situation and the new hospital is not really ready to have the staffing that can't do the work in san francisco general hospital. supervisor chu: thank you. a few more names. >> i work at san francisco general, i'm also a shop steward. i will talk about the problem that i see as a shop steward. many get retaliated on if they raise any kinds of issues related to work. any type of issue, they stop getting called. it has nothing to do with their work level. the managers use terms like they are not a good fit. that is the excuse that they give. not that they don't have the skills they need, but they are not a good fifth. i hear that excuse over and over again, why as-needed people are let go and probationary people are let go. it doesn't matter why we let these people go, if i am a civil service employee, apparently i have more value. the reason they are not permanent is because they have to keep them in the status for years and years. that needs to be resolved. i have gone to talk about this with civil service because it is not fair. we are treated like second-class citizens in the workplace. that should

psychiatric emergency services are provided only at san francisco general hospital here in san francisco. patients are often brought in by law enforcement under what is known as a 5150, which is when they are deemed a danger to themselves, a danger to others, or gravely disabled. patients are taken by law enforcement and others to the closest hospital emergency room. of the patients at san francisco general hospital that way, 30% are admitted to psychiatry. however, the majority of patients are waiting to stabilize on medication or are awaiting transfer to another type of treatment program that is more appropriate for their needs. the next level of hospital-based care, psychiatric care, is acute inpatient psychiatric care. this is an indication bed in a hospital. the many hospitals provide psychiatric care, talking about this specifically since this is the most talked-about. there currently operating 54 psychiatric beds, acute psychiatric inpatient beds in san francisco. while those psychiatric beds are often filled to capacity, the vast majority of those patients could receive a lower l

. >> i am the director of patient financial-services for the san francisco general laguna honda and community clinics for the department of public health. the two requests for your approval are two vendor contracts that we used primarily at san francisco general to have, in the past four years, assisted us in further collections from peers -- payers that may not have been identified at the time that we had the patience accounts processed -- the patient's accounts processed through our patient accounting area. for san francisco general, our department has been allotted about $287 million, and this is two vendors that help support the continuance of furthering our collection efforts. the apollo specialty aged accounts are identifying retro medi-cals. oftentimes patients come our way, and we processing them forbes medi-cal -- for medi-cal applications which can take over eight months. they are able to use the retro accounts and be processed. they have been successful in their collection efforts to approve a our bottom line as well as triage whose specialty is in managed care. in the initial port

. >> my name is robert hester, i represent the nurses at san francisco general hospital. i would like to speak on behalf of the many nurses, many of whom are as-needed. it can range from one year to 20 years. imagine for a minute to bed after 15 years, for example, you have been applying for a test, working a full-time schedule of 40 hours a week for 15 years. yet, every time you take a test, you seem not to be good enough to be a permanent employee, hit good enough to be a 40-hour per week full-time on-call as-needed employee. it is unjust. it is not fair. we would like to get your support in ensuring that these people deserve the dignity and respect that they deserve. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. i have one last card. other than that, i do not have any cards. if folks have not heard their names or have not spoken yet, please lineup. >> supervisors to my name is jt. have been with the fine arts museum for 30 years. one of the problems we have noticed over the last four or five years is that we have had a ratio of like about 8 2/3 to 1/3 as far as per d

we have one client told us about her experience at san francisco general hospital. she rushed to the emergency room with sharp abdominal pain. she is an elderly chinese woman and his limited english proficient. 45 hours she was a san francisco general hospital, she never once received language support. she was unable to communicate christendom's and could not tell them how severe hurricane was, and they administered treatment without her being able to ask questions about what treatment she was receiving here five hours later, she was discharged and had a detailed information about what had caused her pain or what she should do next. in another hospital incident hospitalcaa -- in another incident, caa assisted a family with a 13-year-old son with a brain tumor. while he was recovering, he and his family would have eight to 10 hour periods with no language support. after multiple days, he resorted to drawing pictures for the nurses. he drew pictures to indicate that he was in pain, that he was hungry, that he was nauseated. his family was frustrating, and they never ha

san francisco. where else are our community members going to go? san francisco general? yeah, but it is overloaded. if you go in the middle of the city you have multiple hospitals in a mile radius. in southern san francisco we have st. luke's and we need it to stay open. we need the city to commit to revitalizing the broad and randolph street correspond corridor and mission street corridor. you can see the changes with the revitalization there. we need to continue that effort in our neighborhood beautification with the randolph and broad street corridor and mission street. we have community action grants which really do a lot. it gets our community members involved. it gets them to be part of our community, to invest their own time and commitment. that is what makes a good community is the members getting involved themselves, the residents. we need to continue to work on graffiti removal. it sends a mental when you come into a message and don't see a lot of graph fitty. we have made great strides but we are looking at losing more police officers and we need more academies

supervisors use a 2003 report given to all the supervisors at that time that is focused on san francisco in general and how badly-run the revenue stream was and how badly-run the computer system was. i should know. my department was one of the main ones examined in that report. hearing this discussion of items five, six, seven, and eight kind of brings back memories when i was reading about bernie madoff's reports. he was very convincing, very convincing. so many people, affluent people, believe diane bernie madoff. hopefully we are not going to be misled like in the bernie madoff example. i would also like to remind all the old-timers, there used to be a card game in new york called 3-card monte. hopefully we are not being given a three-card monte by the department of public health. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. any other speakers? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have heard public comment in department presentations. item number six, the police department's request, can we take the budget analyst recommendations without objection? ok, we have a motion to approve the budget analys

