By saying aye. Thank you, commissioners. There is no Public Comment request for that item. And if anyone does have Public Comment request, i am the person to see. Hand me the forms. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Grant colfax, director of health. You have your directors report in front of you. I wanted to highlight a few issue, and i think the major issue that i wanted to highlight today was, as you know, we have had major patient care incidents at laguna honda hospital, and june 18 i was joined by my yor breed and the president of the board of supervisors yee to report directly to the public and to the community about patient abuses about patient abuse issues involving 23 laguna honda residents. This misconduct does not represent who we are as the Health Department and as the San Francisco Health Network, and it will not be tolerated. Laguna honda has had a positive effect on the live of generation of san franciscans and continues to be a good place for
They do not anticipate labor force changes. The nurse wills continue to be employed by the hospital if they are general surgery trained. The current surgeon wills continue to practice at other area hospitals. The an thesology Group Service wills continue to be provided for other surgical procedures st. Marys. And golden gate profusion wont be providing the services at st. Marys anymore, but they have contracts with other area hospitals as well. So in conclusion, despite st. Marys low surgical volume and a general trend in having min cally invasive technology, San Francisco has a growing older Adult Population and Cardiovascular Services will be increasingly more important. And, accumulation with the residual impacts like i said before of the closure and that the complexity of patients able to be seen by the remaining cardiologists at st. Marys may be impacted. And then finally, there will be an average of, as we said, at least 35 Cardiovascular Surgery patients annually who will no lon
Do we have a second . A second. An all those in favor signify by saying aye. Thank you, commissioners. There is no Public Comment request for that item. And if anyone does have Public Comment request, i am the person to see. Hand me the forms. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Grant colfax, director of health. You have your directors report in front of you. I wanted to highlight a few issue, and i think the major issue that i wanted to highlight today was, as you know, we have had major patient care incidents at laguna honda hospital, and june 18 i was joined by my yor breed and the president of the board of supervisors yee to report directly to the public and to the community about patient abuses about patient abuse issues involving 23 laguna honda residents. This misconduct does not represent who we are as the Health Department and as the San Francisco Health Network, and it will not be tolerated. Laguna honda has had a positive effect on the live of gene
Spplus, a major freeway in the east bay is shut down this morning. Well have details on why and how long that closure is expected to last from ktvu. Fox twounews this is mornings on two. And good morning to you. Welcome to mornings on two. On this saturday march 16th im Claudine Wong and im Christien Kafton. Great to be here this morning having you here i always love working with you guys. This is always a fun time. And you brought good weather with you yesterday was unbelievable. Unbelievable. Rosemary i went to go pick up my son yesterday at baseball and it was like summer weather. We were all saying, we need to have coolers out chairs. I mean, it catches you off guard just a little bit in San Francisco. Nice. Its going to be gorgeous for the Saint Patricks day parade today. We do have the nice weather continuing. Not quite as warm,ubut we lost the wind, which is a good thing. Heres a look over San Francisco as well. Take a look at that beautiful golden sky. We have a just about 12 h
Been rising and we will continue to see loss of life. The death toll rises after devastating wildfires rage across the island of maui with no estimate on how many people are still missing. It is all right now on the afternoon edition. Good afternoon. Im elizabeth cook. 55 people are confirmed dead and Dozens Injured from that catastrophic wildfire that was scorching maui. The wildfires that began earlier in the week closer to being contained. This, after winds by Hurricane Dora on tuesday fanned the flames. According to the maui county mayor, one of those fires destroy the Historic Town of lahaina with residents there saying it, quote, looked like it was raining fire. President biden freeing up federal assistance by approving a disaster declaration for hawaii. Anyone who has lost a loved one, whose home has been damaged or destroyed will get help immediately. I have directed that we send support to these very firefighters and First Responders and Emergency Personnel who are working rou