my name is did susan philip the health officer for the city and county of san francisco and the direct the population health against or distinction at department of health i'm so happy to be here with the zoo david chiu and others and our wonderful leadership and all of you for decades the department of health has sought so reduce the access to public tobacco and provides services to help people to quit in recent years enforced the restriction of product sales in san francisco. this labor library mu-n thalamus and cheri are marketed to our communities of color and including other vaping products this restriction is critical to protect the happy earth day of those in 20 percent of high school students and others eying e seconds are a high concentration of nick tone and can harm the developing brain. adversely effecting the attention and additional starts lifetime addiction before 18 continued to have serious illness of heart disease and flavored product is easily to start and harder to quit i applaud city attorney for protecting the health of san franciscans and for the continued advocacy of supervisor walton and dorsey with the leadership. san

so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our human servicessing partners, so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things, people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for th

it continued because he stuck with the department and in fact, the department of public health is one of those departments with thousands of employees. a lot of challenges, a lot of ups and downs, and none of us expected to be in the midst of a global pandemic. and adding to the responsibilities of what needed to be done and public health was at the center of that. and they did an excellent job in delivering for the community and delivering for the people of san francisco. so and helping us get to a better place. and there was a lot of money and a lot of resources and change going out the door. and greg was at the center of so much of that work. in addition to that, we had a number of challenges with laguna honda and i must say, the work that we did with public health, with labor, with the people who work at laguna honda to what we were able to do. you took a lot of over site and work and find chances. and greg again delivered and it it's the people that you don't see sometimes that make the biggest difference in in what you do see in terms of the accomplishment that occur in san fran

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of health and the department of health and human services and involvedf california san francisco medical center. and laguna hospital and rehabilitation center and those involved in laguna hospitals recertification process. before i go any further, ryan alexander a resident in south laguna hospital asked me to to the san francisco board of supervisors he it was without the ability to defend himself no probate court. >> ryan i just did that for you. san francisco briefing meeting during public comment period tuesday, december 12, 2023, and now a matter of the public record. earlier this year in a 7 page by the city attorney david chiu accused of pushing shady data at the expense of unsuspected patient (bell ringing) in their annual ranging quote customers are making health decisions based on precise methodology and the state attorney rankings are spled data like opinion surveys and city attorney standard that awkward seems to be familiar with the process? well opinions involved in the recertification of la general obligation bond honda. >> any other member

the healthcare association of hawaii state department of health in 19 hundred by you, hawaii education repayment program provides unprecedented $30 million educational loan repayment, health professionals bring them to and keep them in hawaii. [applause] why we do this and why does it help? qualify for loan repayment in our states up to $50000 a year. some $04,500,000 of debt in exchange for minimum service of two years while they are getting to practice in caring f most and fellowships are targeted providers who care for those who are usually on medicaid. the first batch and we receive dozens of education applicants. we have already received thousands of applications. this is just weeks into it and with party announced our first 585 healthcare champions. [applause] as i look at the concerns of the freshman class coming in, they were focusing on mental health care. this year but putting an emphasis on mental health and addiction treatment to address the heightened concerns we have and on value. the solution is making sure healthcare providers they need and within five years hawaii will

it is under constant by the department of health. inspectors. cruise the city gathering for the city laboratory. these trips take inspectors hundreds of miles out of state. check the sources of the vital milk supply. disease does not recognize race wealth nor status. city health is the response ability of the city. for risk for a lung disease disease consultation, treatment for the disturbed. blood pressure for heart disease and child care for those who cannot afford. well, 55. 1255. and in another part of the big city, that tiny town program is beginning. a happy community is healthy community. the recreation centers in the big city provide happiness for many people. for the preschool child are skills to learn and things to dream. for the old and the forgotten. there are many useful days ahead ahead. all over the great city, there are thousands who love to play baseball and got to have a basis for a baseball. and what other wonderful games that a player when you grow up. softball. tennis tennis and soccer. boxing. field hockey. or perhaps a picn

