many low-income communities depend on. cpmc must operate in be sustainable and phillippe stop st. luke s hospital for the southeastern san francisco committees. it is writes for them to think of profits and service to the port. i hope that our good commissioners will ensure that cpmc do its fair share in serving low-income patients before they think up approving it. we demand that cpmc should increase primary-care access in our community and make long-term commitments to the community- based clinics in providing direct care in the hospital. we should ensure many medicare and medi-cal patients like we re able to use cpmc facilities. we have the right to health care. we demand that cpmc should hear our voice and come up with a solution to these issues by signing a mutually-accepted community benefits agreement. thank you very much. thank you, commissioners. i am a member of the tenderloin filipino american community association. cpmc should address all of important issues tha
overcrowded. so we do definitely need the whole community of san francisco to have st. luke s not only restored to what it used to be and maybe even expand it. please join me to join3a please join me to support 3a. thank you very much. hello. my name is jason frazier. i do not have anything prepared today, but i am here to speak against the dmbc whatever it is. i want to say that i had multiple sclerosis, part of the tenderloin. and i believe that i need a place where i can go that is close to the tenderloin, because i go to general now. it is good. i like general. there should be more like general. a profit making company like that pmbc plays is not right. thank you, my friends. . giants. [laughter] commissioner fong: go giants. good afternoon, commissioners. it s like a resident of tenderloin for about six years. it supported the filipino community organization. i am here today to speak about the proposal for the cpmc hospital on and van ness and how this project wi
good afternoon. i am currently enrolled in a city built. i think the hospital will be a wonderful job, because we need more hospitals in our community. also, we, as san francisco residents, can come together and provide healthcare, more jobs, and a safe work environment. thank you again. if you are not on the list, you must allow the president to call those and have those people speak first. we announced that at the very beginning of this hearing that that was going to be the order. if your name has been called, you are on the list of people who have requested special accommodation or in become poor. if your name has not been called, this people come first and then it will call your name. i know your name is on the west. the west. the list. good afternoon, commissioners. i m one of several thousand residents, many of whom are seniors like myself. it is an unusual neighborhood. just a few of the major housing complexes. most residents minimize their use because of
happening that are going to have driveways. taxicabs are not going to go into those in driveways, the interior driveway. there is also no place for paratransit vans that have to wait for passengers. and the are only for managed care. many disabled are on medicare and medi-cal. we have the right to choose. august or september 2010, i requested to see somebody ought patient for that insurance and was flatly denied by cpmc. commissioner fong: thank you very much. if i called your name, come on up. have i called your name? marlena, carlito, stanley. ok? good afternoon, commissioners. my name is angelina, 81 years young. i am a senior and lived in the tenderloin for 27 years now. i am also in member of the tenderloin filipino american community organization. as a resident in the tenderloin, i have spoken several times about why we should not approve cpmc s planning of this. i have spoken several times about why we should disapprove cpmc s plan. it will not serve us. we need a ho
that cpmc will do its fair share of serving the health care needs of the low-income families in the tenderloin, based on the records, cpmc s profit was 12 times the combined annual profit of private, nonprofit hospitals. yet, their record in providing this is the lowest base of net patient revenue. [unintelligible] as a non-profit entity. we in the tenderloin are united in demanding that cpmc must do its fair share in helping the low-income residents in the tenderloin. we need real access to care. cpmc should increase affordable access to all kinds of hospital health care, especially for seniors and low-income families. cpmc must also support our community clinics so that they can provide adequate service agreements. we want cpmc to address these issues by signing a community benefits agreement that is acceptable to the community. i thank you. good afternoon. my name is tom, a seven-year resident of the tenderloin. health care is extremely important to us all, and i want to