Initiative to address the needs of the highest utilizers of Public Health services. On the fifth of november a broad update. We are concerned about the health and wellbeing of those in San Francisco. We take our role seriously and we will continue to use our meetings as a public forum to discuss important Public Health issues. Members of the public are always invited to attend and provide input. I am mark. Health commission secretary. If you have Public Comment, please hand a slip to me. If you would consider today, there are a lot of people who feel passionately about what you are here for. As others speak, they may have different opinions than you, try to be respectful. Be silent in your show of your opinion by either doing Something Like this or this. If you like what is being said. If you dont like being said do this. Vocalizes is not respectful to the person at the podium. Please consider that. Item 2. Approval of august 20 and september 17 meetings. In front of you is slightly re
Health services. A brief review of the history includes that the facility first opened in 1996 as the Mental Health rehabilitation facility called the merf. It was then a 147 bed psychiatric Skilled Nursing facility. Then in the early 2000s as the environment in San Francisco began to shift toward the need for more lower level residential beds, in 2003 the mayor of San Francisco established a Blue Ribbon Committee for a new design for the services provided. That process resulted in 2004, thmerf moving to a three program mixed use facility consisting of a 47 bed secure and locked Mental Health Rehabilitation Center on the third floor. A 59 bed psychiatric on the second. 41 bed residential facility. In 2005 the adult residential facility was licensed by the state Community Care licensing and began receiving first admissions. That leads us to what we have today, which is again on the third floor a 47 bed merk also called institute for mental disease, locked subacute Mental Health unit. On
Find. Fine. So sorry we put you through this. This is very good conversation for us and as a city, were struggling with this retained element. And well have a lot of projects coming before us. So this is going to help us to get better at it. Thank you. Are we all set . Are we done . Were adjourned. This noting will come to order. I will call the roll. roll call . President james loyce before we get started i would like to read a statement from the commission. Thank you for attending todays meeting. There have been several articles about the property of Public Health adult residence facility. There is frustration and confusion about the past year. In response to the changes made in areas of homelessness and Behavioral Health issues in San Francisco we request the next three meeting including the following relevant items. Today we will discuss the presentation. Next meeting whole Person Care Initiative to address the needs of the highest utilizers of Public Health services. On the fifth
We could move forward to operate all 55 of the arf beds. In addition to these factors, the redevelopment of empty unused beds in the arf could be repurposed to provide additional beds for homeless clients in need of Behavioral Services by expanding the humming bird psychiatric respite program. I would like to talk about hummingbird and why its expansion is important. A background. Hummingbird first opened in 2017 with 15 beds, which as i said before were always full. Then it expanded by 14 beds in february over 2019. Those beds were the result of the beds we asked to go to suspension to use the beds for hummingbird h bird. To date it serves 500 clients. It is a primary discharge for those discharged from zucker bird San Francisco. 30 are from the psychiatric services. This is a safe place to be other than is on the streets where they are the opportunity to engage with staff and be offered services and hopefully willing to accept the services at some point. Next i will review the commun
Of management. They have been languishing in jail. When their public defender got fed up and said this is ridiculous, i cant get answers, i am going to sub the department of Public Health. All eight are in beds out of jail. Some lang winninged for 8 months. This is a scandal of the highest proportion. People are waiting in jail so desperately i ll we cant find a bed for nine months until they come to Court Everything i am angry. This is the most humane i have seen. All i have seenence i called the mayors office. We it is by our plan. We have staffing issues and blame the workers. It is not good enough. We have got to do something to get those beds up and running. We are talking about hiring 12 more workers. In two years the department of Public Health doesnt have that capacity so that mentality i ll people can get the care they need. Is that the department we are running in the city these days . I have brought copiesna i introduced when this was happening. Directs the department of Pub