it continued because he stuck with the department and in fact, the department of public health is one of those departments with thousands of employees. a lot of challenges, a lot of ups and downs, and none of us expected to be in the midst of a global pandemic. and adding to the responsibilities of what needed to be done and public health was at the center of that. and they did an excellent job in delivering for the community and delivering for the people of san francisco. so and helping us get to a better place. and there was a lot of money and a lot of resources and change going out the door. and greg was at the center of so much of that work. in addition to that, we had a number of challenges with laguna honda and i must say, the work that we did with public health, with labor, with the people who work at laguna honda to what we were able to do. you took a lot of over site and work and find chances. and greg again delivered and it it's the people that you don't see sometimes that make the biggest difference in in what you do see in terms of the accomplishment that occur in san fran

for the past two years, my department of health has been working to advance access to the state with ent. we have put a brand-new state-of-the-art fifteens in the back of ambulances across south dakota. we've also worked with indian health service was to get the devices at no charge in ambulances and in their crews. we also just completed a comprehensive analysis of the current state in south dakota. we had over 400 stakeholder meetings over the course of eight months. later this year the department will roll out a $7.5 million grant program to ambulance services. this is going to suffer the implementation of regional houses and much more. the transport times range from a few minutes to over an hour. during those transports, professionals are in the back of the ambulance caring for patients and often times alone. south dakota changed that. we are the first state in the country to implement. that means we are using telemedicine to connect physicians, paramedics with of the ems personnel in the field. we work with our partners to do it and there's nothing else like it in the country. it

department of health and human services met with ob gyn doctors and professors to discuss front line stories of how abortion care has changed since roe versus wade was overturned, and some states adopted abortion restrictions. >> if they're spanish speaking or they're an immigrant, they have no idea where to look and they're stuck in this restrictive state. >> patients who are pregnant are really coming to san francisco from really far away because they can't get care within their states from places like tennessee, even florida. we've seen patients from georgia, doctor eleanor dray, medical director of san francisco general abortion clinic, told becerra that colleagues also are seeing doctors leave. >> some states that have criminalized abortions. >> so it's creating sort of obstetric care deserts. >> professor shared findings from their research projects on cases when abortion access is denied, like when a pregnant patient in the second trimester breaks their bag of water and you know, there's a high chance of developing an infection and a low probability that the fetus would survive

the california department of health along with san francisco's department of health is asking residentsbe cautious, saying if you haven't gotten your flu shot yet now would be a good time. >> you know, i think this is a reminder to everyone that food can be a serious illness. the san francisco health department reporting the first flu death of the season monday saying even though we're in the middle of the flu season, it's not too late to vaccinate. the person passed away was under 65 are told with pre-existing health conditions and did not get this year's flu shot. so we are in the middle of, you know, the traditional flu season. >> what's been a little bit different in terms of scope for this flu season is that it has know necessarily into a huge sharp that we might we might have seen in prior years. >> doctor hans, as we're not out of the woods yet and that spike might come later in the season, which spans from november through march and april, the california department of health in their weekly report says influenza activity is elevated in the state and that now is a good time to ge

fraudulent use of tanf dollars by crisis pregnancy centers, this bill by its term would prevent the department of health regulation of pregnancy crisis centers. house republicans would green-light the unregulated use of public money to fund these anti-abortion facilities, many of which have been proven to promote false medical claims and misinformation, misrepresent their services as providing a full range of reproductive health care, despite having only anti-abortion services, and usually lacking any medical personnel and, horrifyingly, they're unbound by hipaa privacy restrictions, and some of these centers collect and distribute women's sensitive personal inanizations within the larger anti-abortion movement. this is what republicans are trying to push upon american women with these bills. and i wholeheartedly disagree. so, here we are, it's another week, and house g.o.p. still can't get their act together. their majority is on track to become one of ineffective in modern history. and again we're just hours from a government shutdown. but instead of dealing with that, or any of the real problems amer

