and tcp program manager dane that leavitt. >> my name is carrie wong, i work with the department of aging and adult services and i have with me dana leavitt, she's the program manager at the san francisco transitional care program. i will start off with just a little bit of the background of how we got to where we're at, then dana is going to go into the program details. daas applied for the community-based transition care program, tcp program, currently 1 out of 47 participating nationwide. california has 3 of the participating cities, which includes marin county and san francisco. the tcp, which was created by section 3026 of the affordable care act tests for models for improving transitional care setings from hospitals to other setings and reducing readmissions for high risk medicare beneficiaries. care transition occurs when a patient moves from one health care provider to another setting. nearly 1 out of 5 medicare patients discharged from the hospital, which is approximately 2.6 million seniors, is readmitted within 30 days and costs over 26 billion every year. while hospit

wongs propose to have schools required to carry epi-pens to treat any students with that emergency. >> 20% of times it's undiagnosed food allergy in school. >> reporter: hamm is lobbying congress to pass the epi-pen legislation one way he is urging people to take food allergies seriously. >> get your child checked. you will never get over this. >> reporter: sharon chin, cbs 5. >> there is a fundraising walk in san jose this weekend to promote awareness of food allergies. we have details on cbssf.com. just click on "newslinks." >>> in our next half hour, california still very much blue. but mitt romney is cutting into president obama's lead. how much the race is tightened here since the first presidential debate. >> and this halloween why a bay area city is cancelling a popular community tradition. ,,,,,, at the guaranteed's lowest price.attresses plus, pay no interest for 3 years on the best brand-name mattress sets. get your best rest ever from sleep train. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ "1 >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> now at 6:30, mitt romney has