mr. shaw? >> thank you as you may know i used to work at laguna honda hospital secretary for a decade and when the justice department proposed this program i opposed it and i attended many long-term care counsel meetings excessing my frustrations with it they were ordered to cut 420 beds from laguna honda and now we're hearing that there's only 98 placements what happened to the patients and they can't get skilled nursing care anywhere between eureka and bakersfield because there's no skilled nursing for long-term care. when i was the secret secret ary at laguna honda wrote a proposal when we wrote that proposal, short-term rehab was defined as ninety days. why was it cut to 30? could that explain why my friend was stuck in that for months? needing too much rehab because his rehab care went over 30-days? and he could have maybe been rehabbed to ninety and stayed in town and not be dumped out of county to antioc h. if thereof there have only been so many people taking advantage of this program i

thank you. >> okay we have public comment from mr. shaw. >> okay then jerry grace. >> derek, one thing i just thought about this, very important to me, everything you had on there is a great idea. only one thing you left out -- i never thought about this -- people that can't see or can see a little bit but my friend sara is a very good person and she do a lot of different things. she has one bad arm and one good arm, and she can see a whole lot but can't go out at night and only in the day time go out there do what she need to do get back before it get dark. so what i'm trying to say is she can she can't see very well but everything you had on there is great i love it. a some of the people it's hard for me to explain it, but in the picture -- thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for your comment. if your friend is interested, she can contact our agency and we can work with her to find adaptable solutions to fit her needs. >> any other public comment? >> good afternoon councilmembers. i work with the ilrc up in san francisco. i was speakin

interest of time public comment will be restricted to one minute per person so please be concise and mr. shaw you are first. >> it's monette, sha w. i've attended meetings and they know me. you can not do long-term care without institutions such as laguna honda just not possible.

interest of time public comment will be restricted to one minute per person so please be concise and mr. shaw you are first. >> it's monette, sha w. i've attended meetings and they know me. you can not do long-term care without institutions such as laguna honda just not possible. your agenda item number 9 today will be a discussion from the dph about community integration i want you to know -- that dcip doesn't mean diversion and i will be testifying regarding how many long-term care

interest of time public comment will be restricted to one minute per person so please be concise and mr. shaw you are first. >> it's monette, sha w. i've attended meetings and they know me. you can not do long-term care without institutions such as laguna honda just not possible. your agenda item number 9 today will be a discussion from the dph about community integration i want you to know -- that dcip doesn't mean diversion and i will be testifying regarding how many long-term care patients are being diverted or dumped out of county and not into community reintegration efforts and i'm going to give you an example of a gentleman who fell off a bar stool would wound up at sfgh attempted to get him transferred to laguna honda and the excuse of not transferring him there was because he needed too much physical therapy

inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> for more information about the author visit his >> mr. shaw, with the kennedy assassination anniversary coming up, was it a benefit to publish at this time? or did it hurt? >> there was a title interest coming out because of the anniversary and there is an avalanche of books so it is crowded field. in a perfect world it might have come out at a different time.

first of all, mr. shaw, without 50th anniversary of the kennedy assassination. was it a benefit to publish your book at this time? or did it hurt? >> no, i think it was a mixed blessing and i think on one hand there was a tidal wave that came out on the 50th anniversary. yet because of that, there was an avalanche of books that deal with the assassination. and so the crowded field to enter. the book is ready to go in my publisher wanted to go with it now. so i feel good about coming out now. the thing about kennedy is one of the characters that is just such a compelling public official and figure who is obviously hot now. but i think a year from now there are so many unanswered questions about his political career that he will be a popular person to write about. >> we don't think about him as a senator very often. give us a snapshot of his career. >> that is what drew me in. we always think of him as a president. he was in the senate for eight years, before that sixers in the house. and i think he was not a master of the senate. but he was very active in foreign

first of all mr. shaw and is the anniversary of the kennedy assassination. was it a benefit to publish your book at this time or did it hurt? >> i think it was a mixed blessing. on the other hand, there is a tidal wave if interest in candidates that came out on the 50th anniversary. and because of that there is an avalanche many of which deal with the assassination, so it is a very crowded feeling to answer. in a perfect world i might have come at this at a different time, but the book was ready to go and of my publisher wanted to go with it now so i feel good about it coming out now. the thing about kennedy is that he seems to be interesting at all claims. he is one of these characters that is a public figure that a year from now, five years from now there are so many unanswered questions about his presidency, about his political career that i think he's always going to be a popular person to write about. >> we don't think about him as a senator very often. give a snapshot of his career. >> that is what brought me to him. we think of him as president kenned

first of all, mr. shaw, with the 50th anniversary of the kennedy assassination, was it a benefit to publish your book at this time, or did it hurt? >> you know, i think it was a mixed, it was a mixed blessing. on the one hand there was, of course, this tidal wave of interest in candidates that came out on the 50th anniversary, and because of that there's this avalanche of books, many of which deal with the assassination. so it's almost, a very crowded field to enter. in the perfect world i might have come out at a different time, but the book was ready to go, and my publisher wanted to go with it now, so i feel good about it comes out now. i was going to say the thing about kennedy, he seems to be interesting at all times. i mean, he's one of these characters that is just such a compelling public official, public figure that, you know, he's obviously hot now, but i think a year from now and five years from now there's so many unanswered questions about his presidency, about his political career that i think

first of all, mr. shaw with the 50th anniversary of the kennedy assassination, was it a benefit to publish your book at this time, or did it hurt? >> you know, i think it was a mixed blessing. on the one hand, there's a tidal wave of interest in kennedy that came out, you know, on the 50th anniversary, and yet because of that there's this avalanche of books, many of which deal with the fascination. so it's almost -- it's a very crowded field to enter. so in the perfect world, i might have come out at a different time, but the book was ready to go, and my publisher wanted to go with it now, so i feel good about it coming out now. i was going to say the thing about kennedy, he seems to be interesting at all times. he's one of these characters that is just such a compelling public official, public figure that, you know, he's obviously hot now, but i think a year from now and five years from now there's so many unanswered questions about his political career that i think he's always going to be a popular person