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Sf govtv San Francisco Government Television on. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. This is the october 2720 mean. 2023. Sorry homeless. I had my shot last night and im a little off because of it. Homeless System Behavioral Health select committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Im joined by vice chair supervisor mandelman and supervisor sherman walton. Our clerk is Stephanie Cabrera and i would like to thank colina mendoza from sfcv tv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you. On october 17th, 2023, the board of supervisor approved a motion discontinuing remote Public Comment and participation in and all board and committee meetings. Going forward, all Public Comment will be taken in person with Remote Access only being provided for those who require an ada accommodation alternative. Lee you may submit Public Comment in writing in either of the following ways. Email them to the homelessness and Behavior
[inaudible conversations] all right, so before we have the doctor, up to give what will be great keynote remarks, i want to start the morning off with having a conversation with you about something that is near and dear to me as one of those two represents a Success Story of the great specialized care system, spinal cord injury does the system of care. Before i get to exactly what the topic is, i want to ask a couple questions. What are some of the reasons why one becomes a clinician . Why do you choose to become even. Raise your hand if its money. A bunch of millionaires in here. Social status. Everybody respects about her. Job security. You always have people focus on getting better. If you are a healer, youve got some job security and its probably a combination of all of those. But again, from perspective of the statement, im willing to bet somewhere on the list of what brought you into your discipline was compassion. What is compassion . A feeling of deep sympathy for another whose
Your other point was about really the Community Providers and the type of care they deliver. You might have practiced inside and outside the va. I am note going to paint everyone the same picture. It happens to us a lot. I think there are a ton of Community Providers that are delivering extra care. Hopefully strenten them so you dont need to provide. We can provide them in house, timely and state of the art. Thats what i mean for certain things like spinal cord injury we need to make sure they are there to support our patients. At the same time for things that we think are provided at high quality in the community and maybe dont require that expertise as much like a quick exam, a colonoscopy and how do we make sure they are in our network. I think its part of our job to educate and provide resources. We started pretty much a free training program. They can get free cme credits. We have a four Course Program on military cultural competency. They can go to a web site, get that certificat
Now, federal and local Veterans Affairs officials and Health Care Providers visit the paralyzed veterans of america conference to talk about how to provide better access and specialized care for veterans with spinal cord injuries and diseases. All right, so, before we have dr. Baligh yehia come up and give what will be great keynote remarks, i want to start the morning off with having a conversation with you about something thats near and dear to me as one of those who represent a Success Story of a great specialized care system, spinal cord injury and disease system of care. Before i get into exactly what the topic is, though, i want to ask a couple questions. What are some of the reasons why one becomes a clinician . Why did you choose to become a healer . Money . Raise your hand if its money. Bunch of millionaires in here, right . Social status. Everybody respects a doctor. Job security. Youre always going to have people focused on getting better, so you need people in those industr