Being late. The days take on a life of their own. So, but i wanted to say good morning. Good morning, dr. Collins, welcome back to labor hhs to the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say a thank you on behalf of the of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work. We met with the researchers who were working to cure Sickle Cell Disease, to develop treatments for major depression, the shrinkage of cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials. So it was a moving and an informative, but a very moving experience, as well. Let me welcome our witnesses including the five institute and Center Directors who join us today, and in addition, and always a great addition dr. Francis collins who has joined us many times, director of the National Institutes of health. Today joined by dr. Bruce tromberg, by the institut
The sfgov tv. Maybe we could fix that. Back to you, supervisor safai. Supervisor safai thank you. Were going to call up kelly here in a moment. Shell have an opportunity to speak and play out a plan. We want to allow gloria and raquel, one of the families that are currently in subacute care to come up and speak about their experiences and their conditions their sister. Then we will ask San Francisco for health care housing, jobs and Justice Coalition mark erickson, salini am i saying that right . Salini. And then from the California Nurses Association c. N. A. And then were going to ask benson nadal from the longterm Care Ombudsman Program and well open it up for Public Comment. So again i just want to end with its this is this is gutwrenching. This is heartbreaking to see the conditions, to see the individuals living and trying to survive and again this is something i have never experienced. And i understand that its it is heartwrenching to experience that type of circumstances with t
That they were going to shut down the subacute unit at st. Lukes hospital. I was a bit taken aback and i know many members of the community were as well. And so we came in that week, spoke with my colleagues supervisor ronen, whose district this actually resides in st. Lukes. But, you know, for the residents of my neighborhood, st. Lukes is a lifeline and has always been a lifeline. And will continue to a lifeline. Most recently evidenced by the fire that happen in the our district, just a week ago, where two members of our community passed away from smoke inhalation. So just want to say that this is not an easy conversation and never has been an easy conversation. But one thing that we did note, and i just want to underscore, there were human beings in these beds. And there are currently still human beings in these beds. And so we came in, we asked for an emergency hearing. We had that hearing. We were not satisfied with the answers that we got. And then we asked for a hearing under e
To order, i thank you very much and i apologize for being late. They take on a life of their own but i just want to say good morning, good morning doctor collins and welcome back. Let me just say thank you on behalf of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for the nra campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about in ages work. We met with researchers who were working to develop treatment for major depression, shrink cancer tumors. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed back Clinical Trials. So it was a moving experience as well and we welcome our witnesses, including the five director said join as today and, in addition, doctor Francis Collins as john this is many times as director of National Health, today joined by dr. Bruce, director of the National Institute of biomedical imaging and bioengineering, Helene Langevin director of the National Director of health. Doctor eliseo perezstable, director of Minority Health and the s
Maybe we could fix that. Back to you, supervisor safai. Supervisor safai thank you. Were going to call up kelly here in a moment. Shell have an opportunity to speak and play out a plan. We want to allow gloria and raquel, one of the families that are currently in subacute care to come up and speak about their experiences and their conditions their sister. Then we will ask San Francisco for health care housing, jobs and Justice Coalition mark erickson, salini am i saying that right . Salini. And then from the California Nurses Association c. N. A. And then were going to ask benson nadal from the longterm Care Ombudsman Program and well open it up for Public Comment. So again i just want to end with its this is this is gutwrenching. This is heartbreaking to see the conditions, to see the individuals living and trying to survive and again this is something i have never experienced. And i understand that its it is heartwrenching to experience that type of circumstances with the Family Memb