Reaviz passed accreditation in a year. How the only private medical school fights for survival

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On May 31, the Eleventh Arbitration Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the court of first instance, which satisfied on March 10 the application of the Private Institution of an Educational Organization (PEOO) of Higher Education (VO) Medical University Reaviz (Reaviz) to the Territorial Body of Roszdravnadzor for the Samara Region. on the recognition of illegal non-normative act. Until March 10, Rosobrnadzor confirmed to the Regional Analytical Weekly (OAU) Khronograph the information that Reaviz had been deprived of state accreditation by that time. The reason was that the university did not eliminate the identified inconsistencies of its educational programs with federal state educational standards.

To the Arbitration Court of the Samara Region. On December 20, 2016, Reaviz received a statement containing a request to recognize the actions of the Territorial Body of Roszdravnadzor for the Samara Region as illegal. Namely, the issuance of an order based on the results of an audit conducted on December 7, 2016. On March 1, the arbitration court began to consider the case on the merits, and on March 10 it fully satisfied the requirements of Reaviz. Prior to the consideration of the case, representatives of the university tried through the court to obtain the imposition of interim measures on the operation of the order, but to no avail.

In response to the head of Roszdravnadzor for the Samara region. Alexandra Antimonova it is written: “In the course of an unscheduled documentary check of the Reaviz CHOOO, on the basis of an appeal received from a citizen of the TO of Roszdravnadzor in the Samara region. gross violations of licensing requirements were revealed, namely, a violation of the procedure for providing medical care in the field of "children's surgery" when providing medical care to a child by a specialist doctor who does not have the appropriate training. But this is not the only violation committed by the medical school.

On December 16, 2016, Rosobrnadzor distributed information about organizations engaged in educational activities that are completely deprived of state accreditation. The list indicates PIOO VO "Medical University" Reaviz ". Some time later, the following information appeared on the official website of the educational institution: “On the website of Rosobrnadzor on the Internet in the News section on December 16, 2016, information appeared about the deprivation of the Reaviz Medical University of state accreditation. The University has not received any official notification of the withdrawal of state accreditation. In addition, there were no inspections by the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in relation to the Reaviz Medical University in 2016. ” Also in a message signed by the Rector of the University Nikolai Lysov stated: "In order to quickly protect the legal rights of the University and our students, a complaint will be sent to the Prosecutor General's Office about the illegal actions of Rosobrnadzor and a new statement of claim to the court in the near future."

The Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor), in order to inform students, informs about organizations engaged in educational activities, to which the following measures were applied in the period from December 02 to December 15, 2016 based on the results of the inspections.

According to the results of the inspections of the information contained in the notification of the elimination by the organization carrying out educational activities of the identified non-compliance by Rosobrnadzor, including with the participation of the Accreditation Commission, the following are completely deprived of state accreditation:

1. Almetyevsk branch of PEI HE "Kazan Innovative University named after V.G. Timiryasov (IEUP)";

2. Volgograd branch of AOCHU VO "Moscow Finance and Law University MFYuA";

3. Orsk branch of AOCHU VO "Moscow Finance and Law University MFUA";

4. branch of the St. Petersburg State University of Economics in Kizlyar;

5. branch of the St. Petersburg State University of Economics in Veliky Novgorod;

6. PIOO VO "Medical University" Reaviz ".

For non-fulfillment of the order within the established time limits, Rosobrnadzor prohibited admission to:

1. branch of OANO VO "Moscow Psychological and Social University" in the city of Elektrostal;

2. PEI VO "St. Petersburg Institute of Economics, Culture and Business Administration";

3. At VO "International Humanitarian and Technical Academy";

4. PEI VO "Ural Humanitarian Institute";

5. Chu VO "Economic and Legal Institute";

6. OANO VO "Moscow Psychological and Social University", Murom;

7. PEI VO "St. Petersburg Institute of Hospitality".

Rosobrnadzor suspended the license to carry out educational activities:

1. NIGHT VPO Lipetsk Institute of Management.

Reference:

A license for the right to conduct educational activities is issued to the university by Rosobrnadzor and confirms its right to provide services for the implementation of educational programs. In case of its cancellation, the university is obliged to stop educational activities.

