luke's. i've been a nurse there for 26 years. supervisor mar: we need the main microphone working. >> if i was a physician at st. luke's until i left there this past january. however, i was involved -- i was a member of the blue-ribbon panel. thank you. cpmc is staking its future of st. luke's on winning approval of its 555 bed cathedral hill hospital. in return for agreement between cpmc and the mayor's office to build this hospital, cpmc will rebuild st. luke's with 80 beds. in 2007, after the expiration of the attorney general's conditions of the sale of st. luke's to sutter health, cpmc announced its intention to close st. luke's. the hospital staff, the community were mobilized. there began a campaign to save st. luke's. there was an outcry from the hospital staff, from community leaders, and city officials, which prompted cpmc to convene a blue-ribbon panel i consider the future of st. luke's. -- and consider the future of st. luke's. the panel recommended that st. luke's be rebuilt as

luke's. sub-acute patients are long-term care patients. they are usually with us for two or three years. many of them are in a persistent vegetative state. the blue ribbon panel recommendation is to transfer those patients to community based settings because these patients do not need to be in an acute care hospital. these are long-term care patients better served in the committee. now i will focus on the hospital services. today we serve about 1/3 of san francisco's health care needs in the hospital and emergency rooms. going forward after the rebuild, we will remain and maintain a proportion of services in san francisco. this is not a program to dominate health care in san francisco. we will retain our portion of health care, about 1/3. we're proud to the liver one out of two babies in san francisco. we also provide services to support other hospitals. for example, we deliver all the babies at chinese hospital. we do this high-quality outstanding care. we are nationally recognized for quali

luke's. the blue ribbon panel on the future of st. luke's was established in march of 2008 to create a viable plan for the acute care hospital and outpatient services. their work resulted in the blue ribbon panel report on the future of st. luke's hospital and include 11 recommendations, including a new acute care hospitals should be rebuilt on the st. luke's campus, the size of the hospital should be appropriate, and it should include service -- centers of excellence. on october 7, 2008, the commission passed a resolution endorsing the panel's recommendation. in each of the following two years, the commission passed an additional resolution that identified ways for cpmc to improve care to the vulnerable population and recorded specific targets for improvement in areas -- the commission has been monitoring the progress and cpmc has continued to meet the agreed upon goals. the three resolutions passed by the commission and the work of the blue-ribbon panel provided the framework for the follow

luke's campus. we have innovative programs for prevention and education might be held first program h --ealth first programs that are free to charity patients. in the future, there are two major changes in the outpatient setting. the first -- actually both of them are a function of response to the federal health care reform. we're going to partner much closer with our physician partners in the community to increase coordination across different care settings. a major change we're going to make, we're going to partner with dphh and consortium partners to care for 1/3 of the new medical enrollees. we will provide comprehensive medical homes from primary care to hospitalization to post-acute care for 1/3 of the 30,000 new medical enrollees. from a recovery and rehabilitation perspective, many of you know we have an inpatient psychiatric program at the pacific campus. we have 18 beds where we provide acute intervention and stabilization for mental health patients. going forward, we're going to focus on

luke's. i've also received services from cpmc because i am a breast cancer survivor and i do community activism for bayview hunter's point but i'm for all people, and i believe that cpmc will serve the people because for the last seven years, i have volunteered with cpmc to bring women from bayview hunter's point to have freeman grams and whatever services. i've seen the joy of the people that had no medical coverage is that cpmc took in. i feel that you heard enough about the jobs and all of that so i'm not going to really touch on that. i'm just going to pray that you all will hear this cry of the people and that justice will prevail for the hospitals, for all people, because if we have a major earthquake or whatever, you will be servicing people in all over and i know that from past experiences, from the 1989 earthquake. also, i'd like to say that the sooner we get the ball rolling, the better it will be for all people. thank you for this space. >> thank you, ma'am. i'm going to call a few

