Of the community to advocate for them and also to provide care for everyone including those without the ability to pay. In this slide here i also showed to the hospital, we take care of a pretty high population together of medicare and med cal patients. As i mentioned, about half of our patients are med cal patients. At this point, i will turn it over to abby who will share a bit of the community bents that we provide. Good afternoon commissioners. As you know st. Marys is long standing provider of Community Benefits in San Francisco. This was what was reported in fiscal year 14. Youll see this again shortly. Closure of the skilled nursely facility at st. Marys as i think you understand has been a long arduous and a discerned commission on the part of st. Marys and sisters of mercy. Skilled nursing unit at st. Marys is short term acute unit that provides physical rehab and rehabilitative care. Many hospitals across the United States pulled Skilled Nursing units within the four walls in
The census actually and the patients have dropped primarily in the last couple of years. It probably is a multifactorial kind of reason. A part of that is the changes in some of the practice of our physician. Started about two years ago our program they have expanded the number of hospice. Our hospice started to follow patients in facility. Thats one of the reasons where attending physicians and patients were receptive. They go to a Skilled Nursing facility where they can be followed by the same group of physicians. Another thing is that one of our long standing physicians at st. Marys actually have become very active in one of the local sniffs and medical directors, they provide great rehabilitation services. Our orthopedic has been very satisfied in the patient and the patients came back with great comments. We have another physician. Started following some of the patients in the Skilled Nursing facility. He has been doing some of that prior to then, he had been putting some of the p
Number of hospice. Our hospice started to follow patients in facility. Thats one of the reasons where attending physicians and patients were receptive. They go to a Skilled Nursing facility where they can be followed by the same group of physicians. Another thing is that one of our long standing physicians at st. Marys actually have become very active in one of the local sniffs and medical directors, they provide great rehabilitation services. Our orthopedic has been very satisfied in the patient and the patients came back with great comments. We have another physician. Started following some of the patients in the Skilled Nursing facility. He has been doing some of that prior to then, he had been putting some of the parents at st. Marys and following them. We collaborate with community sniff. The physician would folsom of these patients up to sniff. If they need to come back or for placement, they would work with st. Marys and we would take care of these patients. Its probably a numbe
The motion to accept the minutes are in order. Commissioner pating you want to make that make a motion to approve. That will be with his comments. Is there a second . Second. Are there further additions or corrections to the minutes . Were ready for approval. Those in favor say aye. Aye. The minutes have been adopted. Our next item please. Item three is directors report. Im looking for my questions under the director report. I will not be discussing any items. The directors report is before you. I guess ill ask only on the humming bird place and exactly how does it function. People go themselves or they are referred by agencies or officers or what . Were looking for referrals that can be the Homeless Outreach team from psych inpatient. Its a true driven model. We do have over the much of the staff appears. Its a day program. The Navigation Center just open end. We had two individuals we thought there were 50 people that day. Two individuals who we thought might do better in a more calm
The census actually and the patients have dropped primarily in the last couple of years. It probably is a multifactorial kind of reason. A part of that is the changes in some of the practice of our physician. Started about two years ago our program they have expanded the number of hospice. Our hospice started to follow patients in facility. Thats one of the reasons where attending physicians and patients were receptive. They go to a Skilled Nursing facility where they can be followed by the same group of physicians. Another thing is that one of our long standing physicians at st. Marys actually have become very active in one of the local sniffs and medical directors, they provide great rehabilitation services. Our orthopedic has been very satisfied in the patient and the patients came back with great comments. We have another physician. Started following some of the patients in the Skilled Nursing facility. He has been doing some of that prior to then, he had been putting some of the p