The presence of a certificate of state accreditation at the university confirms the compliance of the activities of the higher educational institution with federal state educational standards. In case of suspension or deprivation of state accreditation, the university can still conduct educational activities and issue documents of its own sample. At the same time, the university cannot issue diplomas of the sample established by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and guarantee students a deferment from military service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation upon conscription.

In case of suspension or cancellation of a license, as well as suspension or deprivation of an educational organization of state accreditation, the founder of the university is obliged to ensure the transfer of students, with their written consent, to other higher educational institutions for state-accredited programs in similar areas of training while maintaining all the conditions of study (form and course as well as tuition fees).

Suspension of state accreditation applies to all structural divisions and branches of the educational institution. Admission to an educational organization is prohibited in case of non-compliance with the instructions of Rosobrnadzor.

The ban on the admission of students does not impose other restrictions on the educational activities of the university. For violation of the rights of students provided for by the legislation on education, including the right to transfer in the event of suspension of state accreditation, the educational organization is liable in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Samara non-state medical university "Reaviz" has reached the finish line in a three-year-long conflict with Rosobrnadzor. More than a dozen thematic lawsuits were considered in various courts, including the Supreme Court, and Reaviz managed to challenge the original order from 2016 that deprived it of accreditation. However, Rosobrnadzor continues to defend the validity of its other claims issued by various orders - now in the appellate instance of the Arbitration Court. While this lawsuit lasts, more than 3 thousand students of Reaviz cannot be sure that they will receive a state-recognized medical diploma. Vademecum figured out what happened.

PART-TIME PRIVATE

Reaviz appeared in 1993 as a private alternative to the Samara State Medical University (SamSMU) and at the same time as its continuation. Reaviz was founded by the people who at that time headed the Samara State Medical University - Rector Alexander Krasnov, Vice-Rector for Academic and Educational Work Gennady Kotelnikov and Professor Irina Balmasova. They decided to take this step because of financial problems in the state medical education.

“The goal of creating the Reaviz Medical Institute was not just to develop non-state healthcare,” Gennady Gridasov, Minister of Health of the region, said in an interview with the Samara Destiny publication in 2013. “We were also faced with the task of maintaining the pedagogical potential that was then at the Samara State Medical University, and this could be done through the involvement of a non-state medical institution.”

Therefore, the teachers of the two universities were the same, which allowed the employees of the state university to receive additional income.

In 2003, another native of Samara State Medical University joined Reaviz - Nikolai Lysov, head of the department at the University's Hospital Surgery Clinic. A year later, he entered the ownership structure of the university, and five years later he became its rector. First, he got 10% of Reaviz. Together with him, according to SPARK-Interfax, the founders were the current Minister of Health of the Samara Region Gennady Gridasov (10%), Samara State Medical University (20%) and a certain Oleg Alekseev (60%). Now, as follows from the documents published on the website of the university, the founder of the university is Reaviz Management Company LLC, 100% owned by Nikolai Lysov.

Having legally rebuilt from the Samara State Medical University, Reaviz began to look for its market niche. The cost of full-time education at Reaviz in the areas of General Medicine and Pharmacy in the first year is 135 and 110 thousand rubles a year, respectively, while at Samara State Medical University it is 143 thousand rubles. Naturally, those who could not enroll in paid studies at Samara State Medical University or cannot afford the prices of a state university do not refuse the opportunity to try their luck at the entrance exams at Reaviz.

This trend and the managerial activity of Nikolai Lysov made it possible to transform the university into a full-fledged business. The only private medical school was also the first network project. Branches of "Reaviz" appeared in St. Petersburg, Saratov and Moscow, as well as in Bulgaria and Transnistria. According to SPARK-Interfax, in 2016 Reaviz declared revenue of 755.9 million rubles and showed a net profit of 47.5 million rubles.

