Bidwell was born in upstate new york in 1819, and his family moved around. They were frontier homesteaders and then they moved from new york into pennsylvania and then ohio. And then in his early 20s bidwell left his family and had about to what was then the front tier in iowa and missouri. He tried developing a claim in westerwestern missouri and gaven that after just a year or two. And decide to head to california, which was then still mexican territory. He helped organize what became known as the bidwell bartleson party, and again, great claim to fame is the first party of overland tours to california. Bidwell like a lot of early american got his first job working for john sutter at sutter scored. And there hes learned firsthand californias rich potential asset Agricultural Producer and as a place to raise livestock. Sutter had herds of cattle and large wheatfields, and bidwell went to work for sutter and kind of got some good onthejob training for what would later become his own op
Approval with possible modifications of the meeting set forth below, regular meeting of april 14, tweplt 16. I move to approve. Theres been a motion to approve the minutes. Second. And its been properly seconded. Any comments from any of the commissioners . Is there any Public Comment . Seeing no Public Comment, we are now ready to vote. All those in favor signify by saying aye. All those opposed . Motion is carried unanimously. Item 2, general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction not appearing on todays agenda. Is there any general Public Comment on matters not i stress not appearing on the agenda . Seeing no Public Comment, we will now proceed. I am going to claim the privilege of the chair and move the president s report from its regular order to now. There are a couple things that i want to say and i thought that would be the appropriate forum and if i waited until after the next regular agenda item, they would be superfluous. For some of you they may be superfl
The motion to accept the minutes are in order. Commissioner pating you want to make that make a motion to approve. That will be with his comments. Is there a second . Second. Are there further additions or corrections to the minutes . Were ready for approval. Those in favor say aye. Aye. The minutes have been adopted. Our next item please. Item three is directors report. Im looking for my questions under the director report. I will not be discussing any items. The directors report is before you. I guess ill ask only on the humming bird place and exactly how does it function. People go themselves or they are referred by agencies or officers or what . Were looking for referrals that can be the Homeless Outreach team from psych inpatient. Its a true driven model. We do have over the much of the staff appears. Its a day program. The Navigation Center just open end. We had two individuals we thought there were 50 people that day. Two individuals who we thought might do better in a more calm
Rehabilitative care. Many hospitals across the United States pulled Skilled Nursing units within the four walls in their hospital. That has been the experience at st. Marys as well. The expenses for the required Hospital Based Services to the Skilled Nursing unit is about 2 million on a direct cost bases. Thats not charges. Thats not including the overhead. As i said the leadership did a valued based decision which is where multiple stakeholders are called into the room to have a very deep thoughtful discussion based on values not necessarily on finances but on the values of the hospital and what the closure means to the hospital in the community and it was a unanimous decision that this was a necessary step it take. So the plans are under way to close the unit on the 21st of june. The unit is budgeted on a historical average. Its capped because of the budget. In private healthcare most budgets are set based on historical averages. This unit is running average daily census about 70 pat
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