Also. They strongly urged cpmc to engage in Community Dialogue with neighborhoods around the community. Director garcia and i met with cpmc staff to talk about plans for committee engagement, made recommendation about how to go about doing that. Plan for a Broader Community pleating. I meeting. That group gave good and strong and honest feedback to cpmc about the history they had with the community and input the Community Wants Going Forwards and the proper acnobbling of the communities role in discussion related to saint lukes and so my understanding is that cpmc designs a meeting around that if you continue to keep my office and i have speaken to director garcia and sthais priority for her and us and want to continue to work with you ask the Community Around that process. I have one more question for the department and then wanted to ask cpmc as well and give them a opportunity to come up and turn it over to supervisor mar and supervisor christensen or anyone else who wants to speak
Appreciate his leadership. Doctor browner, the floor is yours again i do want to correct a couple misimpression about the saint lukes diabetes clinic and also our role in engaging with the medical staff. I meet with the medical staff monthly. I will meet with them at the conclusion of this meeting and sure well talk about the diabetes clinic. 70 percent of those patients seft identify at english as the language, 30 percent is spanish. Of the 3 providers 2 are bilingual [inaudible] of the visiting providers they are about 70 percent bilingual and spanish so it is not true we are not providing bilingual services to patients who need them and it is true the quality of the care we provide is first rate and invite you to come down and see that first hand. We are extremely proud of how we are doing to help patient manage gestational and other forms of dediabetes. We knhimented to look at cultural and lick wisticly appropriate services. As i think you real aiz, those standards are not as spin
Of the community to advocate for them and also to provide care for everyone including those without the ability to pay. In this slide here i also showed to the hospital, we take care of a pretty high population together of medicare and med cal patients. As i mentioned, about half of our patients are med cal patients. At this point, i will turn it over to abby who will share a bit of the community bents that we provide. Good afternoon commissioners. As you know st. Marys is long standing provider of Community Benefits in San Francisco. This was what was reported in fiscal year 14. Youll see this again shortly. Closure of the skilled nursely facility at st. Marys as i think you understand has been a long arduous and a discerned commission on the part of st. Marys and sisters of mercy. Skilled nursing unit at st. Marys is short term acute unit that provides physical rehab and rehabilitative care. Many hospitals across the United States pulled Skilled Nursing units within the four walls in
Highest unemployment rates selected there is a spread of different members from different neighborhoodss but for the tenderloin which was one hire in china town and zero hires of thedalitya we have. In the future there will be more representative spread of how people are hiredwill outreach be done differently to target the neighborhood that are doing more poorly than the first year data shows . We are reaching out to all neighborhoods and having regular job fairs and im optimistic we can do better in those neighborhoods. The commitment is there. The other neighborhood we medicationed wree more successful in. I have to give credit to the local agencies in the neighborhood that have done a good job of helping us this may be to your staff and also from [inaudible] oawd. Do we keep information on retention rates as people are hired and if they continue on . I think that would be useful. There is hiring recruiting and hiring is one thing and retaining them. How do we insure there is good re