Right now is like in a mourning state because of the fact of the closure and our patients is our pride and our joy. Its not just a job. And what our concern is is that say like for you and i, its easy for us to get up and relocate and deal with new faces. With our clients its not like that. It can be devastating and can even lead into death possibility, which we pray not, but this is our concern. Our clients have very challenging behaviors that we understand and our first step or recourse is not to medicate. We know how to interact or defuse their behavior and not allow them to get hurt and protect them. Everything that is very, very difficult for a Family Member to do, you need a team like the irene swindel center. We hope the board can review the track record of the center, which we were one of the leading models of the residential facility in the northern california. We had other facilities sending their clients to us. When they came to us, there was a drastic improvement in ways th
Hi everyone on the board. Im one of the caregivers that has been at the irene swindel alzheimers unit since it opened and we have several coworkers here. We wanted to express to the board that the whole department right now is like in a mourning state because of the fact of the closure and our patients is our pride and our joy. Its not just a job. And what our concern is is that say like for you and i, its easy for us to get up and relocate and deal with new faces. With our clients its not like that. It can be devastating and can even lead into death possibility, which we pray not, but this is our concern. Our clients have very challenging behaviors that we understand and our first step or recourse is not to medicate. We know how to interact or defuse their behavior and not allow them to get hurt and protect them. Everything that is very, very difficult for a Family Member to do, you need a team like the irene swindel center. We hope the board can review the track record of the center,
Alzheimers unit since it opened and we have several coworkers here. We wanted to express to the board that the whole department right now is like in a mourning state because of the fact of the closure and our patients is our pride and our joy. Its not just a job. And what our concern is is that say like for you and i, its easy for us to get up and relocate and deal with new faces. With our clients its not like that. It can be devastating and can even lead into death possibility, which we pray not, but this is our concern. Our clients have very challenging behaviors that we understand and our first step or recourse is not to medicate. We know how to interact or defuse their behavior and not allow them to get hurt and protect them. Everything that is very, very difficult for a Family Member to do, you need a team like the irene swindel center. We hope the board can review the track record of the center, which we were one of the leading models of the residential facility in the northern c
Good afternoon the commission will control to order and the secretary will call the roll. Commissioner chow. Present. Commissioner loyce. Present. Commissioner sanchez. Present. Commissioner pating. Present. Approval of the minutes of january 3rd, 2017. The minutes are before you for approval. I heard a motion for approval. Is there a second, please . Second. Are there any corrections . I would like to make one correction, if i could . First i would in the page 5, after the formal report of the director, then i would have a space in between for after the item on the faces for the future, and as you do, you have a paragraph, but it looks like it belongs to the previous topic and i think i might put in there a topic called the tom waddell incident. Or something . Yes. I see, commissioner. I can add a line, too, so it breaks up the space. If you could do that . Then under the last page, page 8, i think the intent that commissioner singer was reporting on item 11, which was the sf general
First i would in the page 5, after the formal report of the director, then i would have a space in between for after the item on the faces for the future, and as you do, you have a paragraph, but it looks like it belongs to the previous topic and i think i might put in there a topic called the tom waddell incident. Or something . Yes. I see, commissioner. I can add a line, too, so it breaks up the space. If you could do that . Then under the last page, page 8, i think the intent that commissioner singer was reporting on item 11, which was the sf general joint Conference Committee report was that they deferred the medical staff report action items, because it was felt there should be a physician to review the medically oriented rather than myself being specifically mentioned there. Oh, sure, im happy to make that change. The issue there being that there were medicallyoriented issues, but no physicians at that time on the j cc from the commission. So i think that would be clearer. Those