Nikolai Lysov, Rector of Reaviz (center), opens a university clinic in April 2016
Photo: reviz.ru

In parallel with the educational activities, Reaviz took up the medical business: in 2011 he opened a polyclinic, three years later - a dental clinic and an emergency room, pharmacies. The last large-scale project "Reaviz" presented in April 2016 - a multidisciplinary clinic with a hospital. “Permanent, continuous development is a tradition of the Reaviz Medical University,” Rector Nikolai Lysov said then at the opening. The solemn mood of those present was overshadowed by only one thing - shortly before that, in December 2015, Rosobrnadzor suspended the state accreditation of Reaviz.

PRIDE AND PROVISION

In 2015, Rosobrnadzor conducted a series of unscheduled inspections of all Russian branches of Reaviz. From November 22 to November 27, inspectors and experts worked in the head office of the university in Samara. And here the department found violations regarding the “quality of education”. The inspectors pointed to the absence of certain clauses in the contracts for the provision of paid educational services. For example, the right of a student to compensate for damages from improper performance of educational services or, on the contrary, the right of a university to expel a student for lack of payment or dishonest implementation of the curriculum. Shortcomings were also found in the admission campaign - the university, according to Rosobrnadzor, illegally reserved the right to extend the terms of entrance examinations, and additional points were awarded to future students according to an opaque system.

Soon, Rosobrnadzor suspended the accreditation of Reaviz. Lysov, in the VKontakte group of the university, called this measure illegal. According to him, service employees and experts exerted psychological pressure on students and “misled the head of Rosobrnadzor”, who signed the order. The instructions issued by Rosobrnadzor, as considered by the service, the university did not fulfill, and in February 2016 it was completely deprived of state accreditation. By this time, the conflict had already moved to the judicial plane.

First, representatives of Reaviz appealed against the order to deprive state accreditation in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow, referring to violations committed during the inspection of Rosobrnadzor. In particular, the plaintiff insisted, the terms of the check were violated, and its results were not provided against signature to the rector of Reaviz. The court decided to take interim measures while the lawsuit was being considered, so that for some time the university returned accreditation, which means that it could issue state diplomas to graduates.

At the same time, Reaviz managed to win administrative cases initiated by Rosobrnadzor based on the results of the audit in the Magistrate's Court of the Leninsky District of Samara, both processes on formal grounds. For the first time, Reaviz's lawyers managed to prove that the violations found during the examination of the university's website could not become grounds for an unscheduled inspection of the university itself. In the second case, representatives of Rosobrnadzor did not provide the Samara court with evidence of the violations listed in the order.

And on April 14, 2016, Reaviz in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow completely achieved the cancellation of the orders of Rosobrnadzor to terminate state accreditation - also due to violations in the inspection procedure. However, the supervisory agency filed an appeal, and on November 22, 2016, the Moscow City Court upheld it, sending the case to arbitration.

Then Rosobrnadzdor took advantage of the decision of the Moscow City Court and issued a new order No. 2106 dated December 14, 2016, which canceled the February order to restore state accreditation due to interim measures. Just before the new year 2017, Reaviz again lost its accreditation and ended up in the thematic register on the Rosobrnadzor website. In August 2017, the university failed to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court.

In February 2017, Reaviz made another attempt to restore its status. He filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court to cancel the order following the results of that ill-fated unscheduled inspection by Rosobrnadzor. The plaintiff also demanded to take interim measures in order to get accreditation again, at least temporarily.

The process was delayed - only on October 20, 2017, the court refused the university. Then Reaviz filed an appeal, which unexpectedly ended in success - on December 18, 2017, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal declared the order of Rosobrnadzor illegal. The court convicted the service of vagueness in terms of the adequacy of the “quality of education” and decided to restore the state accreditation of the university retroactively, that is, from February 8, 2016. Rosobrnadzor lost the cassation.

Soon, Reaviz filed a new lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court - this time demanding that all the department's controversial orders be declared illegal. On March 2, 2018, the Arbitration Court satisfied the requirements of the university. However, the position of the university is still shaky - Rosobrnadzor filed an appeal on April 6.

