. >> hello, my name is teresa palmer. i have been working on the subacute issue and with the families for two to three years. one of the things i wanted to clarify is when the 17 patients were transferred from st. luke's to davies, they committed to take care of them only until they died and then would return the beds to the 38 s.n.f. beds that were previously there. it is a very -- the skill level needed to be a subacute nurse is very close to the level for an icu nurse, and the same for albion. to recruit sufficiently skilled staff for a temporary job is much harder. this is one of the bases of the request that they be pressured to make those 17 beds permanent so we can have permanent staff that is adequately skilled because what we are having is a lot of discount -- discontinuity of staff. when you have patients with very abnormal baseline to begin with, if you don't know them, it is hard to tell if they are doing worse. i want to point out that only two of the eight patients that died were comfort care, and the rest w