luke's luke's luke's duke of earl, earl, earl unfurl those pearls, pearls, pearls boys and girls boys girls and you'll make it better, better hospital world, world, world and it will come your way in a hur and ♪ i found my bills and money thrills on ca need a hospital hill and you made it better still and i thank for all you do and you still will ♪ >> what timing. thank you, walter. [applause] mr. sang? >> hi, good afternoon, honorable supervisors. i'm representing -- foundation. the cpmc project is going to be -- with the booming population in san francisco is soon going to catch up with all the hospitals and recently several i had a friend who had a heart attack. every hospital is always filled. we need additional hospitals in the city and cpmc has always offered excellent service, the best you can think of in the city, other than trauma center of san francisco general, of course. they're still one of the best hospitals in the city so please put that project retro fitting if only for the safety of the employees and for the patient as well so please approve this project. thank you. >

luke's. st. luke's is a valuable community asset with a long history in san francisco of serving the underserved. san francisco 6 hit -- san franciscans in the mission and beyond rely heavily on st. luke's for hospital and outpatient care. the emergency room helps to meet the emergency medical needs of patients, sharing that responsibility with san francisco general hospital. the second priority was to ensure increased access to cpmc, specifically with the new cathedral hill campus, for charity care and medi-cal patients. we wanted to ensure that the new cathedral bell campus would be similarly accessible to san francisco most vulnerable population. with the passage of federal health care reform, it was important that these discussions have forward-thinking and are made in the context of this changing help the environment, regardless of the supreme court 's action that will be made on the next few days. last, the desire to focus cpmc's community benefits on the most vulnerable population. we

luke's. g-- to rob the city. i will focus a little beyond on st. luke's. and we are already strainedoing business, and i am having faculty go to st. luke's to treat some of the patients, so i see this as a beginning step in the traditional direction in the care of the mentally ill. >> good evening, supervisors. but i would like to thank you for this opportunity. i am the founder and president of the national coalition of the black women of san francisco chapter of the re of san franci. give we represent over 53 chapters in the district of columbia. we are an advocacy organization, and we advocate for women and girls and empowerment of women. i would like to support cpmu, because they saw the south as a partner. -- they saw us us a partner. good it was revealed african- american women were dying of breast cancer. they could have swept it under the rug, but they did not. they decided to seek us out of a women's organization so they could locate where men and girls buying of -- dying at a young age to conduct mammograms, which stated. thank you for this oppor

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

luke's. i made one phone call to the breast cancer support very dark, and the only thing they ask is to give us a date, because i wanted to know why they were providing the breast cancer support to the community and they were not providing the breast cancer support to the omi, so that was one phone call but was provided, and they have been supporting us for the last three years, and we plan to expand in our community, so when you make the decision, i would like you to remember you are making decisions on when it comes to the health of the elderly. >> good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors. i am here to support cpmc. there is a lot of things they have done the public is not aware of. in the past years they allocated funds to specialty care. i am a member of the consortium. gcpmc awarded funds to provide specialty care's common and we serve about 7000 patients. 81% of those patients has insurance, so i am really supported a large number in need. i am here to express appreciation to

luke's? >> it is not st. luke's. it is all through the campuses. i have no idea. we're getting mixed messages. if i had my say in any of this, i would say to keep it open in the california campus. do not close the california campus. move the skilled nursing beds to the california campus. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am speaking for the president and ceo of the san francisco community clinic consortium. i am eleanor jacobs. we feel having a new hospital from the ground up will be good for the san francisco health care system. the building of the hospital will bring new jobs in to san francisco. a new hospital has the potential to recruit new providers and replace retiring providers. we are excited to work with all hospitals to improve the health and welfare of san franciscans. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> i want to take time to support what alex stated earlier. this is not a fight between labor and community. it is not either or. we support builders. we support the community and labor work toge

luke's move. i don't know if that would get us close enough. >> what he identified in the rotation were three, relatively-speaking approximately 800 populations. that is the puzzle move. >> no. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. mrs. mondejar. -- m's melara. i am not interested in changing our decision we made last time, primarily we made it very deliberately. when the community comes tonight and says you took away this piece, they were not taking into consideration what it would cost elsewhere in their district. we moved something in their district, and next week the people will come back saying you shouldn't have done that. so let's leave it where it is. so no, no, no. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. that's clear. mr. leigh? >> can i ask a question? does the second move require moving st. luke's? chairman mcdonnell: no. the intent is to keep st. luke's in district nine. it has no -- nothing to do with st. luke's present site at all, period. >> i would actually be open to looking at it. chairman mcdon

