Director of prime care for Homeless Services and urban higher or speaks louder you still cant hear me. Okay. Ive joseph with urban house thank you for coming distinguished gifts and staff and Community Partners and many, many other wlor here today. I cant believe were here and its so great to share this exist day with you and this exciting new chapter in Homeless Services and a principle care for our most Vulnerable Co citizens of San Francisco. Im very happy to have you all here. Ill make a Quick Program note there is a little reversible in the order just bear with us if it looks like the order is out of order. I wanted to color to the mike okay. I want to acknowledge what a shift this is what this day represents for us as a city as a Health Department and a clinic especially a clinic two clinics that came together to become one. Two clinics that were flagship clinics to provide high quality care and advocacy for our vulnerable residents. Weve been innovator long before some of you sa
Has become the Urgent Health services a very, very long time even before the Homeless Program and it continues to take care of those who need the care. I think tourists still come to tom when they need help base wear written up in tour guides. We continue to a provided exemplar dental services for those who are fengd that hiv and we continue to a have this beautiful space downstairs have a strong commitment to provide services in your offer 15 community sites. We have a wonderful office space o pet Treatment Program that brings recovery right into the preliminary care setting pr we are ahead of the curtain with Community Based primary care hepatitis care treatment and ahead of the hiv care and we co run a center of the obsolesce in the tenderloin. Through josh about 12 years ago we started or josh started the first Medication Adherence Program for people who are homeless or mentally ill and many people were written off because they were thought two disorganized to manage it and we said
Single way of doing things. Its been challenging but the San Francisco staff has shown they can do anything to come together to create this incredible clip. Ive said about being incredible in the way they provide care to the homeless they have the best practice and thats whats been brought together not only is the practice being brought together but its a one stop care for Homeless People it has housing and primary care and Community Programs so its a one stop location and we will get a better outcome for homeless patients in San Francisco. I wanted to thank t n b c theyre great partners and because of them working with us thats why we have the great clinic that we have. Tom railway dell we have 12 clinics throughout though city and this helps homeless but just to have the sensibility and vision and commitment on how to help clients and we need Health Care Reform and this will help house to manager the care of people who have complicated Health Issues so today is a really, really great
Be here. The clinic is part of a much larger project. Whos auditorium were sitting in the t nc is the owner and operator and in addition to the clinic the residential portion of the building houses 1 hundred and 72 formerly homeless tenants all referred by d c h. clapping and the building has a gym its auditorium and art grammatically gallery. Noortd 40u789s i am into this building im struck. This project is about partnerships. Its a partnership between t n b c and t h and partnership between health care and housing between the physical space and the activities and the lights that happens inside and its a partnership between this building and the community that surrounds us. On all those levels this is an exceptional project. T n d c has long enjoyed a relationship. Just imagine user on a lay over for 6 years you can illness how closer urging to come so here we are 6 years later and weve learned a lot about each other and our the strength of our relationship as endursz and deepens. Sin
Were trying to lure Office Development south of market but Offering Development rights nobody has talked about that concept in a long time more recently ive made the objection that bicycles are part of our world to Developers Need to consider bicycle parking in residential and office structures it is rapidly bam more than that thats not a fad its going away but very much a part of urban culture and planning for bicycles and Pedestrian Safety is a part of our streetscapes and very much part of what our departments are dealing with we see evidences of the continuing changes around us some of them happening far more quickly and its a very petty environment but mary pointed out it brings a number of fundamental questions primary among those is how do we meet the Housing Needs of an economically diverse population and maintain it with the diverse population and accommodate new ways even if doing business airbnb, lift uber who knows whats next in terms of new registration and a w where do we