the department of health and human services proposed a rule to deter funding away from pregnancy centers toward facilities that provide pregnancy centers support expectant mothers offering support. aligned with the intended purposes of the program. singling out pregnancy centers is putting in agenda ahead of policy. that's why i introduced the parenting women in families act ensure pregnancy centers cannot be restricted from receiving funding. conservatives are herern babies and mothers. we want to ensure moms are supported throughout pregnancies and empowered, thank you.>> will go to our whip. >> last week hunter biden revealed the degree of arrogance and entitlement. flat, reality set in. hunter biden's lawyer notified the chairman that he was ready to admit defeat after defying two subpoenas. as negotiation date and time of deposition continue a few things should be made clear. house republicans will hold hunter biden's feet to the fire until we have his testimony. we have zero tolerance. he is a material witness and sitting down in a formal setting where all questions can be asked an

it is under constant inspection from the department of health. inspectors will cruise the city, gathering samples from the city laboratory. these trips take inspectors hundreds of miles out of state to check the sources for the vital milk supply. disease does not recognize waste, wealth, nor sickness. city health is the responsibility of the city. for scope for lung disease. consultation and treatment for the deserved. blood pressure for heart disease. child care for those who cannot afford. 12:55. 12:55, in another part of the big city, a tiny program is beginning. a happy community is a healthy community. the recreation centers of the big city, provide outlets for many people. for the preschool child, there are things to dream about. for the old and the forgotten, there are many useful days ahead. all of the great city, there are thousands of actions. you have to have babies for baseball. what are the games you play when you grow up? softball, tennis, soccer. boxing. field hockey. perhaps a picnic at forest park. watching some of those funny gam

it will prohibit the practice of paying people to test while leaving flexibility for the department of public health to provide incentives if needed and also make violations of the ordinance a misdemeanor. we hope for your support today and happy to take any questions. >> through the chair, thank you so much. i just want to-i have no questions but i want to reiterate my appreciation to supervisor preston and our cosponsor supervisor ronan for being on this. i will confs when i saw these i just assumed this was from the department of public health. reasonable people assumed these were public sector endeavors and find out it isn't is fly by night, we have no idea what they are doing. the are privacy risks and more importantly it is opening the door to god knows what they will be doing if we don't create a law like this, so i really appreciate the leadership of supervisor preston and your work. happy to support and be cosponsor. >> great. please open public comment. >> does anyone have public comment on item number 3 related to regulating medical specimen test collection sites? if so, please come forwa

of the family health center and dr. hammer has dedicated her career for the department of health. thank you, so much for this and served in leadership positions. and include most recently the ambulatory care what the public health a jail house. >> primary care and hiv services and integrated care and dr. hammer received all the support from the clinics. during her time as director dr. hammer oversee the successful pc clinic and district 5 and the heat center inistrict 10 and 8 those renovations are a wider scope of services. dr. hammer has been a person for the affordable act by dph and three led to the health network as to meet the demands she - during covid she was integral in setting up the care and helped expand the ambulatory costs and bringing vaccinations. and draw hearing examiner has been a guiding force for the behavorial health and supporting hillary and joined dph and dr. hammer has served on the steering committee's for management for 5 years where i began to get to know her and a strong admire of her. not only is her knowledge and experience of staff but deeply compas

hillary is doing in the department of health and to match up to see the expensive report understanding the discovery of the cause of death and that actually impacts or causes the death thank you for your work vice chair. >> thank you and madam chair. >> thank you i'd like to be part of this. >> with that, next public comment. >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item approach the podium to provide public comment. >> madam chair, no speakers. >> seeing none, public comment is closed (gavel) i do understand though a proposed amendment we should discuss it when the public comment - >> thank you. good morning supervisor chan sophie from the office of carmen chu and we have technical amendments to circle categories by amending the annual salary and provided to the clerk and circulated for the benefit of the public i'll walk you through the specific amendments each on page one line 6 and 7 added a note that the grant funded position is in the salary ordinance on page 2 added the word arriving to line that to match the federal discretion this is my favorite one on page 2 li

