one of the listening sessions at the end of the month is the week after and another one in february. and both were the only two and then you can submit written comments. if that's on our radar at all. >> we'll check in with the appropriate dph representative on those issues. >> commissioner: thank you. >> commissioner: now that we mentioned healthy san francisco, it was not considered insurance i believe under the aca. would it be something the county needs to consider whether we would like that considered on their insurance with the state if there was to be a state individual mandate because i think there are pros and cons but we are talking about trying to encourage people to sign up. i don't know if director wagner has a view point on this. if we dont have a view point we

can't put it in but we perhaps should be thinking about whether or not that should be eligible. >> i think there's definitely a large conversation that i think is broadly captured. i think the state will be looking at a whole number of potential scenarios where the governor has asked for a single payer system to other approaches that would be coverage expansions of other forms other than a single payer. and they become an insurance product would be a long process and we will have to determine a process for the licensing and how that would operate as a health plan as well as the

funding. one of the issues with healthy san francisco is we have a network of participating providers in the city and we provide excellent health care but outside the city's boundaries, we don't have a network or financial or administrative means to pay claims. that's one of the limitation objects healthy san francisco and why we always pursue insurance. i think there'll abe big policy discussion over the next number of years of what is the state's vision for funding to close the gaps for people who remain uninsured and how to leverage the policy discussion to strengthen coverage option to get more people via it's a form of healthy san francisco or a supplement program to get people on true health insurance.

>> commissioner: we're not looking at healthy san francisco as being insurance but as they move along the road of insurance which was the whole purpose from when we went into it it would be a first step and whether it's recognized as a portion of the insurance. maybe they get a 10% rebate back or whatever the penalties are they're looking at and not wanting to take away the incentive to get true insurance. it's something i think within the dialogue and realized it would be important. and are there any other i would just say again it's an excellent report and you and your staff have given the commission and the city a unique opportunity to

look at some of the challenges coming down the pike and with legislation we go to the dance of legislation act. here's something else that may come across in the next year or year after. with our veterans who have served since 2000. there are move and medical psychiatric and we look back and we know that veterans here in the city consistent one of our largest population groups. we have the data. we have the data taking a look at where we are.

so even though people don't think of san francisco necessary as a home port anymore for the military bases we've observed in the past 100 years, we're still the home port for veterans who came here during active duties and whose families and grand kids come back and we may have real challenges again as a city to come up with to expand or have comprehensive services for all of the above and this may be coming across us but the numbers are there and it will provide us with another city with another unique challenge. how do we provide ac association -- access to service. well done. >> commissioner: commission sanchez are you suggesting within the document we highlight the need of veterans as an

opportunity on the federal or state level? >> commissioner: it may be mentioned for the state to look at. >> we can look and see and see if we can incorporate that into the plan as well as commissioner chung's comment on violence. >> commissioner: i believe commissioner chung had a suggested area and commissioner sanchez has a suggested area to highlight. if anybody else has any other areas to make additional revision as we go along otherwise we will then accept that with the revisions as pointed out. anyone else? no. okay. so the resolution is before us and adding our colleague's

comments for the documents. is there a motion to accept -- excuse me. >> clerk: the vote for this resolution will be at the next meeting. this is a discussion item today. >> commissioner: next meeting we're informed how it could be added. thank you. we have legislative plans for 2019 and we would look at the final revisions and great and thank you for a comprehensive document that every year improves. i like the way you categorize

it. it's very clear. >> >> clerk: there's no public comment and nine is the project update. >> commissioner: yes. >> i'm the acting chief information officer for dph. and i'm going to walk you through an i.t. and epic project update. i want to take you back a little bit into 2017 when we were doing planning on the ehr at that point. in january of 2017, dph began working on 14 ready initiatives. they involved governance which included project governance, establishing a public management office and unified governance program. both initiatives included developing a change management program and training program and communication plan and information governance and

revenue cycle management program and resourcing planned and value-based benefit. all the initiatives were developed to make the current ep pick install time line. there were three i.t. go forward initiatives. security and privacy, i.t. operations, network and facilities. so the dph security and privacy team was started in 2016. a chief information security officer should be on board by the end of the month or the beginning of february. this will be our first information security officer. it was established in the beginning of 2018 we had act being chief information security officers to this point and it will be our first i'll tell you what they are responsible for. the chief information security officers has a team that report up to them and for business

continuity and ensuring annual audits for security are performed and any findings discovered that have to be mitigated. the team also worked with the county of san francisco. 567bd operation have been on the service team and the epic team creation and support of the third-party systems to bring full functionality of epic. and we experienced staff last year and established the epic bill team from operations and within i.t. and people who v volunteered and we did assessments and sent them for training and they're working on the epic project today.

