kristen pa tel here at dph and i'll be presenting our charity report. this will be presented to the finance and planning committee on april 3rd and we finalized this report using the commissioner's comment. so thank you for those. for this presentation today i'm going to provide some important background information related to the charity care ordnance and charity care landscape here in san francisco and then i'll go into our annual report in particular focusing on our city wide trends for charity care and then provide a little more information on the hospital specific data section that we have in our report. there are more sections in the report in the long appendix and i'm going to try to focus on those go. -- on those two. so our charity care ordnance in san francis san francisco was passed by the board of supervisors in 2001 and at the time this law was the first of its kind in the nation and it supported a spirit of of public disclosure to increase transparency, accountability around charity hospital care. the ordnance requires hospitals to report