Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. We begin tonight with syria, where the Extremist Militant Group isis has increased its control in parts of that country and in neighboring iraq. The Syrian Government continues to battle the militants, who have taken control of three military bases in recent weeks. Late this week, the government sent in reinforcements to maintain control of the tabqa air base in eastern syria, the governments last stronghold in the region. After isis released a video on tuesday showing the beheading of american journalist james foley, the Obama Administration announced that it is reconsidering i
You this exchange illustrates the issues the task force struggled with and the reason they focused on these concrete recommendations for example calling on cms, the model, not to scale hennepin to model hennepinlike examples so that we can in a deliberate fashion uncover this Common Element that needs to be there and the models that can be tested and proved. We can scale in a way it is almost as if hennepin is priming the pump, giving us a little bit of an example. What are the mechanisms and tools that we have for access like, for example, innovation grant awards, etc. , that can help us responsibly understand the attributes of a new model moving forward . I want to get to our audience questions. If anybody has a burning additional comment about the conversation we have been having yes. Only to mention that in passing that a previous study we put out a year ago called training doctors were preventionoriented care, we havent talked about that too much, either, but it was headed by dan
Public comment on anything that is not in the regular agenda, do we have Public Comment . Good evening commissioners thank you so much for having me unexpectedly this evening, i know a couple of you commissioner akers and hide, and my name is Stephanie Ashley and i am the director of the saint James Infirmry to tell you know about an event that is coming up on june 5th is the 15 anniversary of saint james and it is the first Occupational Health and safety clinic by and for the Sex Worker Community in the nation. So, every five years, we have a major fundraiser to celebrate our existence, and we are having our biggest one yet this thursday at temple nightclub and i see Dave Peterson here from temple, and they have been very generous and helpful in getting this party off the ground. And it is going to be a great night and we are going to have some celebrity djs including david harness and ricky sins and we are going to have a dungin and the former lefty ladies and i am going to have a ph
Commissioner al perez. Here. Commissioner akers. Here. Camp angoli. Here. And hyde. And we got an email from president tan who said that he will not be here this evening. Public comment on anything that is not in the regular agenda, do we have Public Comment . Good evening commissioners thank you so much for having me unexpectedly this evening, i know a couple of you commissioner akers and hide, and my name is Stephanie Ashley and i am the director of the saint James Infirmry to tell you know about an event that is coming up on june 5th is the 15 anniversary of saint james and it is the first Occupational Health and safety clinic by and for the Sex Worker Community in the nation. So, every five years, we have a major fundraiser to celebrate our existence, and we are having our biggest one yet this thursday at temple nightclub and i see Dave Peterson here from temple, and they have been very generous and helpful in getting this party off the ground. And it is going to be a great night a
We have on the expenditure side we are living within budget. Youll see that we have a projected 16. 6 million favorable variance in salary and Fringe Benefits so were coming in below budget by 16. 6 millions. That is due to a couple of things. We have a couple units that are under their budgeted agent census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commissioner meetings and its also come up extensively in our meetings with our Nursing Union as weve talked about their contract. We have despite the salary savings, that is not coming from our inability to fill our clinical positions, although that is a very serious issue for us. We have about 80 nursing positions at San Francisco general that are unfilled and we are working overtime to fill those positions, however, from a financial perspective we are back filling those shifts with per diem and reg