the next two slides will focus on infrastructure and our customer service readiness efforts. i'm hoping because it's actually not happening here, so i'm sorry if you're not seeing on your screen a video that plays. and i showed the screen swell but the video isn't apparently doing anything. i spoke about the equipment refresh and virtualization of the work stations. we took them from training on their work station at 157 seconds to 71 seconds. so this is the upgrade of the equipment in the clinics to prepare them for epic. they got larger monitors and have a faster boot-up time and will have a better experience

ti time. i did report on network uptime. for 2018, last time i didn't have the full report for 2018 because i was here in october. so for 2018, we have an average of network uptime is 99.978%. so we can still improve. we have had some incidents so we intend to improve that process as well. you can see on the slide there the refresh schedule which is finishing up this month. respite completed january 3 and hurry scheduled to complete on january 22 and the castro mission will be completed later this spring because there's construction activity for those clinics. and i presented to you in october so what's different about it is i'm giving you a whole quarter of 2018 averaged

out by month as to the incidents that had and you can see in general a reduced occurrence of major incident and result of decreased i.t. tickets an overall the service desk has been helpful. when i'm describing a major incident with disruption to a critical service defined as the for instance for example the lcr would abe critical and the ocr system is critical. when we move to epic, epic will be a critical system so degradation or network outages is what we're reporting in the major incident. we've been focussing on i.t. talent management. there's 34 permanent open conditions. recruitment remains difficult in the current economy but i can tell you we are hiring and we've been successful in some areas

and we continue to work with h.r. to recruit. we've had good success with our 1010 training program. some have been sent to epic to be trained and are successful members of the epic build team and i.t. will continue with the 1010 program and we're looking to expand interns to provide tunts -- opportunity and so grow i.t. and now we're working on appropriate staffing levels for areas where we have staff for decommissioned systems. there's 55 systems that we'll be decommissioning. so the i.t. focus or 2019 the number one priority is epic followed by vendor management. we had 85 contracts that bedid with epic that means 85 vendors for the most part and significant amount of

digitization around dph. so continuing to improve the process is on our agenda. decommissioning and planning for the 55 systems is underway and we are developing an i.t. strategic plan for business needs and technology and i have that completed by march. the last i.t. strategic plan was developed in 2014. and it involved preparing for procuring the dhr. we've pretty much done that so this effort will be moving forward with what we'll be doing for the next five years. wave one is underway and on track to go live august 3. we're in the testing phase and while there's been issues related to staffing and timely decisions, the build is 98% done with the build required for testing and all teams have plans

how to complete remaining build items as well as defined escalation paths to get timely decisions. so i'll be continuing to present this schedule you'll see the col colors are with what we planned to do and in gray we tracked if we went over the time line or kept it. epic is a pretty prescribed. the reason why we're staying on track is we're forced to do that. they give us enough tools and staff to keep to this and if anything is off track, we have plans on how we get it back on track. for phase zero that ended april 3 and groundwork ended june 1

137 -- june 1. we did the configuration and adoption. the feedback we got about the build. that ran through inform -- november 28 and we're doing testing beginning may 29 and training begins may 30 and we go live august 3 with post-live support going into november. this slide i showed you last time as well. we stepped back. last time i showed you the quarter of the year. the quarters aren't on there any more because we're stepping back to take into account the staffing we need because there's additional modules and facility moves and they impact what we do in a particular quarter and other lead times and so we'll be back as we figure that out in

great detail about what our implement future waves will be and what quarter or even if we come up with the actual date. i want to share some of the epic accomplishments since october. we're using 1735 mission street as the primary location for training and locations at zuckerberg, san francisco general and laguna honda. one thing to note is epic worked with laguna honda for specific needs laguna honda had and they incorporated those enhancements into our february update so we'll have them in time for our live. i'm pleased to have those registry needs and some printing requirements and some additional things for future waves regarding ambulatory, pharmacy and migration data from the

