dr. barbara buscher. i am currently the vice chief of staff at st. luke's. i practice family medicine at st. luke's hospital for over 30 years. i am also the chair of family medicine for the pacific and davies campuses. we provide care to hundreds of thousands of san franciscans. we need to continue to recruit new primary care physicians who are in short supply across the country as well as the up-and- coming specialists. across all of our campuses, we have an aging physician group, and while all of the hospitals in california are mandated to retrofits or rebuilt, it is very difficult to recruit physicians to a hospital that is not state of the art, as we have heard. at st. luke's, we do have a medical staff that is state of the art. we are dedicated to continuing of st. luke's mission. over the past six years, we have fought to keep st. luke's hospital open, and it was acknowledged that seen as a valued an important community aspect. but it has been deemed unsafe and likely unable to be retrofitted. our only hope of maintaining a vibrant and thriving medica