ms. withey.you heard from director garcia a list of the city's acts as far as mental health services, including an attempt to get cpmc to improve its somewhat disappointing record in charity care. what you have not heard so far is a single word addressing the needs of the seriously and chronically mentally ill. as a matter of fact, that was brought up by our group at the blue ribon committee. those 16 beds do not serve the chronically ill as i try and present a patient to them. so what we have here is a proposal to create two new hospitals, two fully functioning emergency rooms and no psychiatric inpatient facilities on site. what is going to happen to psychiatric patients who come to those emergency rooms or who are brought there by the police because psych emergency is on diversion 30% of the time? i can pretty much tell you, because i can tell you what happens at st. luke's, since they closed their psych unit in 2006. one of our members is an emergency room doc at st. luke's, and he says that