most of you are aware of the current communities struggle going on between our community and cpmc and we think the legislation is a good idea. we are here to speak in support of it today. a lot of the concerns we have with cpmc could have been prevented by more oversight, more guidance, and more planning. we urge you to vote on this legislation today and to make sure the enforceability elements are kept intact. thank you. my name is lee im lee. i want to make three quick points. as i mentioned last time, i think one of the voices that is least present in these hearings and which we want to bring to the table is the impact of this kind of health planning legislation for our city. that means to us that our communities, particularly the south eastern neighborhoods where we work, are marginalized in the delivery of health care services were we all work. the hospital industry needs to turn a profit and make its bottom line as hard as possible. we also have a need to ensure that
the concern that we had is that if we got the late if we got delayed, we have estimated that the escalation factor is 4% to 5% a year. right now, we have a small window of opportunity as construction costs are relatively flat. if we go beyond that, we anticipate it would cost us about $5 million a year added to the project. he realized the project is funded by bond financing of about $80 million, but the balance comes from donations. we are concerned that we need to proceed with this project to serve our community. i did have some questions. i think they have been answered with the revision to the legislation, but the concern is what happens in the interim process with the ordinance adopted prior to the health plan. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker. mr. collins, with community action network. i want to put your attention it is not so much on the hospitals, but the need of the community at large. i want to read briefly a statement
meeting on friday, let s find out what our families think about the hospital and what they think about this plan. i did a survey of the 26 folks that were there and this is the outcome because i don t know if this helps. of the 26 there, 20 live in the tenderloin, four live along the franklin corridor which is on the other side. and 88% of the respondents that i talked to had either meddical or healthy kids so for me it s disconcerting to see the build of a hospital where 88% might not have access to it. they go to community clinics. when i asked what kind of hospital they d like to see in the neighborhood, most said that hospital that serves needs of children, emergency services and dental services. the other thing is the traffic and contamination issue. before you ve seen a million and one pedestrian reports in the tenderloin. it is one of the most dangerous areas to walk through and the highest density of children so for us it s disconcerting to see we ll have 10,000, 2,00
president miguel: jane martha. good afternoon, commissioners, joseph smith, coalition for health planning, san francisco. breaking down simply that cpmc has four campuses which are basically hospitals with associated services. what cpmc plans to do is phase out the california campus, concentrate outpatient services at their pacific campus and concentrate inpatient services at the new facility at van ness and geary on cathedral hill. the description of st. luke s, however, in the project plan, focuses on a new medical building and a new hospital building that is significantly smaller than the existing hospital. what we see in the d.i.r. is that there is no vision for st. luke s, no anchor. functionally, it reads as though it is an access point for specialty services provided at cathedral hill or pacific campus. st. luke s operated as a full-service hospital primarily providing charity care for well over 100 years until sudder health took over. st. luke s, this takeover happe
there are some workers somewhere that support this project. and but sciu hasn t managed to come up with the presentations like the nurses just did. they just have a few of the top leaders saying, we support this, you know, but not a whole line of people. so i want to tell you what happened to me. i was told there was a party across the hall and that they would be serving punch and there would be a raffle, a drawing, and there would be cakeuned ice cream and everything so i took a break and went over and they asked us to sign up for the raffle so i signed up for the raffle. guess what, i didn t look closely. there were a whole bunch of people signing up for this party the fine print said, when you sign up for this, that you re signing that you support this project. so, in other words, they re using all kinds of sneaky methods to try to pretend like they have workers supporting the project. but people who work at st. luke s don t support it because they can see they re being do