CREDIT OF TRUST

“The presence of official information on the website of Rosobrnadzor about depriving the university of state accreditation, despite the decision of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal of the city of Moscow of December 12, 2017, makes it impossible for 2018 graduates to receive a state diploma and start practical activities in medical organizations. However, the university hopes that the court decision will be executed by officials of Rosobrnadzor before the state final certification,” Reaviz told Vademecum.

In addition to the uncertainty with the issuance of diplomas to 2018 graduates, Reaviz still cannot conclude paid tuition agreements with persons of military age, since only students of universities with state accreditation can receive a deferment from the army.

Rosobrnadzor refused to comment on the conflict with Reaviz, citing the fact that the trial had not yet ended. “Any comments related to the trial in this case are premature, as they can be regarded as pressure on the court,” the press service of the department replied.

The first vice-rector of Reaviz, Inga Prokhorenko, said that a proposal from the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation to restore the accreditation of the university was sent to the head of Rosobrnadzor Sergey Kravtsov “on the basis of the inspections carried out”, but it was not executed. “The leadership of Rosobrnadzor ignores the official appeals of the administration of the Samara region, which negatively affects the political situation in the region, increases social tension,” she says.

The university, according to her, receives “a large number of applications from students, their parents and teaching staff, the professional medical community from various regions of the Russian Federation (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Leningrad, Samara and Saratov regions) with concern and misunderstanding of the goals and objectives administrative closure of an educational organization that has been operating for about a quarter of a century.

“But in general, our students are sympathetic to the ongoing processes. Moreover, the university management informs in great detail about the results of court cases, ”says Prokhorenko. Indeed, YouTube has two video recordings meetings of students with the participation of the administration, at which they are convinced that the university still has all the advantages of a state-accredited university, and demonstrate court decisions.

However, not everyone was convinced. In the first half of 2017, two students of Reaviz, Semenyuk and Chernin, filed lawsuits against the university in Samara civil courts demanding that they issue a state-recognised diploma, compensate for moral damage, and, finally, take interim measures for the duration of the trial, that is, suspend the orders Rosobrnadzdor. The court took interim measures, which made it possible to issue diplomas. The processes themselves ended with an amicable agreement.

Reaviz says that legal problems did not have a significant impact on the dynamics of admission of applicants in 2017. In 2016, Reaviz transferred all students in part-time education to full-time, as required by the updated federal educational standards. So, according to the monitoring of Rosobrnadzor, the number of students has grown - up to 3,455 people against 2,890 in 2015. But in 2017, it still slightly decreased to 3,195 people.

Against the backdrop of litigation, foreign departments of the university had to stop their work.

“Direct losses from the illegal activities of Rosobrnadzor, also confirmed by the decisions of the Samara Arbitration Court and the Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Samara, amounted to more than 100 thousand rubles. Other material and reputational losses have yet to be assessed by experts,” said Inga Prokhorenko.

In addition to the conflict with Rosobrnadzor, in 2018 Reaviz will have to deal with the claims of other supervisory authorities. So far, the university has successfully challenged the order of Roszdravnadzor issued on September 6, 2017 regarding defects in the provision of medical care in the Arbitration Court of the Samara Region. On March 1, another lawsuit was filed against the university by the Ministry of Property of the Samara Region. The materials of this case have not yet been published.

Medical universities have a higher burden on the part of inspection bodies, since they are subject to legal acts regulating the activities of not only medical, but also educational organizations, says Aleksey Alekseev, managing partner and head of the analytical department of Med-YurConsult.

“The administration of the university eliminated the existing violations within the allotted time. At the same time, attention is drawn to the expansion of the violations found [by Rosobrnadzor. - Vademecum], after the provision of an act of elimination, which is not a common practice,” he says. “If there are violations of the established procedure for conducting inspections, it is quite possible to challenge their results, although it is extremely costly in terms of time, money and nerves of employees of a medical and educational institution.”

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