By saying aye. Thank you, commissioners. There is no Public Comment request for that item. And if anyone does have Public Comment request, i am the person to see. Hand me the forms. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Grant colfax, director of health. You have your directors report in front of you. I wanted to highlight a few issue, and i think the major issue that i wanted to highlight today was, as you know, we have had major patient care incidents at laguna honda hospital, and june 18 i was joined by my yor breed and the president of the board of supervisors yee to report directly to the public and to the community about patient abuses about patient abuse issues involving 23 laguna honda residents. This misconduct does not represent who we are as the Health Department and as the San Francisco Health Network, and it will not be tolerated. Laguna honda has had a positive effect on the live of generation of san franciscans and continues to be a good place for
Move to approve and seconded. All those in favor . Okay. Thank you. We are now on item 10. Richmond playground im here for discussion and possible action to authorize the recreation and Park Department to enter into related agreements with the San Francisco Parks Alliance under the lets play s. F. Initiative for the renovation of stern grove playground and richmond playground. As we move through the initiative and ill give you the presentation, but i wanted to pause and say that these are the last two related agreements of the initiative, so its a really nice milestone to hit. So just for some quick background, as you know, lets play s. F. Is a Public Private partnership initiated to renovate San Franciscos 13 most deserving playgrounds. On november 13, 2016, the Commission Approved an agreement between the department and the Parks Alliance to accept up to 15 million for lets play s. F. And recommended that the board of supervisors approved the grant, and the board of supervisors gave
They do not anticipate labor force changes. The nurse wills continue to be employed by the hospital if they are general surgery trained. The current surgeon wills continue to practice at other area hospitals. The an thesology Group Service wills continue to be provided for other surgical procedures st. Marys. And golden gate profusion wont be providing the services at st. Marys anymore, but they have contracts with other area hospitals as well. So in conclusion, despite st. Marys low surgical volume and a general trend in having min cally invasive technology, San Francisco has a growing older Adult Population and Cardiovascular Services will be increasingly more important. And, accumulation with the residual impacts like i said before of the closure and that the complexity of patients able to be seen by the remaining cardiologists at st. Marys may be impacted. And then finally, there will be an average of, as we said, at least 35 Cardiovascular Surgery patients annually who will no lon
Do we have a second . A second. An all those in favor signify by saying aye. Thank you, commissioners. There is no Public Comment request for that item. And if anyone does have Public Comment request, i am the person to see. Hand me the forms. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Grant colfax, director of health. You have your directors report in front of you. I wanted to highlight a few issue, and i think the major issue that i wanted to highlight today was, as you know, we have had major patient care incidents at laguna honda hospital, and june 18 i was joined by my yor breed and the president of the board of supervisors yee to report directly to the public and to the community about patient abuses about patient abuse issues involving 23 laguna honda residents. This misconduct does not represent who we are as the Health Department and as the San Francisco Health Network, and it will not be tolerated. Laguna honda has had a positive effect on the live of gene
Disagreed entirely with the position and it was really unhelpful to the political process and the Peace Process which is very delicate out there. And we have seen pictures this evening of protests in gaza, peaceful protests that there is more to come to a general strike tomorrow. Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive spots in the world, the holiest site injudaism, the third most important mosque and a hugely significant place to christians. It was always proposed during the Peace Process that it would be a last stage negotiation, direct party to party and donald trump has ripped that up and walked straight in. In our own story, this will destroy any hopes that the us has of being an honest broker and the palestinians have said that tonight, you will not be up to play as an honest broker and you are throwing the whole region into international chaos. Moving on, although that is a huge story, not many of the papers have it on their front page but what most of them do haveis front page b