outstanding pace to hire our new nursing home administrator and ceo sandra simon. [applause] and sandra 2 assistants jennifer wade and jill. yea. our new leadership team is in place. and we were not alone we could not do this alone we had partners who worked with us advocated for us and done everything in between to get us here. we could not have done this without passport and mayor london breed. thank you, mayor. i was not happy going in the mayor's office and giving her the news we were decertified the mayor said you can and will do it i want it done. thank you, mayor. i want to thank yes. i want to which thank the support of city attorney chu. and his team lead boy julie. amazing work. this team the teach attorneys every day worked with us. advocates. you we think the legal side is remove from the clinical side this was a close relationship. thank you, david for you and your team's leadership thank you to the board of supervisors president supervisor peskin and melgar incredible making sure weave got it done and i want to thank the leadership of the health commis

but now with programs like the cccbm, like what is called a daily interdisciplinary team meeting sandra simon brought the last two months we have those systems in place, but all new. mrs. simon has only been here since june 26 so we need a few more months, get through the medicare certification, get that plan of correction submit those corrections and then make sure that these new initiatives are hard based and then we'll be ready to accept new residents. >> can we give-before we go to colleagues, questions if okay a chance for mrs. simon to introduce herself? >> sandra simon. good to see you again. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to introduce myself. i want to say how thrilled i am to join this leadership team and just come in at the end of this 18 month of real culture change and transformative work and come in and help lead the team for sustainability so that we never go back to where we found ourselves. a little about me, i spent my whole career in skilled nursing. i was-in college i was working in fast food and my roommate said we are hiring nursing assistants and we always

but now with programs like the cccbm, like what is called a daily interdisciplinary team meeting sandra simon brought the last two months we have those systems in place, but all new. mrs. simon has only been here since june 26 so we need a few more months, get through the medicare certification, get that plan of correction submit those corrections and then make sure that these new initiatives are hard based and then we'll be ready to accept new residents. >> can we give-before we go to colleagues, questions if okay a chance for mrs. simon to introduce herself? >> sandra simon. good to see you again. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to introduce myself. i want to say how thrilled i am to join this leadership team and just come in at the end of this 18 month of real culture change and transformative work and come in and help lead the team for sustainability so that we never go back to where we found ourselves. a little about me, i spent my whole career in skilled nursing. i was-in college i was working in fast food and my roommate said we are hiring nursing assistants and we always

outstanding pace to hire our new nursing home administrator and ceo sandra simon. applause] and sandra 2 assistants jennifer wade and jill. yea. our new leadership team is in place. and we were not alone we could not do this alone we had partners who worked with us advocated for us and done everything in between to get us here. we could not have done this without passport and mayor london breed. thank you, mayor. i was not happy going in the mayor's office and giving her the news we were decertified the mayor said you can and will do it i want it done. thank you, mayor. i want to thank yes. i want to which thank the support of city attorney chu. and his team lead boy julie. amazing work. this team the teach attorneys every day worked with us. advocates. you we think the legal side is remove from the clinical side this was a close relationship. thank you, david for you and your team's leadership thank you to the board of supervisors president supervisor peskin and melgar incredible making sure weave got it done and i want to thank the leadership of the health commiss

surely laguna honda new ceo sandra simon could have filled in laguna honda for pickens for a couple hours. alternatively, laguna honda coincident commanders, could have attended the jcc meeting in picken's place. you didn't have to curtail that august 8 agenda and the meeting, which appears to have been a ruse to cut the meeting short to avoid public transparency and accountability. commissioner chow also didn't report i testified on august 8 that as you went into closed session, i noticed that had the september 3, 2019 "60 day laguna honda reform plan" troy williams and dr. colfax had cowritten to address the patient sexual abuse scandal, if that plan had been more robust and effective, laguna honda may have avoided decertification three years later. finally, i want to mention that laguna honda application to the civil service commission to acquire $18 million in potential grant and consultant hiring authority clearly outlined the period it-following submission of applications to cms and cdph that you have to have a survey and you have to wait another 90 day "reasonable assurance period"