I am very grateful for San Francisco general. Other who told me their personal stories are very grateful as well. My goal is for everyone i mean everyone in this community to be as grateful as i am. Dont wait for that accident to happen the plane crashed or the earthquake. Be grateful we have this our county hospital with Invaluable Services on a daily basis 24 7. And i mean 24 7. The general has already been prepared to meet the needs of our city when we need it the most soon with an outstanding general facility it will match its clinical obsolescence. This place is a hard adversity a safety net to the community. Our heart and soul felt folks on the streets or iconic to our San Francisco. With the help of the hearts in San Francisco project the foundation has raised more than 92 million clapping these hearts generate funding for vitality noochts through the hearts grant. Surgeon training in the Trauma Institute and waterfallness programs and evocational programs with people struggling
And trying to honor the origin vision that ellen and nancy had. We now call the hospital of San Francisco the general the heart of the city my the hearts project has since then support 11 million worth of projects in the hospital clapping were so glad for that, too because the general has shown us everyday its such a gem this hospital inparalleled by other cities by its care for the welfare and the house of all its citizens and its expertise and cuttingedge is amazing. Its a vial access and provide 24 hours traumatic care it serves nearly one hundred thousand adults every year and pediatric patients as well and as we saw after the air liner intensities its there are 90 for any countries twentyfour hours a day. With this years hearts events lisa and psychic letter if i get a chance to see has been totally amazing clapping we have been able to support care for elderly patient in order to reduce readmission rate to provide a van that goes into the community and anyways that underserved wo
And later than about projects earlier is he get training so youre ready to go arrest hello engineering it has all the tools that a contractor small or large can come here. I cant say enough about the center its a blessing. We do business all over the country and world and a place like the Contractor Center to identify the business in San Francisco the reality is you need training and thats what the center is here to train and make you Better Qualified to go work with the city and county and to be successful at the end. That will give people the Competitive Edge e edge at receiving contracts with the city. We have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. I mean local businesses participation in City Projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses theyre paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in San Francisco it really helps th
They dont believe that its in San Francisco. We have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and im a native San Franciscoan. They wonder how long its been here. When i tell them next year well get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, few cities have. And now, please join me in welcoming the mayor of our great city the honorable edwin m. Lee applause . Thank you very much mr. Davis for that introduction, happy valentines everybody. applause . Wow what a wonderful occasion. I mean how can you be today valentines day in a room full of heros on the field of heros yeah applause in the Innovation Capital of the world the world class city of San Francisco congratulations everybody for being a hero today. You know the San Francisco Hospital Foundation the general Hospital Foundation has been such a wonderful wonderful entity and i want to just thank stephanie your leadership, i want to thank julie and rich at the board with all of the other board members, the staff at the
Of the staph, you know sometimes the doctors have to do its emergency work but what makes that whole hospital run is literally everybody that works at the hospital from the social workers to the accountants to the administrators to the nurses, and Nurse Practitioner and is the doctors and all of the fundraisers thank you everybody for working together. And for today, again, a big thanks to ellen and pam for your leadership and bringing the hearts and the heros together. Its such a wonderful Just Community effort to support our General Hospital and all of the work that it does. Everybody knows what it does already. But i also want to say there are other heros that you are acknowledging today and i would like to just give them a word of thanks. You know, when people get to the hospital, sometimes, its in time. Sometimes its a little late. But having a worldclass hospital treat you, is what we expect and come to expect in this worldclass city. But there are also people that work in additi