june 7th, a woman's purse was stolen inside the stricker cafe located at 65 sutter st.. an unknown group stopped a possible suspect and beat him up. he claimed it was security, but when police talked to security, they said it was not them. i think there were several different groups that were dealing with this. we never determined whether he was the actual person who stole the purse or not. june 5th, at about 11:00 p.m., a $200 camera was stolen from the ambassador club on geary street. on june 6th at 10:30 p.m., a parolee at large was arrested on the sidewalk at 538 broadway. may 25th, at 10:30 a.m., a suspect was arrested at the club on broadway the ordinance there has helped we would like to work more closely with the doorman -- the doormen working in those areas. it could be the doormen that have advised a person ought to stand there, as well as an officer. we would like to the -- advice a person not to stand there, as well as an officer. we would like them to be on the same page. lastly, a man approached two different

june 7th, a woman's purse was stolen inside the stricker cafe located at 65 sutter st.. an unknown group stopped a possible suspect and beat him up. he claimed it was security, but when police talked to security, they said it was not them. i think there were several different groups that were dealing with this. we never determined whether he was the actual person who stole the purse or not. june 5th, at about 11:00 p.m., a $200 camera was stolen from the ambassador club on geary street. on june 6th at 10:30 p.m., a parolee at large was arrested on the sidewalk 53

st. luke's to sutter health, cpmc announced its intention to close st. luke's. the hospital staff, the community were mobilized. there began a campaign to save st. luke's. there was an outcry from the hospital staff, from community leaders, and city officials, which prompted cpmc to convene a blue-ribbon panel i consider the future of st. luke's. -- and consider the future of st. luke's. the panel recommended that st. luke's be rebuilt as a full- service hospital and the board approved this. >> i have spent a good deal of my non work time attempting to ensure that the hospital i which i worked for 26 years, st. luke's, remains a viable acute- care facility in this city. i am an emergency room nurse and i continue to fight for st. luke's that will be vibrant and viable over the years. once we were a thriving acute- care hospital, we now function at a fraction of the size to use to be. what has happened is the starting of a hospital and there is no logical conclusion that the starvation will lead to its demise. the record at st. luke's shows there must be an agree

make it better today say lay, lady lay lay across your west sutter west bay stay, lady stay stay because the expensive night is still ahead your stluke psychiatrist is going to get you mighty clean and it's the best hospital you've ever seen stay, lady stay stay across your sutter way bed bed. and ♪ st. luke's luke's luke's duke of earl, earl, earl unfurl those pearls, pearls, pearls boys and girls boys and girls and you'll make it better, better hospital world, world, world and it will come your way in a hur and ♪ i found my bills and money thrills on ca need a hospital hill and you made it better still and i thank for all you do and you still will ♪ >> what timing. thank you, walter. [applause] mr. sang? >> hi, good afternoon, honorable supervisors. i'm representing -- foundation. the cpmc project is going to be -- with the booming population in san francisco is soon going to catch up with all the hospitals and recently several i had a friend who had a heart attack. every hospital is always filled. we need additional hospitals in the city and cpmc has always offered excellent service, the best you can think of in the city, othe

st. luke's, and we want to make sure sutter holds its promises of keeping open for the communities surrounding. >> the soft sell is 30 seconds, so i am sorry it scared new. >> i am the monther of a patient at st. luke's. i work in icu, so good afternoon, a supervisor and commissioners. i am a registered nurse. my specialty is organ transplant and intensive care. my daughter, 27 years old, was diagnosed. she communicates by moving her eyes back and forth, one movements for yes and two movements for no. this is the way she expressos in the world, and this is our world. they have seen a patient in understanding our situation, but it required several transfers for worsening symptoms, and it has been transferred back to the holidays. -- to the home base. i would hate to think of our lives without such strong support. i know places like this have a unit and are few and far between, and the places without hospital support. good where places like this should be a standard and not an exception. >> i am going to call a few names. [list of names [ >> i have worked out st. louis for 40 years. my specialty

thing here, and i would say you need to absolutely get that in writing from sutter with no ifs and all of that. they want to keep st. luke's open if -- the ifs did not happen. that is their ticket out. even with contract negotiations, we agreed to have joint seniority. [bell rings] so whatever hospital would close, there was a question of were the new one would be rebuilt, and the senior nurses would have jobs but that was in our contract we agreed to. now sutter management has put a proposal in to rescind that and separate the seniority. supervisor mar: when the rebuild happen? >> it happened in castro valley, and they're due to move in in december. supervisor mar: how did it impact overall cost of health care in the area? >> i do not know yet, but they have not moved in. we have elderly, medi-cal, uninsured, and more. they just do not want them to go to castro valley, and they do not want the hospital anymore. supervisor cohen: i have a question for you. cpmc has said that they have built in a certain trigger points that would relieve them of their obligation to continue to support st. luke's hospital. i was wond

st. luke's open for another 150 years. what is the health insurancare ? we have learned sutter health has engaged in business practices designed to consolidate hospital services and eliminate competition to leverage control in price setting in the health-care market. that is what they are doing -- leveraging control to set prices triggered an article published in the "los angeles times" last see your contributed who did last year contributed higher prices to a few systems, particularly senator. much of the reason for higher costs northern california lies with solder. goo-- sutter. the consolidation is a serious problem, and finally, the federal trade commission in 2008 determined when merger in the east bay was anti-competitive. you have three respected authorities. did you not take our word for it. consolidation leads to higher prices. it is designed to create consumer demand so health insurance plans to do not include the hospital in their networks will be less popular. it was the same objective when they merged in oakland. it raises questions about what is the optimal size o

st. luke's hospital, i call upon you to require, first of all, sutter to provide the city and county of san francisco with an annual fund for mental health care equivalent to the cost of the 32 psychiatric builds it unlawfully removed from senate colleagues hospital. second, it sutter is allowed to build 555 beds at the cathedral hill location, it should be required to a lot at least 32 beds for psychiatric care. third, the board of supervisors should join with the east bay politicians who are investigating whether they are really operating as the nonprofit claims to be. they consistently appeared to operate as a nonprofit organization with profit-taking taking precedence over health- care delivery. having spent many years working in nonprofit organizations, i think it is not humanly possible for one such as they claim to be. supervisor mar: thank you, reverend fox. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello, my name is leigh white, and i am with a physician's organizing committee, and i am here to speak on behalf of a doctor, so this is his statement. supervisor mar: so, collea

st. luke's. of course, jobs are important, both in construction and in medical services and first source hiring should be included and enforced. but beyond a token level. and if sutter is going to be the largest employer in san francisco, we do not want an example of harming existing employees and not having rehiring rights at the new hospitals. but in terms of jobs, i do not think that is enough. neither the planing concepts or the zoning of cesar chavez or van ness as their propose now will facilitate future development of appropriate ancillary or surrounding employment generating areas. think of two examples. a negative one, pill hill in oakland or telegraph and broadway are dead in the vicinity of the major hospital in the complex but i positive one, mission bay, where hospital uses a conscious and complementary use to the other activities, community facilities, and housing in the area and vice versa. this rezoning should not have been done without looking at the context of the future desirable surrounding uses and traffic flow. [bell rings] to remedy that, the development agreement needs to provide funding for such studies in both areas. do it right. consider w