Totoby. Its been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. Good afternoon. The commission will please come to order and the secretary will call the roll. Clerk [roll call] the second item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the Health Commission meeting of january 8, 2019. The minutes are briefed for the commission a motion for acceptance in order. So moved. Second. Any corrections . If not, all those in favor please say aye. All opposed . And the minutes have been adopted. Next, please. Clerk item three is the directors report. Good afternoon, greg wagner acting director. On january 7 last week ou new governor gavin newson enacted the first budget of the new administration. And the budget has a number of items aimed at increasing access to health care and other Health Care Related issues. Included in the budget is a plan to reinstate the individual mandate formerly the federal mandate at the state level and expand health care for u
Good afternoon. The commission will please come to order and the secretary will call the roll. Clerk [roll call] the second item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the Health Commission meeting of january 8, 2019. The minutes are briefed for the commission a motion for acceptance in order. So moved. Second. Any corrections . If not, all those in favor please say aye. All opposed . And the minutes have been adopted. Next, please. Clerk item three is the directors report. Good afternoon, greg wagner acting director. On january 7 last week ou new governor gavin newson enacted the first budget of the new administration. And the budget has a number of items aimed at increasing access to health care and other Health Care Related issues. Included in the budget is a plan to reinstate the individual mandate formerly the federal mandate at the state level and expand health care for undocumented immigrant up to age 26 and increase the drug purchases and give the state greater leverag
Governor gavin newson enacted the first budget of the new administration. And the budget has a number of items aimed at increasing access to health care and other Health Care Related issues. Included in the budget is a plan to reinstate the individual mandate formerly the federal mandate at the state level and expand health care for undocumented immigrant up to age 26 and increase the drug purchases and give the state greater leverage in negotiating Prescription Drug costs and requesting for a singlepair governmentfunded Health Care System that is obviously going to be something that take some time but its a first step in em mroerg some significant changes and establishing california Surgeon General position charged with Health Equality in the state. The budget process will continue and were actively working through our channels to make sure we understand the proposals in the budget and have a voice in that conversation. But i think a lot of the proposals are moving in a direction that
About the platform. Good afternoon. Im max gara and ill be provide overview of the departments o proposed state and federal legislative package for 2019. We worked with leadership and content experts across the department to review the platform and identify emerging policy issues. Areas covering the platform are not too different from last year and modifications have been minor. We made updates for policy and renewed funding for chip and provided stronger supportive language on issues where the federal government has taken aggressive action on like lgbtq rights. For the 2019 state platform, we based on intersection with the departments two divisions the San Francisco Health Network and Population Health division. While issue areas are based on who we most likely reach out to to understand the impacts of a policy, those will work with subject Matter Experts across the department to evaluate and weigh in on policies. Frem, while the Population Health division is involved in prevention sm
Person whos on the ground and is in providing i. C. M. To these people arent spending 20 hours of their day doing this. Thank you maam. You can finish this sentence. , we can follow up with you. Audit mentioned that 1 of inmates were identified to have severe Mental Illness. I wanted to challenge that because they were saying that 85 inmates had Substance Abuse issues, maybe not disorders. The correlation between those two, theres something that doesnt quite add up. Supervisor safai thank you. Good afternoon im from healthway 360 one of the largest Behavioral Health providers. We appreciate the opportunity to contribute information to this report. I wanted to make a couple of comments. The report as we talked about today, is filled with information about lack of resources, housing, coordination of care like the person before me spoke about and even when talking with the sf general folks to make sure whats needed to make conservatorship work. The answer was coordination of care, resourc