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Captioning starting. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday may 17 in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove, van ness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street, entrance is provided through a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is real captioned and sign language interpreted. Please ask staff for assistance if needed. To prevent electrical interference with this rooms sound system and to respect everyone, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment period. There will be an opportunity for Public Comment at the beginning and end of the meeting, as well as after every item on todays agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes and the council will respond to your co
Nursing you have to keep that in the back of your head and it sounds like the town square is a part of that. We have to move on. Is the square a day treatment model, a step down . No, its not. Just one thing and i will answer that. My suggestion is i will have to come back and talk to you at a different time which i suggest that you not be so focused on skilled nursing. The issues are not going to be addressed in those beds. They are going to be addressed in changes and how assisted living is going to be in the future. I appreciate your focus on the concern on the shortage of beds. There is a much broader response to that. No, by the way, im involved in doing 2re7bding accrue trending across the country. Its not a day hospital model at all. Its a model in practice through us being developed and we are going to do on a membership, there will be some third party payment. So its not a medical model hospital model approach, quite the contrary. We are taking it from a much more humanistic s
That. No, by the way, im involved in doing 2re7bding accrue trending across the country. Its not a day hospital model at all. Its a model in practice through us being developed and we are going to do on a membership, there will be some third party payment. So its not a medical model hospital model approach, quite the contrary. We are taking it from a much more humanistic social services holistic approach. It sounds to me like coordinated care. The city, we dont have enough geriatric specialist to under the aging population and the different kinds of needs they have. Its great that you have coordinated care and assigned case managers to help. It sounds like a very promising model and we look forward to hearing what the results. Another example of us developing a bunch of models for people. We have a bunch to do. We are going to attack this again on december 2nd. I hope attack is a good word. Item 8 is resolution from laguna honda transportation agreement to require two medium sized tran
Model at all. Its a model in practice through us being developed and we are going to do on a membership, there will be some third party payment. So its not a medical model hospital model approach, quite the contrary. We are taking it from a much more humanistic social services holistic approach. It sounds to me like coordinated care. The city, we dont have enough geriatric specialist to under the aging population and the different kinds of needs they have. Its great that you have coordinated care and assigned case managers to help. It sounds like a very promising model and we look forward to hearing what the results. Another example of us developing a bunch of models for people. We have a bunch to do. We are going to attack this again on december 2nd. I hope attack is a good word. Item 8 is resolution from laguna honda transportation agreement to require two medium sized transit shuttle vehicles. Good afternoon. I will be quick. Im here to gain your approval for a resolution to enter i