director's report: (discussion) presented by abbie yant, sfhss executive director >> good afternoon, s. abby, executive director health services system. i wanted to reemphasize and congratulate the entire hhs team. a lot of work by everybody on the open enrollment that was successful this year. we were able to open our doors and help real people. we have a lot of retirees who were able to make appointments with us. not always tomorrow because we are pretty booked, but it's working out very well. i'm going to defer any detailed report on this until next month until the team will be giving a highlight on how it went, but it was very successful and we had a bump in the early weeks but smooth sailing in the last week which is always challenging. congratulations to the entire team. i also sadly want to note the passing of a former staff member, ernie, he started there when i first started and a very pleasant person and worked as a critical part of the i.t. team and was a joy to work with and retired i think in 2018. so the staff that had an opportunity to work with him can't say enough abo

this is discussion item and presented by executive director abbie yant. >> thank you. good afternoon commissioners. i would like to start by director's report welcoming a staff member, member service jolene rousseau who is in the room. >> please stand. welcome, we are delighted to have you with us and congratulations to planning to spend this portion of your career with us. >> thank you. i also want to recognize in the room is carrie brusheers and her coordinator lisa not in the room but may be watching. she is pretty busy. they pulled off incredible event for the wellbeing awards event a few weeks ago and it was very well attended and they gave out lots of awards to many different city departments. i was privileged to moderate a panel of department leaders to speak to how they viewed wellbeing. t thapanel included the jada jurden from the department of public works. she was quite inspirational to listen to. kelly dearman, department director within the health service agency and as well as city attorney david chui, so it was a nice mix of folks and they were really ver

this is discussion item and presented by executive director abbie yant. >> thank you.afternoon commissioners. i would like to start by director's report welcoming a staff member, member service jolene rousseau who is in the room. >> please stand. welcome, we are delighted to have you with us and congratulations to planning to spend this portion of your career with us. >> thank you. i also want to recognize in the room is carrie brusheers and her coordinator lisa not in the room but may be watching. she is pretty busy. they pulled off incredible event for the wellbeing awards event a few weeks ago and it was very well attended and they gave out lots of awards to many different city departments. i was privileged to moderate a panel of department leaders to speak to how they viewed wellbeing. t thapanel included the jada jurden from the department of public works. she was quite inspirational to listen to. kelly dearman, department director within the health service agency and as well as city attorney david chui, so it was a nice mix of folks and they were really very pass