luke's needs to rebuild. right now, the management has always -- why we have to spend that money to and not rebuild the whole building? that is why we are here. thank you very much. supervisor mar: i am going to call a few more names. [reading names] >> good afternoon. i am the community to help program manager at cpmc and i support be rebuilt. -- i support the rebuild. i am a patient at cpmc. i am a two-time breast cancer survivor. not even that is my reason for the support of a seismically safe hospital. cpmc was responsible for taking care of my daughter. she delivered two lovely little girls. they are now five and three years old. they have their care at cpmc and they deserve a seismically safe, culturally appropriate, and sensitive arean for their care. i am the proud grandmother of six grandchildren. i want to be able to work, i want to be able to be safe, i want employees, doctors, patients, nurses, visitors to enjoy private rooms when they come to us for their care. i want them to be able to look out

luke's house on s.f. general. when s.f. general max's out, we triage to st. luke's. st. luke's max's out. people are waiting hours to receive emergency care. we want to see a larger facility. we want to see expanded loops. this is not an issue we're coming to because of our jobs. it is because of the care. it is an expanding area in our city. to give cpmc the green light without insuring anything for the south side is irresponsible. you will see us coming back and talking about what we need to do to expand services for people on the south side. as supervisors, that will fall in your hands as you are responsible for providing health care when the private sector is not doing the right thing. in terms of public policy issues and future planning for the city, we have to be thinking about what is our obligation. [tone!] cpmc will be taking on more healthy san francisco money. we need to look at the charity care rate. that would otherwise go into the public sector. it needs to be done in full understanding of what's cpmc's obligation is. we're standing with our brothers and si

luke's. it must guarantee that the jobs, wages and benefits of its current employees and guarantee a reasonable number of permanent jobs for san francisco residents. cpmc must limit its prices to city health plans and pay the full cost of its development proje project, affordable housing, traffic and neighborhood impact. we are very concerned about the proposed plans around cpmc's new hospital downtown and cuts to st. luke's. the city and needs to be fixed to address many concerns. we are also suggesting funding a training and placement program to trade new people to enter in the healthcare field and find real career jobs. above and beyond the hospital issue, we need to set aside funding for youth services via auditing to close corporate tax loopholes in the city. no cuts to education or healthcare, period. m.t.a. needs to put its money where if is needed for youth passes, better housing programs and we need to be a sanctuary city that doesn't have homelessness. a city that has easy food acce

is that intended as the literal truth in matthew and luke? the gospels give us one description of the birth of jesus. do archaeology and history give us another? joining us to answer these questions areu.s. open, the aute brand new "jesus of nazareth cunning of the and jeffrey sheler author of the brand new "is the bible truth?" [ male announcer ] this is the at&t network... a living breathing intelligence bringing people together to bring new ideas to life. look. it's so simple. [ male announcer ] in here, the right minds from inside and outside the company come together to work on an idea. adding to it from the road, improving it in the cloud all in real time. good idea. ♪ it's the at&t network -- providing new ways to work together, so business works better. ♪ >>> tell us what you think happened at bethlehem, jeffrey she'ller. >> well when we read two gospels, only two of the four gospels even talk about the birth of jesus and when we read matthew and luke, those two gospels, we are certainly presented with different details surrounding th

luke's is very important. we should hire more people to work at st. luke's. it covers districts 8, 9, 11. i want to focus on jobs enforcement. cpmc needs to make a stronger commitment to san francisco workers and residents. it can do so by hiring 50% the jobs they create from our community to hire san francisco residents. on the enforcement side, the agreement -- i do not want to use the word hold cpmc accountable because it is confrontational. i support cpmc. i like what they are doing. we want them to build -- to downsized cent lives, i do not think it is a good idea. -- to downsize st. luke's, i do not think that is a good idea. i appreciate the fact that they are trying to create jobs. but come on, help us. supervisor mar: thank you. i am going to call a few more names. [reading names] next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a resident of tenderloin. i am a member of the tenderloin filipino community association. make sure that cpmc it pays its fair share in helping our low income residents. cpmc plans to construct the biggest -- corporate prof

