mr. morewitz. it was disappointing there was no comment by dr. colfax or mr. pickens about the nationwide search for a licensed nursing home administrator for laguna honda. the last we heard from their pickens -- >> i'm sorry. this item is related to a previous item on the agenda. >> no, it's related to dr. colfax not mentioning that. >> mute the caller. thank you. there's another hand. please unmute this other caller. thanks. >> hello -- >> are you there? >> can you hear me? >> and please begin. >> okay. my name is art, i'm with the sf great panthers and i know dr. colfax can't answer questions and i just wanted to let you know that, you know, there are a lot of cases of covid that i have personally seen and experienced in the last month and i find it remarkable that me, as one person in san francisco would know so many people who got covid just in the last month. and i'm wondering if there's tracking of such cases, if i'm a kaiser patient or a a sutter patient and those who treat those with covid, do they report statistics to the san francisco health departm

mr. morewitz, this is patrick. i am a little bit concerned about whether the salary savings may be contributing to the short staffing, particularly at laguna honda hospital, putting additional strain on laguna honda staff and obviously effecting the quality of care being provided to laguna honda patients. today supervisor melgar participated in a zoom call and she mentioned the potential that there may be a $64 million short-fall (indiscernible) 64 as in $64 million short-fall should be-the closure plan at laguna honda hospital go ahead. (indiscernible) didn't go into detail so don't know what she referring to the current year (indiscernible) or she is talking about the budget that would start july 1 of this year that you guys really really need to expedite getting laguna honda recertified, getting admissions resumed, and putting this whole nightmare behind us and to the extent you can avoid having to extend another sense into the hma contract that expires the end of june, to avoid exacerbating that $64 million bud

mr. morewitz, this is patrick. i am a little bit concerned about whether the salary savings may be contributing to the short staffing, particularly at laguna honda hospital, putting additional strain on laguna honda staff and obviously effecting the quality of care being provided to laguna honda patients. today supervisor melgar participated in a zoom call and she mentioned the potential that there may be a $64 million short-fall (indiscernible) 64 as in $64 million short-fall should be-the closure plan at laguna honda hospital go ahead. (indiscernible) didn't go into detail so don't know what she referring to the current year (indiscernible) or she is talking about the budget that would start july 1 of this year that you guys really really need to expedite getting laguna honda recertified, getting admissions resumed, and putting this whole nightmare behind us and to the extent you can avoid having to extend another sense into the hma contract that expires the end of june, to avoid exacerbating that $64 million bud