Environmental health. Good afternoon. As acting director im pleased to present our work on phd strategic plan. We identified the need for safe and Healthy Living environments. We identified three headline indicators that you see that wu that we felt should be addressed. The first is clean air. San francisco has relatively clean air. Our location along the coast helps us greatly. Were lucky were not inland, but on page 17, the number of good air quality days average around 250 days per year. Wed like to increase that number to 365 days per year. We work with the bay area quality air management district staff to development the Community Risk Reduction Plan and identify strategies to include air quality in San Francisco. Part of our plan will be support implementation to build va tee jik strategies. Also we know that there are areas of San Francisco where air quality [inaudible] most of those areas are along the main transportation routes like along the freeways or the busy streets like
That we felt should be addressed. The first is clean air. San francisco has relatively clean air. Our location along the coast helps us greatly. Were lucky were not inland, but on page 17, the number of good air quality days average around 250 days per year. Wed like to increase that number to 365 days per year. We work with the bay area quality air management district staff to development the Community Risk Reduction Plan and identify strategies to include air quality in San Francisco. Part of our plan will be support implementation to build va tee jik strategies. Also we know that there are areas of San Francisco where air quality [inaudible] most of those areas are along the main transportation routes like along the freeways or the busy streets like geary or van ness. We have been enforcing artd kl 58 to make sure residential buildings to install filters breathing in those particulates from the vehicles. We have process of improving article 38 through a new ordinance and amendment.
What percentage of our revenue comes from people paying this rate . I should have known you were going to ask that and had it on hand. Of our and dont stick me to this number, but its a ballpark of our patient charges, not our entire budget, but of our patient revenues, i believe it is about a quarter to 30 comes from of our total revenue comes from commercially insured services at General Hospital. Although, if you look at the fraction of actual accounts, its much smaller than that so its in the Single Digits in terms of the percentage of accounts, but its a large portion of our revenue, but this is really a financial driver for us, it allows us to bring in rates from those privately insured accounts at the hospital that thereby help fill the gap on our uninsured patients and some of our lower paying Safety Network that we do for those patients. I can provide the exact numbers to the outline. Yes. Commissioner [inaudible]. How close does this bring us now to the Industry Standard . I
Healthy people, healthy places, diseases and disasters. The things i want to call out to you is we have a new office of equity and Quality Improvement and the other one i want to point out to you is the center for learning and innovation. Those are two areas that are innovative and new and you will not find in most health departments. Its going to be these six high Priority Areas for our whole di viks, but theyre cross cutting, but they crossed into the network and into the community. We do 100 things, but were saying as a division, as the health department, were going to focus on these six areas. The first three come from the Community Health Improvement Plan and what im going to do is read those, im going to name the speakers all at once and then theyll come up one in a row. I wont come back and introduce them. So for the insurance, safe and Healthy Living environment, well have richard leaf, director of the Environmental Health branch, increase Healthy Eating and physical activity.