Situations and the San Francisco general center in San Francisco, and surviving an emergency of why,vy been experienced and i have experienced chemical working on another facility where we lose the patients, and just in the unit and with that code team available. Thank you very much. I have been working for 16 years now and i take pride in this unit and take pride of this tending and just wearing the us ward 17 makes me proud and so we are ward 17. And we provide, and also the continued care that they receive in the hospital and which is just a few walks away and a few steps away next door and we have hundreds where we have close calls. And we can immediately have an imagine Response Team on site. And i have experienced a lot of close calls in other units. The experience a patient dying in front of me and the person will come, and it will take ten to 15 minutes and we have the Emergency Team and they will be in less than ten minutes or five minutes and so it is less than the survival r
Insurance through the coverage california, the exchange for the first time and these patients will be eligible for that. And of course, that is fantastic. And for these patients but as we go forward in the implementation and we know that it is going to be a challenge to sort of implement the new forms of coverage under the Affordable Care act and so i am grateful to the task force and for taking the time to develop, a report and to issue recommendations so as to insure the continuity of the care and maintenance of the high quality comprehensive services for these patients. And first we will hear from two task force members, and courtney, pearson, and the San Francisco aids foundation, and which does amazing work in San Francisco and hofmann from the Mission Neighborhood Health Center and so, we will turn it over to you. Great. So thank you, so much supervisor campos and weiner and mar, and we appreciate the opportunity to present on what took about a year, for us to pull together this
And so, with that, why dont we go ahead for the time being and file this item. So that we can file this item and a motion to file by supervisor mar . Without objection . Thank you very much. If you could call the next item. Item number two. Is a hearing on San Francisco hiv Health Reform task force. And it is recommendations to Health Insure the safe and secure transition of San Franciscos living with hiv aids into broader systems of care that become available because of the implementation of the Affordable Care act. Why dont we take a twominute break. Okay. Thank you. Clerk, if you could call item two. And item two, is a hearing on the San Francisco hiv Health Reform task force and the recommendation to help to ensure the safe and secure transition of the san franciscans living with hiv and aids into a broader system of care that become available because of the implementation of the Affordable Care act. And to discuss the recommendations. And i want to thank supervisor scott for cospo
A report and to issue recommendations so as to insure the continuity of the care and maintenance of the high quality comprehensive services for these patients. And first we will hear from two task force members, and courtney, pearson, and the San Francisco aids foundation, and which does amazing work in San Francisco and hofmann from the Mission Neighborhood Health Center and so, we will turn it over to you. Great. So thank you, so much supervisor campos and weiner and mar, and we appreciate the opportunity to present on what took about a year, for us to pull together this recommendation document and some other documents from the hiv Health Reform task force and they had to leave as did other members of the task force and so i am going to represent us and i will try to speak quickly and go through it and answer the questions if there are any. And so my name is Courtney Pearson and the San Francisco aids foundation, as you pointed out in San Francisco, our task force really focused on P
Available. Thank you very much. I have been working for 16 years now and i take pride in this unit and take pride of this tending and just wearing the us ward 17 makes me proud and so we are ward 17. And we provide, and also the continued care that they receive in the hospital and which is just a few walks away and a few steps away next door and we have hundreds where we have close calls. And we can immediately have an imagine Response Team on site. And i have experienced a lot of close calls in other units. The experience a patient dying in front of me and the person will come, and it will take ten to 15 minutes and we have the Emergency Team and they will be in less than ten minutes or five minutes and so it is less than the survival rate on it are different and compared to our unit and so we take pride on that and. And it is always on the site and in the entire day and making the plans feel confident and safe. This is great differences our paishlts value that greatly. And seeing the