Someone that is predisposed and it was useful in guiding them as were going ongoing through the epidemic i was wondering an opportunity to learn how the department handles communications. Im a little bit concerned. But cnn and fox and everybody the headlines by far most serious than ebola what is the role we think your department in terms of corrective communications or an updated accommodations the facts are the best way to get things out i find it effective as well as perhaps meeting some of the conditions of the Latino Community who is traveling back and forth and may have higher concerns. Right for the Latino Community that is actually a lot of dlament and intensive communication from the Health Organization theyve been good about getting out the information in english and spanish we agree were actively the process of redesigning how to communicate with the physicians at the city level we have a new vendor that is working on Emergency Communications for the city fast and were going
General Public Safety health bond and to forward it out as Committee Reports to hear them have them forwarded for tomorrows board of supervisors full board and if you could call items one and 1. Item 1, ordinance calling and providing for a accept election to be held in the city and county of San Francisco on tuesday, june 7, 2016 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur the following bonded debt of the city and county of San Francisco. To finance the [stkroupbgs ], acquisition improvement seismic facilities and related costs to be paid out of ordinary annual income and revenue of the city and county and will indebtness. Thank you, madame clerk. First of all, supervisor yee, could we entertain a motion to excuse supervisor tang from todays meet i will make the molestation. Take that out objection [ gavel ] mr. Strong and ms. Garcia are here i dont know that we have any questions. If there is no formal presentation, why dont we potentially hold of
Palka has been checking into how road crews are preparing. Shes live in Virginia Beach. Liz . We are in Virginia Beach where public works trucks are in their place. Plenty of work is going on behindthe scenes. A public works Spokesman Says crews have their assignments and they are watching to see what the weather does. In norfolk, crews are pretreating bridges and primary roads today. That will continue through the morning. The same is happening on the interstate. Vdot crews started pretreating the southside and peninsula roadways this morning. They say they want to make sure the evening commute tomorrow is a safe one. And in northeast North Carolina ncdot is getting ready to. Crews started applying brine in camden and Pasquotank County treating the highways ahead of the snow. Based on the timing, it evening commute. Vdot is focusing on southside and peninsula watch conditions through the weekend. Vdot says take your time if you have to be plenty of braking distance. Out, and give your
His medical records show the va did not send his information to the private company that administers the Choice Program until november 25. Nearly a month later. How long did it take you from the time you were told you qualified for choice to actually see the specialist you needed to see . 60 days. Exactly 60 days. I had to complain loudly and call my congressman i had to shout from the rooftops that i was being flat out ignored. Jim bancroft waited a yearandahalf before he was referred to the Choice Program. Literally took an action from my congressman to see a doctor for any of this. That is unacceptable. That is not healthcare. That is a complete neglect and it has nothing to do with my veteran status. It has to do with neglect of a patient. When he got a referral to a physician to treat his medical problem the provider told him he could not be treated for some issues because the Choice Program had not been paying its health net the company contracted to administer the Choice Program
Tricia neuman. I wanted to let everybody know that you can tweet with us live with this event. You can tweet your questions. You may tweet your comments. For both the people in the room and also those who are joining us live on cspan. The hash tag is medicare demos. If you would like to access our speaker presentations and you are not in the room with us, you can find them on our website at w www. Allhealth. Org. Im going to turn this over now to our partner Tricia Neuman who will tell us more about why were here today. Thank you, marilyn. Its great to be here. Before we get started, i just want to congratulate you, marilyn, and sarah dash, wherever you may be, for taking over the helm of the alliance. We miss ed, but its great to see you both new coceos. So welcome. Of course, you have been here for a while. I want to thank all of you for coming here today on behalf of the Kaiser Family foundation. Im excited to be here. I think were going to all learn quite a bit. As we focus on the