legacy system to the epic test system was successful and has involved the build for the configuration and migration from where it was built to the test system and conversion actually was started and i will tell you that that's underway we just got downloading an initial round of it. four years of our legacy data in the epic system so that involved doing all the mapping necessary to have that happen and we're doing the validation starting this week. sow -- so application testing is ahead of schedule. i went read through the accomplishments but what i want you to take away from this is the volume of tasks the team has had to do. this has been since june 1. a lot of activity that's been underway since the beginning of the configuration. this is an activity status i

presented last time. what i'll do is keep this in front of you so you know what did we report last time and where are we now. in our design and build despite difficulties with staffing, this is pretty much on track. though in our local meetings we have a lot of things we look at. this is overall on track to go live. testing is on track on target. training has gone from a watch state to on track because we were able to secure the lease at 1735 mission for the training -- main training facility. as well as we just released the learning management system so managers can sign up their staff for training this week. those were the two reasons. on the interface is on track and infrastructure and technology is on track and go live is targeted and we should in meeting without a problem august 3. budgets remain on a watch because we still have contracts we need to complete having to do

with live. they're things such as additional trainers and at the elbow support. i wanted to highlight this activity. it is prescribed and they offer a lot of check points along the way to make sure we are going to get live. thigh bring in people who aren't on the project from epic but they are experienced and do an assessment from where we are so it's an outside fresh view of it. they give us tools for go live readiness and this is evaluate critical areas such as the go live and necessary to evaluate the progress and readiness and risk and system readiness and operational readiness and we'll be doing this at 120 days before

live, 90, 60, 30 and 15. so really the final checklist before we take off that we'll be on track. so what's ahead the i.t. folks are ensure weg -- ensure weg finish testing and training and move to stabilization and prepare for future waves and optimization. i want to highlight the training tasks coming up there's approximately 9,000 employees and providers to train and over 12 individual class sessions will be held over eight weeks. an intense a -- of effort in a short period of time. because it's new i'm sure it won't be without hiccups but we will get through those. i wanted to bring up questions brought up last time. one was the percentage of

e-learning to in classroom learning so i'll bring that back next time. we have didn't discussing patient load and if there'll be a reduction when we go live. i don't have a final answer but there's been discussion leading up to that and that's something that will come back to you. we'll also talk to you about super user program. i think the next time we'll bring albert in to talk about change management and keep you updated on that as well. are there any questions? >> commissioner: commissioners, if i can very briefly add a couple comments in addition to what winona said. i can always do this but can i keep everything in historical context when i look at the report it was six or so years ag when barbara was relatively new into her role and we launched a

study to evaluate our i.t. system and talked about an ehr and the result said whoa, you got a lot of to do before you implement and enterprise the ehr overhaul of our system infrastructure and operations an building capacity and system. and it was evident our i.t. just in terms of day to day impact on the department is not where it needed to be. and looking at some of the data we put in the reports, i think it is a remarkable distance that we've come in a relatively short time by organizational change standards where we have done the infrastructure overhaul. we've got a lot of reason and

the up time is where it needs to be and you see a lot of the green on the project status report. it makes it look like an easy process but i will tell you there's a monumental amount of work that goes into keeping those green and winona with the i.t. side with the team have taken the reigns and pushed it forward. there's still a lot of to do so we'll be watching those greens i just wanted to say particularly thanks to winona's leadership especially in a transition through this project it's done tremendous amount to keep the i.t. department on track and keep this progress moving. >> thank you. it's a true team effort. i have a great team. >> commissioner: well done.