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semi-professional rower and an excellent swimmer, in the same way, the director of the hawaii state department of health, retty fuddy, who certified the certificate that obama was born in hawaii and not in kenya, died mysteriously in the same way, because there were rumors that obama was actually born in kenya , therefore, had no right to be the president of the united states of america, but in the end it turns out that obama also has something to hide, remember the very recent scandalous interview that... the famous tucker carlson took from a certain larry sinclair. remember this information? then i gave obama $250 to buy cox, when he came back i made a track on the cd box to make it easier to snort. did all this happen in a limousine? yes, right on the move, or are you parked? no, we continued driving. so, i'm making a new track. well, so you understand, approximately where? his thigh to let me know what i wanted from him and to see his reaction, and i was not mistaken, he understood me, that’s when everything happened for us, so we had a fun night in the limousine with drugs and sex, so you are strok

the department of health says it's invested £165 million a year to improve maternity and neonatal carenia left hospital a day after she was born and now she's settling into life with mum and dad nicole and michael. when she was born, i was just so happy. the best feeling ever. catherine burns, bbc news. hello. it's another cold, wintry day out there today. we've got some icy stretches around, some fog patches that are going to linger all day, particularly across parts of northern scotland. but for most of us, thankfully, it is going to be another dry day. still plenty of flood warnings out, but they're starting to reduce in number now. so high pressure driving our weather at the moment. quite a few isobars in the south. this is where we've got the breeziest conditions. breeze coming in from the east or north—east for southern england and wales too. still some wintry showers down towards the channel islands into the afternoon. also some snow flurries for the likes of dartmoor, for instance, as well. one or two light showers could come out of this cloud across north—east england and east

my name is did susan philip the health officer for the city and county of san francisco and the direct the population health against or distinction at department of health i'm so happy to be here with the zoo david chiu and others and our wonderful leadership and all of you for decades the department of health has sought so reduce the access to public tobacco and provides services to help people to quit in recent years enforced the restriction of product sales in san francisco. this labor library mu-n thalamus and cheri are marketed to our communities of color and including other vaping products this restriction is critical to protect the happy earth day of those in 20 percent of high school students and others eying e seconds are a high concentration of nick tone and can harm the developing brain. adversely effecting the attention and additional starts lifetime addiction before 18 continued to have serious illness of heart disease and flavored product is easily to start and harder to quit i applaud city attorney for protecting the health of san franciscans and for the continued advocacy of supervisor walton and dorsey with the leadership. san

she went on to receive a degufft on to work for the department of health and human services for more h a south center, the chinese historical society of new england, an asian american civic association. i encourage my colleagues to support this legislation honoring this dedicated civil servant and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tereserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. raskin. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. i rise in strong h.r. 3728 to designate the postal service locatedded at 25 dorchester avenue, room 1, in, g post office. this bill produced by representative presley recognizes the contributions of ms. chang raised in chinatown. i didn't know her but learned from my colleague she was a trail blazer, a passionate advocate for her community, andl a devoted public servant and yield such time as she may require the gentlelady from massachusetts, represeat the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from massachusetts is recognized. ms. pressley: thank you, mr. raskin and chair comer for advancing this legislation. i want to thank my mass

even today we don't know all of toxins because the department of public health and the board of supervisors failed to file a subpoena to get the list. this is a letter i received and other physicians received from the department of public health. and as you can see that they're requesting here, it says avoid performing any talks of logical tests. these are not recommended or unlikely prove useful data for clinical evaluation of patients. and so what did you decide to do? just the opposite. the look at my busy research and he made the statement in an email that this looks like chronic busy and they kept saying, well it's just messing but it, you know, it wasn't just that. later on we found out crude oil was coming up branding down on us and they knew the many victims are better about the legal outcome of this environmental disaster. the so cow gas company got off with justin out of court settlement. the victims on average, received around 30000 euros to compensate them for life changing injuries. in many cases, the residents fight against the oil industry was the meek against the mighty, the