san francisco tender loin district. the shooting happened just after 1:00 near ellis and leavenworth streets. the victims were taken to san francisco general hospital. injuries are not believed life threatening. investigators believe the shooter knew the victims and may have been in a relationship with one of them. >> fire crews face strong winds and a lack of water in the battle against two house fires in contra costa county today. these occurred on bethel i'll yanld. firefighters say there are no hydrants nearby. four water trucks came to the rescue. along with a fire boat and 20 miles per hour gusts. the people inside of the homes were able to get out safely. >> i was in there. the fire came through the front windows and my porch is on fire. and i didn't have anything but the pants i got on. >> both homes were destroyed and an investigation into the cause of the fires will continue. and police looking for a driver who smashed into an apartment bedroom then took off. there were three adults and three children in the house. and none was hurt. police are looking for a danieled white chevy truck. >> san francisco suspended sheriff has given

the first victim was taken to san francisco general with a non-life threatening wound and a female juvenile went to san francisco general hospital with a gunshot wound to her left arm. police haven't made any arrests. >>> in san josi police say a man shot on cadillac drive last night is expected to survive. it happened just after 8:00 knew south winchester boulevard. officers say they found the 28- year-old with at least one gunshot wound. he was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. so far, no arrests have been made and investigators are still looking into a motive. >>> the streets of san josi were relatively peaceful last night for cinco de mayo. there was a heavy police presence as scores of people came to the downtown area despite the lack of any special events. for the past two years the city has canceled its official parade due to violence. this year some bars and restaurants hired private security guards to try to prevent crowds from getting out of hand. there were some arrests in san josi last night. police say about 30 people were taken into custody on a variety

again, the note on the consultants listing gets eliminated, but and the reference to san francisco general hospital eliminated, therefore we have silver terrace, this the valley, the or hollywood, bay view heights, bayview, hunters point, the central waterfront, dog patch. jamie, of those, which should be eliminated because we do not have recognized neighborhoods or public submission? >> we did not have visitation, i believe the same is true of bayview hunters point. mr. pilpel: i would still include them. i think we should recognize them. and i think we should still candlestick properly -- we should spell candlestick properly. >> i don't know if they gave specific boundaries, and is that why it is not recognized? i believe we have kept that as a whole. >> sorry, i believe bayview, hunters point, i was incorrect about that. it should be listed. mr. pilpel: and i think potrero is potrero. mr. mcdonnell: bayview, hunters point is fine. >> it is split according to the the department of elections, the planning neighborhood, as submitted. mr. mcdonnell: it is not included? i'm sorry, let's go b

. >> and there is tourism, number one dins story in san francisco, generating $8 billion a year and there are projections that are very, very good. >> there is memorial day it's not a special event but it's crazy down here. u.s. open golf tournament coming in june is a nearly guaranteed event z there is a either way will be a action packed tourist summer. >> there are 7 to eight million people visit san francisco this, summer kicking off with the 75th anniversary yesterday. >> this is amazing. and ended up watching fire works for a while. works for a while. >> u.s. this broadcast captioned in realtime by adrena ordubegian. golf tournament coming up june 11 -- to 17th. and a year in advance of next year's the family is here for a family wedding but they're playing tourists first. >> we're headed to alcatras and go dog a wine tour. we're going to hit golden gate park tomorrow to see that. >> and speaking of a fleece or two? >> yes. or three, or four. >> the san francisco travel association says hotel occupancy numbers won't be in for a couple months but expected to skyrocket beginning this

the victims taken to san francisco general hospital. and investigators still looking for the male gunman. >> there is a woman watching television that was attacked last night. police say the suspect entered through a open window. he hit her in the face with an unknown object. police found her bleeding can with cuts to the head and face. >> the president is scheduled to land in the bay area in a little more than an hour from now, visiting silicon valley to raise campaign cash at three fund-raisers. he was at a fund-raiser this afternoon tickets topping out at $40,000 per couple. the president earlier was in colorado springs delivering commencement address and shook hands with graduates. >> in redwood city, prot yofrts vowed to be there to greet him. some streets are already closed and abc 7 news is live. >> this staurts this about an hour, you can sigh behind me there are people gathered and waiting to and for the president to arrive. and there you can hear behind me, protestors as well. preparations started weeks ago. the redwood city p

it was members of the san francisco board of supervisors who came to ask them to open san francisco general hospital, which they did. they ran it for four years until a very familiar thing happened, and that was the county board of supervisors had a dispute about how to pay health care bills. the sisters said we've had enough of that and went on to create st. mary's hospital. as you can see, very familiar with how the city works. even then, over 150 years. it is an important issue. we're glad to be able to provide it. we're glad to be able to be here and to recognize some super creative people and the super creative programs. the committee which reviewed folks and review projects had a tough time picking who should be chosen and who should be recognized. the list is fantastic. spur, of course, has worked for years and sponsor of this good government awards for a long time to make sure that the folks that work so hard that do not get recognized every day -- you do get recognized. firstly, from the business community, i want to say how proud we are to have you and how proud we are for the wor

. >> johnny is working on the new san francisco general hospital project and spent one month at a apprenticerainingship center. it lasts four years. in the grandfather's day there was no training except what you got on the job. >> the training was evolved. wages and benefits have increased dramatically, bottom line, it's still hard ass work. there is no getting around it. >> the golden gate bridge was the first all union project. now, the grandson is an union leader. >> in the day when he built the golden gate, there were probably in the thousands of workers. now building of the new bay bridge, it's maybe 10 percent of the amount. >> later in life, al became a kind of icon himself. representative of the iron workers that helped shape the bay area as we know it. a new carquinez replaced the original. he died a few weeks before it was officially named after him. >> there is no replacing that man. >> his family is the living legacy, four generations and counting. heather ishimaru, "abc 7 news." >> of course the golden gate bridge celebration takes place this sunday. there will be concerts and e