hard to believe it's actually here and happening and we're here to see it. we've all gone through many years. good work. mr. wagner was instrumental too because it was a job to convince the city in a novel way was necessary and they were willing to do that because i know that was one of our very practical issues. how do we tell the number of hundreds of millions over many years. i don't think the city's taken

on that. >> we've had a tremendous amount of support from the policy makers in the project. >> commissioner: so i see since you'll have an outside audit so to speak with the dlra march 20, the next quarterly report will on the help confirm how well epic think we're doing >> just to clarify they have an independent audit review. and it's a prescribed spread sheet we own with a full checklist but i'd be happy to bring that back to you assuming the timing is right for the next presentation. >> commissioner: you should get the kudos they're going to give you. commissioners any further comments. commissioner guillermo? >> i wanted to add my conditi

conditiconditio condition -- congratulations for this epic effort in this bill. and six years seems like a long time but i think given the state the system was in in what was required and it's a collaboration of team work you've been able to pull together and i want to con dw t dwrat -- congratulate you and look forward to the next report. i can't wait to see how that goes. >> it meant we could take care of some things and be ready for epic. while there's an i.t. component to it as a whole organizational part to this. the success rests on the organization adopting this and i've seen change in our

organization to make that happen. >> commissioner: thank you. commissioner green. >> i want to say same thing commissioner guillermo said and i'm an epic survivor. as someone in that category i'm impressed the way you're leading and how everyone is coming together and i know what it take and it's monumental and impressive what you're doing. >> commissioner: i think those who have been here long enough realize the different soft starts we've had and it turned out very good because many of us have gone through various times where we had to have the transition within our own lives and if those people took the time that we are all taking, i think it would be an easier acceptable transfer for many of

us. i think considering the complexity of this department and the fact that you've been able to actually have a schedule that shows it's not just the hospital it's the first wave of the delivery system that i think say better achievement than most of us were looking for. >> i wanted to say i think this is really impressive especially from someone who actually start the process at the same time i got appointed to the commission. i've seen as two years ago we have a lot of questions answered and weren't quite sure if all these things can be implemented on time and so there are a lot

of back and forth discussion and to see the progress and it's exciting to see we finally organizing the system to keep up the pace with the current technology. this is just where we start and we can start to go in terms of using the technologies. >> the value is for the patients and the data we'll get from this. >> commissioner: there was no public comment? >> clerk: no public comment. >> commissioner: if there's no further comment we'll go on to the next comments. >> clerk: item 10 is other business and have you the calendar before you and we revert back to our regular schedule after the holidays so we'll have the meeting and then go from there. >> commissioner: thank you, if you have any questions ask him. >> clerk: item 11 no joint

conference committee for a while so nothing to report and item 12 is a consideration of the closed session. >> commissioner: commissioners, a motion for a closed session? >> second. >> commissioner: all those in favor of the closed session please say aye. >> aye. >> commissioner: all those >> commissioner: commission will take a vote to go back to open session. in favor say aye. commission will now take a vote whether or not to disclose the discussions in the closed session. >> commissioner: motion not to disclose close. >> commissioner: all in favor of not disclosing the discussions please say aye. >> aye. >> commissioner: motion for adjournment is in order. >> so moved. >> second. >> commissioner: all in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> commissioner: this meeting's >> commissioner: this meeting's adjourned.

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>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through

them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's

hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up

into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy

challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco.

>> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity.

>> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so

anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey,

thanks pat for >> my apartment burned down 1.5 years ago in noba. my name is leslie mccray, and i am in outside beauty sales. i have lived in this neighborhood since august of this year. after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and find out about various programs that could help us get back on our feet, and i signed up for the below market rate program, got my certificate, and started applying and won the housing lottery. this particular building was

brand-new, and really, this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. and i came to the open house here, and there were literally hundreds of people looking at the building. and i -- in my mind, i was, like, how am i ever going to possibly win this? and i did. and when you get that notice that you want, it's surreal, and you don't really believe it, and then it sinks in, yeah, i can have it, and i'm finally good to go; i can stay. my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-new. it's beautiful. my kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look

at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. ♪ 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. i spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good

time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and

she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. >> i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] >> kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. ♪ >> it is an amazing spot. it is a state of the art center. >> is beautiful. quarkrights i would like to come

here and join them . >> all right. this is a meeting of the recreation and park commission. could the clerk please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: and commissioner low is on his way. we do have a few announcements today -- oh, there he is. perfect timing. okay. this is the january 17, 2019 meeting of the recreation and park commission. happy new year, and we welcome everyone here today, but we do ask you that you turnoff any sound producing devices that may go off during the meeting. we would also ask you that you take any secondary conversations you may want to have outside. if you would like to speak on an item today, we