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And i think that that is something that as a city and we as a Health Department with be proud of because we are leading the way for good and really appropriate transgender healthcare and with that i actually have a question. And it is really about the role map that that you have mentioned at the end. And the providers of the surgeries and i believe that there are some conversations happening before, and at ucsf which is teaching institute. And so, creating a center of excellence through this partnership. I think that is a great question and i think that the workers working on this, and includes carlisle and the chiefs at San Francisco general in plastic surgery, and urology and obgyn as well as the . The first words is that this should be a center of excellence for transgender care in our system. And i think that it is way essential that we are working with the high degree of medical expertise at ucsf. And i dont need to be the first one to say that a large Academic Medical Institution
And i think that that is something that as a city and we as a Health Department with be proud of because we are leading the way for good and really appropriate transgender healthcare and with that i actually have a question. And it is really about the role map that that you have mentioned at the end. And the providers of the surgeries and i believe that there are some conversations happening before, and at ucsf which is teaching institute. And so, creating a center of excellence through this partnership. I think that is a great question and i think that the workers working on this, and includes carlisle and the chiefs at San Francisco general in plastic surgery, and urology and obgyn as well as the . The first words is that this should be a center of excellence for transgender care in our system. And i think that it is way essential that we are working with the high degree of medical expertise at ucsf. And i dont need to be the first one to say that a large Academic Medical Institution
You have obviously the costly it is. So i would encourage you to really think this true, and possibly under the umbrella of the department. And i greatly appreciate that is in the alignment on it and it is in alignment with the chiefs that i have spoken to at San Francisco general great. Commissioner taylormcghee . Thank you. And clearly there was a paradigm shift in 2010 when medical cited that transgender surgery or sexual reassignment surgeries were medically necessary. So obviously that obviously helps to pave the way particularly that it relevant you lated the insurance commissioner and the Healthcare Plan has been medically necessary, i am wondering is that still a challenge for you as you look at Additional Resources to make sure that you have it. And i asked this question because this is a great model as we look at other healthcare challenges within the Healthcare System in terms of looking at looking at holistically and being necessary for the health and i am curious as to whe
Those criteria as evidence based and sensible as they could be. We have developed guidelines and trainings that we have been rolling out across the Healthcare Centers both the dph and the Health Centers and the jail Health Service and to help and providers understand what our criteria are and how do we access those services. And we are currently developing a and we will start this week, our first series of education and preparation sessions for the patients who are planning on under going transgender surgery within our system and specifically four, threehour sessions that we have developed in collaboration with the center to make sure that the special challenges that are faced by our Public Health patients, who are resource poor, that they are getting the same education and preparation in fact, we would like to think that i. And more effective and education and preparation, than patients who might have the means to pay for these surgeries on their own. And so we are very excited about