called the "Rutgers Medical School") and the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry shall be combined into a single entity to be known as the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
The university shall be comprised of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of Health Related Professions, the New Jersey Dental School, the School of Osteopathic Medicine, the New Jersey Medical School and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and all other departments or schools established by the university in accordance with law.
The Legislature and Governor further find and declare that the continuing development of the university as a premier academic health center, able to provide state of the art education, research and patient care services and able to fully participate in today's health-care environment, is in the best interest of the State. Because of the importance of each element of the health-care delivery system, it is the university's obligation to monitor, to identify and to coordinate with the appropriate State agencies and boards to meet the health-care manpower needs of New Jersey as they arise. A key element necessary to the achievement of many of these goals is the structural flexibility to form productive and varied relationships with other health-care organizations, research institutions and private individuals, firms and corporations.
The Legislature and Governor further find that such public-private relationships should be encouraged since these cooperative efforts will enable the university to supplement the resources available from the State and thereby provide the university with an economic and efficient means to develop and offer an appropriate range of health-care services.
L.1970,c.102,s.2; amended 1981,c.325,s.1; 1992,c.84,s.2; 1994,c.48,s.164.