So im justice delighted to have her join just delighted to have her join the department. So its a great announcement to make to you all today. And then i, again, i will go through the covid19 update as the next. The agenda item and i am prepared to take any questions. Clerk thank you, dr. Colfax. Commissioners, before you might have any questions. Number one, can i ask everyone except actually everyone to mute themselves except for dr. Colfax right now. I see a lot of microphones on and were hearing someone typing. So everyone would please mute yourselves. And then the Public Comment line, any Public Comment for the directors report . Lets give it one second. Im going to share the Public Comment line info real quickly. Okay. There are no questions from the public. Im going to put this line up quickly for that in case number is watching. Commissioners, if you have any questions for dr. Colfax on the directors report, please raise your hand. Commissioner chow this is dr. Chow. I cant rai
Or whatever the processes would be, for a more permanent way of making sure that hiring is really more effective as you have shown . Thank you, commissioner, for that question. Just so you know that part of what we did is that we dismantled some of the norm processees that we used in hiring. But even with that, if you looked at just the nursing, for instance, that theres some things that we did which we can keep as we go forward. And im hoping that it will also blend and lend into the rest of the type of hiring that we do. With the directive from the mayor we were able to bypass some of the Civil Service rule processes in terms of hiring. But what we did specifically is to start looking at with the nurses and hiring without having to wait for the supervisor who is doing the clinical work to do the interviews and the processing. And h. R. Took control of that. And those are some of the things that we can do and to look at in the future as we start in our hiring process. One of the key t
There . Commissioner guillermo im here. Clerk thank you. And is commissioner chow on the phone by chance . Commisioner chung yes, i am and i will try for the visual connection as the phone goes on. Clerk okay. And commissioner bernal, i believe that you have smgz to say . President bernal thank you to my chigdzers and welcome to all of the members of the public who may be viewing the Health Commission meeting for tuesday, may 19th. Before we begin i wanted to let everybody know that the commissioners and i have sought to with the support of the mayor, beginning in june to meet twice a month with remote meetings. So on the first and third at a new time at 3 00 p. M. The meeting on the first tuesday of the month will include a covid19 update and a d. P. H. Update and contract items and d. P. H. Program updates. And the meeting on the thursday tuesday of the month includes covid19 updates and well focus on the General Hospital and the laguna honda related issues. So with that lets move on
And commissioner bernal, i believe that you have smgz to say . President bernal thank you to my chigdzers and welcome to all of the members of the public who may be viewing the Health Commission meeting for tuesday, may 19th. Before we begin i wanted to let everybody know that the commissioners and i have sought to with the support of the mayor, beginning in june to meet twice a month with remote meetings. So on the first and third at a new time at 3 00 p. M. The meeting on the first tuesday of the month will include a covid19 update and a d. P. H. Update and contract items and d. P. H. Program updates. And the meeting on the thursday tuesday of the month includes covid19 updates and well focus on the General Hospital and the laguna honda related issues. So with that lets move on to approval of the minutes. Clerk actually, commissioner, do you mind if i do my intro with the Public Comment line. Sure. So, hi, everybody, i am mark morewitz, the commission secretary. And were using Micros
Francisco, and a lot to be grateful know, and our staff know or at least i hope they know that theyve been part of saving lives every day. As far as ambulatory care, and just to remind you, ambulatory care includes jail care, maternal care, integrated health, and the whole person care, which brings together a number of nontraditional services which serve people experiencing homelessness across the city. So across ambulatory care, we basically deployed a huge number of staff from three of those five sections. Those three sections being primary care, Behavioral Health, and m. C. H. Which in response to the health order to limit our ambulatory care services, those three sections really stripped down their staff and their services to just the most Urgent Services being provided in staff, and in so doing, we were able to deploy 200 ambulatory care staff to the d. O. C. , and then even more to our Clinical Services that grew in response to the covid pandemic. And so so so three services real