Benison. The question . Yes, i do have a question ask your questions not at this time i dont have a question for you. Okay. You need to ask him the question last year i think the state legislature made lots of laws for the improvement of the checking up on thwhat you call it . The health care facilities. Those effectivethose laws are effective i think for the last maybe 6 months. How good is those laws . When you look at those laws do you find more deefficient on those caring for the seniors . Ill try to answer this briefly. First off benison is involved in actual testimony in sacramento so he may have been involved in that recent legislation. Continued oversight of Skilled Nursing and Residential Care is important. One challenge of the legislation is increezed responsibility is getting increased funding. The good news is we have seen increased funding and benison is tied with the kunt law and that is something constantly added into his program i add commissioner that much of the legis
Okay. You need to ask him the question last year i think the state legislature made lots of laws for the improvement of the checking up on thwhat you call it . The health care facilities. Those effectivethose laws are effective i think for the last maybe 6 months. How good is those laws . When you look at those laws do you find more deefficient on those caring for the seniors . Ill try to answer this briefly. First off benison is involved in actual testimony in sacramento so he may have been involved in that recent legislation. Continued oversight of Skilled Nursing and Residential Care is important. One challenge of the legislation is increezed responsibility is getting increased funding. The good news is we have seen increased funding and benison is tied with the kunt law and that is something constantly added into his program i add commissioner that much of the legislation passed last year would have effected the state licensing and review where people go out. Most of that was not n
[inaudible] are our current contractor so the new contract will be a continuation of their services. I think the commission is familiar with the program. I want to highlight the newer aspects of the contract. The big one is the new contract features additional staff which is consistently a problem as they are probably still underfunded even at this point. We get one new full Time Employee as well as continue 3 part time contractors. As a result of the hiring this will help the program be better able torespond to the services as well as [inaudible] one of the new contractors a cantonese speaking special ist. The board of supervisors recently passed lgbt senior Long Term Care bill of rights. The [inaudible] will be one of the programs involved in the implementation of that ledgeilation going forward. The other thing is continue to build the relationship with the high cap program. The programs found they have client with overlapping needs or one is better suited. With that im happy to ans
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