christine ritchie from uc sf.ore i turn it to them to lead you through the presentation, i want to also acknowledge two individuals who played a role in the development report that you have. one is monique parish who worked with the facilitation of the meeting and also pat il who supported this work of this task force as well. [ applause ] >> at this point i will turn it over to ann. >> i'm bringing this down just a little bit. good afternoon, president chow, commissioners, director garcia. it's a pleasure to be with you today to talk about and walk you through this report. we are going to start by looking at what the goals that were set for the group, talk a little bit about process. i know commissioner sanchez in the past you have been interested in how we manage things to get done and implement them. we are going to set short and long-term goals and there was a resolution for your consideration at the end. i also in addition for introducing everyone, we have a number of people from the palliative care task forc

both with the non-profits and academic institutions, laguna honda, we have a residency program in uc sf doing rotations at laguna honored. before it was a separate entity. take a look at what's going on now. we have clinical social work, now we are getting this integrated model on how to provide dignity and respect for patients at whatever stage using these resources of this great city. you have been able to articulate that in your work. more power to you. i think you have done a great job and look forward to seeing next year's results. >> thank you, any further? director garcia, you are one of the leaders in this case. your comments concerning this document and the work that was done. >> i think palliative care has been a growing service in the city. if you think back to our hiv and aids epidemic, palliative care was all we had to provide for people. we learned that community and family were the basis of much of that care. as we move into aca, we know we are going to be looking at family and community support to look at people's care. bringing all of these entities especially people wh