francis hospital, to develop a smooth transition process for members. it requires education both of future patients to know what the hospital needs to know to facilitate the discharge and hospitals need to have ways to notify the village that a patient is being discharged. we hope that with increased funding from the city, more elderly can come under our umbrella so that we can coordinate care and transition from the hospital to the home. thank you. >> i know folks from sf village are speaking, but i will read a couple of cards. >> my name is ralph baron. i am a member of the village. i am here to talk about the social benefits, really, of being a member of san francisco village. last night, as i was watching the academy awards, i was sitting with a young friend of mine, around 30. she was say to me, ralph, you know, it is so hard to find a quality friend. i said i am going to say that tomorrow. this is part of what we are faced come as older citizens, to find quality people. this is what we find in a community like san francisco village. we all know the

francis memorial hospital, you continue to work as a part-time worker. you have been a share of the laguna honda hospitals joint conference committee as well. you have been serving on the commission since 2008. it will be heavily bras with financial constraints. -- barraged with financial constraints. you have had a long history of working with the city since the willie brown days. you have been part of public health, a focus on universal health care. you have been working with them for those years, working with the foundation. your also pointed on the health commission since 2008. we need you and your expertise to try to close the gap. i want to thank you for stepping up and being part of this administration. this is your first reappointment to the commission. we need the services of lawyers. you have been a very good lawyer at the time. you are a member of the firm. you have expensive -- extensive experience. if i have to use that service, you know i am in trouble. we talked about my desire to make sure the families are well represented. you contribute

francis. they can bring them to some of the other hospitals. what we are hearing is back the other hospitals are not very responsive to our clients coming, and often, they will not necessarily refuse them, but make it very difficult. then, an hour or two we will later, an officer will be called again for the same person because the other hospitals have actually put them out. supervisor mirkarimi: do you have any specifics on the 5150 population? >> yes. we did -- we have done a couple of research studies. one in 2005 in which we look at all the 5150's over a three- month time and were comparing them and found that the police officers were more often people who were also under the influence of substance abuse who had recently within two weeks had a violent incident. in terms of the overall calls per month, as a look at my notes here, i do not have the memorized. the san francisco police informant has from 1 to 20 interactions per share with people with mental illness with an average of four contacts. a lot of that depends on different areas of t