And promotions staff within Population Health, and those folks are under this yellow block under operations, but that means that theyre also overseeing the Human Services, which is doing housing and feeding. [inaudible] within Population Health, and that modelling that theyre doing is both our normal work of taking in public results of Infectious Disease tests, but its also new work that i think is really an advancement of what we normally do in the department, working with outside assistance for modelling and making sure that we are able to project into the future. And that is led by jim marks, who is an anesthesiologist and many others in that structure. Go forward. Ill let you know that all of the guidance that comes out is part of the information and Guidance Group that is headed by reeta nguyen, dr. Rita nguyen, and she is part of Population Health and leads a team of doctors and physicians and they write all the research about what the current recommendations are. That group had
So im justice delighted to have her join just delighted to have her join the department. So its a great announcement to make to you all today. And then i, again, i will go through the covid19 update as the next. The agenda item and i am prepared to take any questions. Clerk thank you, dr. Colfax. Commissioners, before you might have any questions. Number one, can i ask everyone except actually everyone to mute themselves except for dr. Colfax right now. I see a lot of microphones on and were hearing someone typing. So everyone would please mute yourselves. And then the Public Comment line, any Public Comment for the directors report . Lets give it one second. Im going to share the Public Comment line info real quickly. Okay. There are no questions from the public. Im going to put this line up quickly for that in case number is watching. Commissioners, if you have any questions for dr. Colfax on the directors report, please raise your hand. Commissioner chow this is dr. Chow. I cant rai
Or whatever the processes would be, for a more permanent way of making sure that hiring is really more effective as you have shown . Thank you, commissioner, for that question. Just so you know that part of what we did is that we dismantled some of the norm processees that we used in hiring. But even with that, if you looked at just the nursing, for instance, that theres some things that we did which we can keep as we go forward. And im hoping that it will also blend and lend into the rest of the type of hiring that we do. With the directive from the mayor we were able to bypass some of the Civil Service rule processes in terms of hiring. But what we did specifically is to start looking at with the nurses and hiring without having to wait for the supervisor who is doing the clinical work to do the interviews and the processing. And h. R. Took control of that. And those are some of the things that we can do and to look at in the future as we start in our hiring process. One of the key t
[moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] neil we have just completed what is one of the longest moments of silence ever recorded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, 8 minutes, 46 seconds to indicate aicers knee before he ultimately died two weeks ago. This being simultaneously recognized around the world as exchanges in towns, protests all stopped in their tracks to honor the victim who is now become a cause and a big cause at that. Already we heard from new York Governor Andrew Cuomo says hopes to move rapidly on legislation that will reform the Police Forces in the state of new york. There is a similar move afoot to do the same on the federal level. Some going so far as to advocate totally defundings Police Forces all together. They are a minority of the Progressive Movement but a powerful and vocal element within that call to change business as usual within
Commissioner scott this is commissioner scott. I move the acceptance and staff recommendations contained in the presentation now on page 29 and ive forgotten the earlier page and the resulting rate cards that have been presented. President breslin do i have a second . Vice president follansbee this is commissioner follansbee. I second the motion. President breslin any other discussion . Commissioner zvanski commissioner breslin, im sorry. I was muted, but i do have a couple of questions, if i may. President breslin certainly. Go ahead. Commissioner zvanski ive noticed for some employees, the employee and family plus rate have been going down im sorry for the echo and im wondering why those rates or at least the outofpocket seems to be diminishing. I was curious about that, and i may have misunderstood something. I thought i saw somewhere there was a charge for a u. H. C. Dental h. M. O. , and im wondering what happened because i thought we had delta for employees. And the last thing, i