Stay with the times. Lets kick it off with what everyone is kicking off talking about. Once again, it is ukraine. The ceasefire to clay i failed to hold. The independent square was covered in fire and smoke. The width of the list of casualties and the International Call for action is growing louder. Government,nian they have the primary responsibility to prevent the kind of terrible violence we have seen. To withdraw wide police, work with right police, work with the union. It is the regime that created created this, by undertaking positions that went the ukraine and the state. It will be necessary to discuss pacific actions to show it is important we cannot accept what is happening. Those who committed violent deeds, those getting ready to commit more, must know there will be sanctions. There will be a meeting of Foreign Affairs in europe and the question of sanctions and their degree and the targeting, this question will be asked. Those ministers from germany, france, poland, met wit
Function well. If that can be helped by the committee, that will be very helpful to mostly young patients. I would want to second that. I agree. I think if there could be because the specific needs of dialysis patients, it is such they are so unique to their disease in comparison to other disabilities. Also because its often so misunderstood by folks in the general public who again look at a person and they dont look like anything is wrong with them. Employment is a very big issue. I dont know if there could be a special department or some sort of support for folks who were on dialysis and either finding employment and also advocating for them with their employers as well that they are not being lazy, they are not cutting out of work early. There is a significant disability that they are coping with that is preventing them from working a normal schedule. That would be very helpful finding employment as well. Transportation absolutely and i would add greater access to Mental Health care
Home Supportive Services program an longterm care. That is about the resource and asset limit. Thats really important for people who are either get into expansion medical and healthy when they came in and are going to have a need for services and maybe they werent eligible for traditional medical and because they are over the resource and asset limit and the income is over the threshold. Now they are going to be able to benefit from the Longterm Services and support that are going to be available under the medical expansion program. A note under the ihs program, recently the state and working with counties have decided that individuals who come in through expansion who need ihhs are not going to need a separate disability determination and that is good because that is an administrative hurdle and will go through the certification for all people who apply for ihhs will go through and the county will do an assessment of need. The other program is covered california covered california is
40s, 50s who have jobs that they theoretically can continue to do very well. There are sedentary jobs and counselors and so on. When these people dielz most function well. If that can be helped by the committee, that will be very helpful to mostly young patients. I would want to second that. I agree. I think if there could be because the specific needs of dialysis patients, it is such they are so unique to their disease in comparison to other disabilities. Also because its often so misunderstood by folks in the general public who again look at a person and they dont look like anything is wrong with them. Employment is a very big issue. I dont know if there could be a special department or some sort of support for folks who were on dialysis and either finding employment and also advocating for them with their employers as well that they are not being lazy, they are not cutting out of work early. There is a significant disability that they are coping with that is preventing them from wor
Yes. Thank you. I just wanted to thank our councilman kostanian for bringing this to council today. Your leadership and showing us not only the personal side of this issue but also the medical and social side has really helped us all understand a little bit more about your experience and also more about what we as a department and the council might be able to do to support you and others. So thank you. I would also like to mention that there are pamphlets and booklets and sheets of information about Kidney Disease on dialysis on the table. Please help yourself. Do we have any Public Comment . Anyone on the bridge line . No . Sure. Councilmember kostanian, part of the reason why you are bringing forward this issue today. I know in the past Council Meetings there have been discussions around transportation for dialysis patients, also with a possibility of them transferring to laguna honda. Can you speak on that as well . I just came off dialysis earlier today so im not with it all today.