To provide adequate resources to professionals on the ground. We must also continue pressing for comprehensive Immigration Reform so that our system will not be so overwhelmed in times like these. I yield the obama told reporters he urged perry to press texas lawmakers and the u. S. Congress to support the whitehouses funding request. The president rejected criticism saying he didnt visit the border saying quote this isnt a theater. This is a problem. The head of the ncaa is questioned about the treatment of College Athletes and the profits generated from sports. That is next. Then a look at the Russia Ukraine conflict. And later a ceremony for a former swiss diplomat who is awarded the congressional gold medal for his humanitarian efforts during world war ii. Tune in for the harlem book fair this weekend. Live coverage starts this weekend saturday morning. Mark emmert testified about College Athletes and academics and he is joined by Taylor Branch and two formal College Football playe
Of these neighborhoods language other than english spoken at home and foreign born are on par with the diversity across the city. South of market residents also experience disparitys in health care and crime, so the graph on the left shows preventible emergency room visits. This is often an indicator of limited access to primary care. The theory being if you had access to primary care you would avoid San Francisco General Hospital visits and you can see in the south of. Market here and the identified in this area there are far higher rates of preventible emergency room visits among the population there. Crime is also another one of the indicators that is part of the recommendation and guidelines and you can see that in the Southern District station that includes the south of market area the rate of Violent Crimes far exceeds that anywhere across the city. And this is just another snapshot of a few Health Indicators to indicate Health Disparities exist for these populations. The emergen
Talk about it. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the board of supervisors San Francisco budget finance subcommittee for wednesday, april 9, 2014. My name is march farrell im joined by vice chair supervisor mar and supervisor avalos i want to thank the staff for covering this meeting and clerk linda wong and madam clerk, any announcements . Phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room and this agenda will appear on the next meeting. Item one is a resolution thats needed for the agencies to a participate in the 2014 annual joint fundraising for the joint city and county of San Francisco. I believe we have joan her good morning. Im joan the applicants made their applications to the board of supervisors our office reviewed them and found them in compliance that the codes. Noblas report is there any further Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can i
For consistency determination. The Planning Department they submit to the Planning Department staff. Planning looks at it and makes sure they meet the requirements for the project. Do they meet the size threshold . Are they changing medical use . If they do they forward that application to the Health Department and the third step in the process is the Health Department reviews the application and the accompanying justification to determine whether it is or isnt consistent with the master plan. When we brought the master plan to you for your review and endorsement you asked us to deal with the three different types of determinations in this way, so consistent applications, those that are plain consistent will be presented to the Health Commission as an informational item and forwarded to the Planning Department so the department of Public Healths recommendation would stand and you would be informed of our recommendation and finding. For those consistent and recommended for incentives ho
We used to ask these questions and i am wondering some of the questions were asked and some werent. To give context on the contract were talking about and if bill is here unfortunately hes not here at the moment. Let me try and anyone else can jump in. So we are moving in the general the new General Hospital in about two years. In a Perfect World we would have also used as an opportunity five years ago lets get a state of the art medical system in the San Francisco General Hospital then and its unclear to me whether siemens would have been a candidate for being that vendor or not. I think its up in the air but most talk about two other vendors when we ask them, but that decision wasnt made so we have the practical reality when we move into the San Francisco General Hospital we need to have Electronic Medical records and the reality is we just need to move the siemens system over there and that is what this contract is basically to do, and that is a non trivial exercise, but in addition