Lets maouts our microphones unless were talking. Hi, even. My name is mark morowitz, the Health Commission secretary. Im going to flash the side again to explain how to make Public Comment. The phone number is 8883634734. And the access code is 2241350. Once youre on that line, you will be able to listen in on the meeting and when you want to make Public Comment, you press 1 and 0 in order yes, 10 in order to get on to the line for a specific item. For those of you who are watching on sfgov tv, a reminder that there is a delay on what youre seing from what the live meeting is. So, i encourage you to get on the Public Comment line one item before you intend to speak so that youre on in time. That way there will be no timing issues. And, again, we apologize profusely for the issues at the last meeting. Commissioners, is it ok to go on to the next item, item 2, the minutes . Thank you, mark. If commissioners have had the opportunity to review the minutes, without does anyone have any revi
World Health Organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3. 12 . But right now in the u. S. , its about 20 . This comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u. S. Last week was the deadliest sent on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but its sort of 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday. And over 4500 people died on friday alone. Last night we closed in on 39,000 deaths and thats more than the number of people who died in the korean war. For weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms cant get tested. Well now we have new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u. S. Karen caifa has more. President trump says a few states are ready to ope businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. The virus has passed its peak. The president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopen
School are removing the plants and animals from the school. It may well go past this week due to the chemicals discovered in the ground water. We are exercising extreme caution here because some testing that we did on an unrelated matter that turned up what is called tce. It is a chemical used for metal processing. It was discovered last friday while tests were being conducted near football field on an unrelated matter. The concern is that it is vaporizing and creating a health hard for students and staff inside the school. According to local and state officials, there are several sites that could be the source of the tce. The most likely is an old plant, lane metal finishers. A few hundred feet away. Thats a major concern. Her daughter is a senior there. This is quite disruptive for all the students. It is just the latest scare for the community in and around the school. Over the years, testing has found high levels of lead around the school. It was found in the water from dated metal
This is a big need is the longterm programs, a step down and where are people going to. At prc baker places, we have three different types of programs. The first is the assisted Living Program and this is Mental Health driven. You have to have a Mental Health diagnosis but doesnt many you dont have Substance Use. Many are doing the same thing, many are cooccurring disorders. We have our baker supported living disorder. This is another set of coop units and 34 clients are living with positive diagnosis and a Substance Abuse diagnosis and Mental Health diagnosis. These are the hoops to jump through. How do we get to where the open beds are . So, for example, what was happening in the Residential Programs, people would relapse and go out and use drugs or alcohol. One of the options at that point is to say, we might have to discharge you. The olden days, in the past, has been, well have to discharge you and here is a list of shelter, the emergency room and if you have trouble, please call
You mentioned the fact that there are times when you cant address the need right away and part of the waiting time is because you cant draw down the reimbursement dollars. Uhhuh. I know i was looking at the slide in what areas of need, but it seems like when you cant help some participants, its due to cost reimbursement and not necessarily due to capacity. So would you say a gap funding or some way to eliminate their wait time to able to help a patient right away is important for addressing the need immediately . Yes. I mean, i think in general, we have come to understand the managed care system that is drug medical, and you think the county has been a learning process. We know that somebody will be eligible. We would like to put them in a bed and we will work out the funding after the fact. And yeah one think that would be helpful. Thank you. I dont want to oversell it. There are times when there are other barriers. Like, if a person has a Health Condition thats not been taken care of