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Causes: Health
Mission: The association of chrmc and university physicians, dba children's university medical group (cumg), operates a multi-specialty physician group practice that bills and collects for the clinical services provided by approximately 647 university of washington school of medicine (uwsom) faculty physicians and compensates the employed physicians, pursuant to a 1989 operating agreement between the university of washington (uw), seattle children's hospital (sch), and cumg. Under that operating agreement, cumg pays operating expenses and compensates faculty physicians (the professional members) as directed by uwsom. All remaining revenues are held by cumg solely for the support of uw medicine and sch. Cumg is a washington state not for profit, federally tax-exempt corporation formed in 1986 to support uwsom and sch in the fulfillment of their respective pediatric patient care, charitable, educational, and scientific missions.
Programs: Physicians and other health care practitioners (together, professional members) of cumg provide clinical health care services to pediatric patients at seattle children's hospital, uw medicine facilities, and other sites of practice approved by the ceo of uw medicine, evp for medical affairs and dean of the university of washington school of medicine (uw medicine ceo) and ceo of seattle children's hospital. Cumg professional members provide primary, specialty, and subspecialty clinical care to communities that would not otherwise have access to sufficient clinical resources. Cumg provides significant undercompensated and charity care, consistent with the charity care policy of the facility in which the clinical care is provided.