This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment, mitigation, and treatment. This is the third hearing that im chairing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conc
The february 4, 2020 minutes. Commissioners, after review, does anyone have a motion to approve . Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor . Okay. Clerk thank you. There are no Public Comment requests for that item. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Gra grant colfax, director of health. You have the report in front of you. Just a couple of things. One is we are continuing our covid19 preparations and actions. Ive asked dr. Aragon to provide more details after my report, so he will be doing that in just a minute. We are continuing with our ongoing daily work, and that includes Behavioral Health options for people in the city as part of our Behavioral Health reform as part of health s. F. We are currently establishing a health center, to be established at 180 jones, with a particular focus on methamphetamine users. This will have a 15bed capacity, take care of many more than that over a 24hour period. This is really the beginning of a larger expansion if
The other water flooding out possibly that could be drained back, pumped back up. I dont know what that is going to do. We have ground water and no explanation as to what is going to happen to the existing ground water. There is one final point. I think that we can possibly look at saving the nation. It that a big answer and a lot of people are looking at. When i went to p. U. C. , they use estuary water, not oceanside water which has a lot more brine. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, it is closed. Item 11. Public comment . Seeing none, new business is closed. Item 12 new business setting. Any Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Item 13 communications. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Item 14. Adjournment. So moved. Second. Those in favor. Aye. So moved. Thank you very much. Sfgovtv sfg. The San Francisco Health Commission is called to order. I will call roll. [roll call] clerk the second item on the agenda is the a
There are no Public Comment requests for that item. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Gra grant colfax, director of health. You have the repot in front of you. Just a couple of things. One is we are continuing our covid19 preparations and actions. Ive asked dr. Aragon to provide more details after my report, so he will be doing that in just a minute. We are continuing with our ongoing daily work, and that includes Behavioral Health options for people in the city as part of our Behavioral Health reform as part of health s. F. We are currently establishing a health center, to be established at 180 jones, with a particular focus on methamphetamine users. This will have a 15bed capacity, take care of many more than that over a 24hour period. This is really the beginning of a larger expansion if this initial phase is successful at providing more lowbarrier opportunities for people to have a place that is safe, that provides Harm Reduction approaches and also not
Able at some point to give us some data about points of entry, which are more successful, whether expanding hours makes a difference, you know, in terms of zip codes and things like that . Also, the other thing i think wed be interested in is working compliance, whats working and has the least chance of recidivism. I think 95 of our high risk homeless and mental patients are alcohol, not necessarily drugs or maybe a combination, and also im wondering how that works in the system. Yeah, we can provide that because we work very close with healthright 360, and they have the Drug Management services. With their Drug Management is mostly alcohol, but then, we are expanding services in the pharmacy to provide medication, and also, the telebupe that we are providing. And also, healthright 360 is a close partner that we can collect some data. Also, this is a pilot that we are studying . Maybe in six months we can come back and give you some preliminary data that we have. I think also i know ph