the next one year a serious -- near us is st. luke's. i made one phone call to the breast cancer support very dark, and the only thing they ask is to give us a date, because i wanted to know why they were providing the breast cancer support to the community and they were not providing the breast cancer support to the omi, so that was one phone call but was provided, and they have been supporting us for the last three years, and we plan to expand in our community, so when you make the decision, i would like you to remember you are making decisions on when it comes to the health of the elderly. >> good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors. i am here to support cpmc. there is a lot of things they have done the public is not aware of. in the past years they allocated funds to specialty care. i am a member of the consortium. gcpmc awarded funds to provide specialty care's common and we serve about 7000 patients. 81% of those patients has insurance, so i am really supported a large number in need. i am here to express appreciation to

st. luke's can secure the future of st. luke's, but they only offer a events at st. luke's, and they think that is a future for us. st. luke's covers district 9, 10, and 11. if i can just say come if we picture in one of our family members has a heart attack. now we end up putting at risk and not just our members at risk, but although the paramedics. the driver to the ambulance and the one attending to our loved ones as they raced across town to try to get them to the hospital. it is outrageous all they can think of is offering 80 beds at st. luke's. cpmc should be rebuilt, but rebuilt the white -- the right way, not leaving us out in the cold. they should make sure they know that they need to take care of st. luke's, and 80 beds is not sufficient and not enough. [applause] >> hello, my dear, supervisors. my name is carl kramer with the san francisco living wage coalition. i would like to open my comments from a quote from someone. our ability to make progress is directly connected to giving every family the dignity of a paycheck. these other words of our mid- year. it is inaugural address on january 8. thank you, mayo

is a pretty critical piece of information. i think for those of us for whom it is extremely important that st. luke's remain open and a viable hospital, this is pretty critical. we have been led to believe that the 1% was very theoretical because it was so far from what the reality was of any projection for what the margins remain in the coming years, so that may not be adequate. i think it is very, very important that this issue be resolved. and if the measures stays the same, we will obviously have to know what those are, and if there is a renegotiation and a different metric that is going to be used, i guess my question will be when is that negotiation going to happen, and i know everyone is sort of an awkward place here, given whatever confidentiality restrictions exist, but i hope everyone from cpmc and the mayor's office and dph can understand that st. luke's remains open and a viable hospital, not to even know that can happen, so when do you anticipate that there will ever be adequate or complete information or if there is a renegotiation, when that will be presented. >> supervisor, i regret t

st. luke's as a reliable community resources. a full-service hospital for the city's south eastern sector. now is the perfect time to negotiate a project. we can use this opportunity to win commitments for a sustainable st. luke's with the scope and volume of services that will best serve the needs of the community. i urge you to use this time wisely. supervisor mar: rachel is going to wrap up very quickly. >> we would like to be able to do what you would like to do, too, to trust an agreement that serves the best interest of the city and the information is verifiable and true. cpmc's questionable track record and business practices, their week provisions to remain -- they're all disconcerting to us. there are more responsible provider standing in line. let's look out for the future of what is best for san francisco. let's really look at the big picture. trust and verify, thank you so much. supervisor mar: that concludes the presentations we have had on this item. i know we have a question from supervisor cohen. supervisor casupervisor mar: i n alerted by the clerk that we have to do one housekeeping item. tom we were said the vote on item number

is just not enough. we need to get creative on how we use the transportation. then we have st. luke's hospital which is a concern here in district 11. with the deal with cpmc we are concerned they will close it. that has been a fight people have been fighting for years and we want you to hear that we need a hospital in the southern part of 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. t

is a good. the mission and excelsior also have significant numbers. the used to deliver 1300 babies per year, and yet, this eliminates inpatient pediatric at st. luke's. not to demonize anyone, but this is an era where a billionaire can buy an island and then sue his neighbors to cut their trees down so that he can have a better view of the race. this says so far proven unwilling to make sure they can have this commensurate with their $90 million in tax breaks. in 2001, cpmc made agreements to maintain the hospital at the levels it required that -- acquired it at. that is where we had a neonatal intensive care unit, a casting room, many more surgery lofts, etc., and now after a decade of dismantling, we are facing a reduction down to 80 beds, and they are looking to close the hospital after only two years. that has no business being there. they cut mental-health services and laid off front-line employees who are underserved. we need community benefits in order to -- thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is tatiana. regretfully, one doctor is not able to be here, but i am here to speak on his behalf. supervisor mar: so any obj

is a good idea. -- to downsize st. luke's, i do not think that is a good idea. i appreciate the fact that they are trying to create jobs. but come on, help us. supervisor mar: thank you. i am going to call a few more names. [reading names] next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a resident of tenderloin. i am a member of the tenderloin filipino community association. make sure that cpmc it pays its fair share in helping our low income residents. cpmc plans to construct the biggest -- corporate profits -- the 99% are suffering. cpmc -- how many jobs will be in the tenderloin? cpmc is only offering to hire 40 new jobs from the surrounding communities. tenderloin is demanding more jobs, more local hires, and more job training opportunities. my daughter is 20 years old. she landed a job. she is a misfit there. i told her, you are a square peg in a round hole. i urge the honorable members of the board of supervisors to ensure that residents of the tenderloin will benefit from this project. we ask for cpmc to help the tenderloin. supervisor mar: i would like to say, we have been hearing for about four hours. there are still about 60 ca

st. luke's is that now, we are in a precarious position. i say it would be easy to close us. we're missing vital services. the two we have are in danger of being closed. there is talk about that. we do not have much of a census or physician base. we have been downsized. i think cpmc will take almost acutely ill patients. when that will changes when the new hospital is built and they are able to be filled up with important, presgious, paying patients. the amount of patience left at st. luke's will be much greater than just 80 beds. one thing that has crossed my mind is if there is a specialty at st. luke's, we might have a chance of long-term survival. a 20-year commitment -- [tone!] we're closing in on seven years of that. supervisor mar: thank you. please come forward if your name has been called. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to that these important issues. my name is james tracy. i want to clear up two misunderstandings and quote chuck dee. don't believe the hype. we want our brothers and sisters in the trades to go back to work on this project. we want

gooone is the track record but compels us to be assured of any agreements for this corp. stereo -- for this corporation. we can ensure there is a future for st. luke's hospital. there are already concerned about whether doctors possible with a current agreement. i am going to introduce a couple of young leaders, because some have to go home. i am going to introduce a couple of members of the progressive association. i have damien and eric -- jamie and eric. >> we are trying to move this along. >> i am from the chinese progressive association. i just want to make a comment about the practice thos zes. my mom has been a patient for a while, and she has had a good experience, but a few years back she'd mysteriously disappeared for what she called a business trip. i found out she needed surgery to remove of benign tumor in her breast, and cpc denied her on the basis she had medical and not private insurance, and recently she needed surgery on her ankle but was denied again because she had medical. i find this they are going to be true to their word they should not turn away medical patients, especially in serious condition like this and should also comm