luke's will be much greater than just 80 beds. one thing that has crossed my mind is if there is a specialty at st. luke's, we might have a chance of long-term survival. a 20-year commitment -- [tone!] we're closing in on seven years of that. supervisor mar: thank you. please come forward if your name has been called. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to that these important issues. my name is james tracy. i want to clear up two misunderstandings and quote chuck dee. don't believe the hype. we want our brothers and sisters in the trades to go back to work on this project. we want you to go back to work on a socially just project that lifts all our boats, including the nurses. we're certainly not pro- earthquake as some of you may have heard. do not believe the hype. we are for increased local hire from the communities impacted by the projects. one of the classifications of jobs left out of the conversation were janitors, maintenance workers, front desk clerks. there is already capacity and training programs for thes

luke's down. and part of what i have that a concern is we have had many successful companies in san francisco, in california, in the united states has had exactly this track record. this is below this 1%, and yet they proceed. i think we are all concerned about is within a short period of time, this allows st. luke's and what they represent to the city to not be operational, so this is an important question. frankly, this is our obligation. this is what we are supposed to do. for one, i am going to need to see this information. i hope we have the time to make sure that this happens. we need to do this together. >> -- supervisor mar: thank you. supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: thank you. have you begun the renegotiation process? >> yes, absolutely. as soon as within a day or so of seeing the new numbers. supervisor cohen: yes, sir, and what day was that? >> i believe it was 12 days ago. supervisor cohen: 12 days ago. i think what is important to the members here is backed cpmc has an interesting

luke's. not to demonize anyone, but this is an era where a billionaire can buy an island and then sue his neighbors to cut their trees down so that he can have a better view of the race. this says so far proven unwilling to make sure they can have this commensurate with their $90 million in tax breaks. in 2001, cpmc made agreements to maintain the hospital at the levels it required that -- acquired it at. that is where we had a neonatal intensive care unit, a casting room, many more surgery lofts, etc., and now after a decade of dismantling, we are facing a reduction down to 80 beds, and they are looking to close the hospital after only two years. that has no business being there. they cut mental-health services and laid off front-line employees who are underserved. we need community benefits in order to -- thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is tatiana. regretfully, one doctor is not able to be here, but i am here to speak on his behalf. supervisor mar: so any obje

luke's. on thursday, there was a presentation before the planning commission. the talk about st. luke's can secure the future of st. luke's, but they only offer a events at st. luke's, and they think that is a future for us. st. luke's covers district 9, 10, and 11. if i can just say come if we picture in one of our family members has a heart attack. now we end up putting at risk and not just our members at risk, but although the paramedics. the driver to the ambulance and the one attending to our loved ones as they raced across town to try to get them to the hospital. it is outrageous all they can think of is offering 80 beds at st. luke's. cpmc should be rebuilt, but rebuilt the white -- the right way, not leaving us out in the cold. they should make sure they know that they need to take care of st. luke's, and 80 beds is not sufficient and not enough. [applause] >> hello, my dear, supervisors. my name is carl kramer with the san francisco living wage coalition. i would like to open my comm

luke's operation. the next hearing is scheduled for july 9 and that is focused on transportation in the public realm. all reports have been done by the budget analyst and the comptroller's office. we do have a pending environmental appeal. currently on july 17, the board is scheduled to hear the seir. that was the main action this week at the board. that leaves us with eight planning appeals pending for the board of supervisors. a very high number. they are expected to be heard in july. 5 new introductions. there were three pieces of legislation related to the housing trust fund i would like to share with you. the housing trust fund involves the charter amendment and the production of affordable housing, increasing moderate income housing, and stimulating the market rate housing production. it is a charter amendment that will go to the borders -- to the voters. the charter amendment is sponsored by the mayor, supervisors wiener, olague, and mar. and finally, this will not be scheduled before you unless