the cooperation of basij and the cooperation of hilal amr emergency, 115 health care providers, family doctors and a fixed base that was under the department of health of the college, and it was a very good activity that we were able to reach 100% of this coverage in the rural areas as well as in the metropolitan areas , if the participation of the others the institutions that i mentioned were not for your service and the cooperation of the people themselves, maybe we could not have covered all the people, so i would like to thank all the dear ones who have cooperated with us . one of the causes that can lead to a heart attack and early stroke leads to diabetes, stroke and heart attack in diabetic patients is almost twice as much as people without diabetes, but why? diabetes with high blood sugar damages the small vessels and nerves of the heart and provides the basis for a heart attack . this condition can increase the risk of heart attack. high blood pressure, like high blood sugar, can damage the body's veins, especially the heart's veins. high fat and cholesterol. when the small vessels in the body of a patient with diabetes or pre-dia

>> reporter: raj, this change comes after the state department of public health released new guidanceg it is now okay to head back to school or work if you test positive for covid, but have no symptoms. you'll just need to wear one of these, of course, a mask. before this change, people who tested positive for covid had to isolate for five days whether they had symptoms or not. oakland unified is one of the first school districts to align with the state's new guidance. >> it has enabled us to have a little more room to operate here in the district. >> students at ousd who test positive for covid, but don't have symptoms will be able to come to class. but they will need to wear a mask around other people indoors for ten days. they can ditch the mask sooner if they have two negative tests in a row, at least one day apart. >> and we are no longer issuing those isolation. so it will be incumbent upon our families and our students to really kind of be on top of what's going on with regard to their own health. it's really like, you know, the flu. it's like rsv. a lot of these kind of season

today, the department of health care services launched its new behavioral health virtual services platform. it includes two free apps for families to use with kids, teens and young adults. >> i've seen firsthand what happens when kids who are struggling don't get the support they need. when issues fester, and when they lead to serious injury and self-harm. i've also had the honor of witnessing that when children and families are provided, the right support in the right way, including prevention early intervention, treatment, they are resilient and tough and capable. the app, aimed at users 12 and younger, is called bright life kids, while selena is for users ages 13 through 25. >> the child tax credit could expand and would also adjust for inflation, starting with this year, the senate and house tax writing committees announced a deal and have a little less than two weeks to finalize it. that's because the tax filing season starts on january 29th, and that's when any code changes need to be done. the u.s. census bureau found that the child tax credit included in the 2021 covid relief bill

. >> reporter: according to the san francisco department of public health, the move comes because of budget constraints and a drop in people getting vaccinated. according to prepared statement, the end of the federal state covid-19 emergency last may also means the end of those federal and state funds that help pay for the site. there also facing a deficit this year, so the decision has been made to pull the plug on six community sites. each has been told to close by february. most are operated in coordination with their neighborhoods. despite the directive from the department of public health to stop operations here by february 10th, the operators say that they will actually continue until march. >> the people chose this site. whenever they were sick, they called and said, are you still open? it is a crucial site for our community, and it's not easy access. >> reporter: one of these will stop being a vaccination site on february 15th. we will continue passing out covid testing kits until they run out of those supplies. after march, the site will only open on the first friday of each

the department of health care services says the latest expansion of full scope medi-cal brings california closer to a healthy state for all. as the new year begins. the national debt is pushing toward a new high. the treasury department says the country's debt load is now approaching 34 trillion dollars 6 months ago, congressional republicans reached a deal with president biden to raise the national debt limit. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agree the debt is excessive but have not come to any sort of agreement on what to do about it. and your streaming entertainment options just got bigger. or they got bigger in 2023. but to avoid advertisements, you might have to pay more for it in 2020 for one report says netflix increased basic and premium plans by $3. hulu disney plus and apple tv plus went up by $3 while paramount plus raised its subscription price by only $2. one financial expert says these prices are going to continue to rise until subscribers leave the platforms. still ahead on kron, 4 news at 6 santa rosa releasing some pretty shocking numbers when it comes to the amount